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Agribusiness trade modernization initiative advances with new project name, CovantisDec 4, 2019 10:40 AM ET Dec 4, 2019 - GENEVA,– The founding members (ADM, Bunge, Cargill, COFCO International, Louis Dreyfus Company and Glencore Agriculture) of the industry-wide initiative to modernize global trade operations have announced its new project name: Covantis. The initiative also launched a new website, www.covantis.io, which explains the initiative’s vision to connect the agri-industry via an independent and trusted digital platform to enable post-trade efficiency for all participants. Covantis will also be the name of the digital. Read More |
Tradition and Technology Take Centre Stage at BCFN Food ForumDec 3, 2019 9:10 PM ET Dec 3, 2019 - By Cecilia Russell Credit: Busani Bafana / IPS MILAN, Italy, Dec 3 2019 (IPS) – A coffee producer will receive a cent and a half from a $2.50 cup of coffee. This one stark fact stood out as scientists, researchers, activists and grappled with solutions for change in food and nutrition practises, which would benefit the greater community. While the solutions are many – slow food to artificial. Read More |
African Development Bank launches digital tool to help African youth learn to codeDec 3, 2019 8:50 PM ET Dec 3, 2019 - By PRESS RELEASE Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, Dec 3 2019 – The African Development Bank and technology firm Microsoft today launched the ‘Coding for Employment’ digital training platform, an online tool to provide digital skills to African youth, wherever they are across the continent. The platform, launched at the 2019 African Economic Conference in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, aims to promote a continuous learning culture among young people and build their. Read More |
http://www.ipsnews.net/2019/12/african-development-bank-launches-digital-tool-help-african-youth-learn-code/Dec 3, 2019 8:40 PM ET Dec 3, 2019 - By PRESS RELEASE Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, Dec 3 2019 – The African Development Bank and technology firm Microsoft today launched the ‘Coding for Employment’ digital training platform, an online tool to provide digital skills to African youth, wherever they are across the continent. The platform, launched at the 2019 African Economic Conference in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, aims to promote a continuous learning culture among young people and build. Read More |
How to Take Your Home Based Business to the Next LevelDec 3, 2019 1:15 PM ET Dec 3, 2019 - You started your home based business all those years ago simply because you were tired of the traditional 9-to-5 and you want to be your own boss. Since then, your venture has gone from strength to strength, and you are now on the cusp of taking it to the next level. The big question is, what do you do when it’s time to make this step up? How do you. Read More |
Care for Economic Development, Then Care for Food Nutrition, Food Researcher Tells Africa’s PoliticiansDec 2, 2019 2:15 PM ET Dec 2, 2019 - By Busani Bafana Inter Press Service (IPS) journalist Busani Bafana sat down with Busi Maziya-Dixon, a Senior Food and Nutrition Scientist at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) ahead of the 10th International Forum on Food and Nutrition. Maziya-Dixon warns there is no country which will achieve economic development with an undernourished population. Dr. Busi Maziya Dixon, Food Scientist, IITA. Credit: Busani Bafana / IPS MILAN, Italy, Dec 2. Read More |
Biofortified Food, a Business Boost for Smallholder FarmersDec 2, 2019 2:00 PM ET Dec 2, 2019 - By Busani Bafana Biofortified Orange Vitamin A maize developed by Harvestplus is helping fight micronutrient deficiency in children. Credit, Busani Bafana / IPS BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Dec 2 2019 (IPS) – A start-up in Zimbabwe is producing high nutrition foods using biofortified crops in a bid to fight micronutrient deficiency. Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) leads to night blindness, illness and death from childhood infections. In Zimbabwe, 36 percent of. Read More |
Hola, Madrid! African Development Bank takes the continent’s climate agenda to COP25 in SpainNov 30, 2019 1:10 PM ET Nov 30, 2019 - By PRESS RELEASE The Bank is playing a leading role in guiding progress on climate change on the continent. The Bank has doubled its total climate change commitment to $25 billion between 2020 and 2025. ABIDJAN, Cote d’Ivoire, Nov 30 2019 – The African Development Bank will on Monday kick off a campaign to plead the continent’s case at the world’s leading climate change conference. The 25th session of. Read More |
Running from the Storm – How Bangladesh’s Climate Migrants are Becoming Food SecureNov 28, 2019 8:15 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - By Rafiqul Islam Ruma Begum and her husband collect pumpkins from their vegetable field. Credit: Rafiqul Islam/IPS BHOLA, Bangladesh, Nov 28 2019 (IPS) – It was almost a decade ago when Ruma Begum and her family left their home in Bangladesh’s coastal Tazumuddin upazila or sub-district and travelled some 50 km away to start a new life. They had been driven out of their home by an extreme. Read More |
Why Prosecuting Human Traffickers in Nigeria is Nothing More than a MirageNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - By Tobore Ovuorie In this Voices from the Global South podcast, IPS takes you to Lagos, Nigeria, to understand why the country’s national agency against trafficking has only successfully prosecuted 339 offenders over the last 13 years. This is part of a series of features from across the globe on human trafficking. IPS coverage is supported by the Riana Group. LAGOS, Nigeria, Sep 9 2019 (IPS) – Hope Oyiza,. Read More |
When the Search for Jobs Ends in SlaveryNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - By Wambi Michael This is part of a series of features from across the globe on human trafficking. IPS coverage is supported by the Riana Group. Zubedah Nakitende was trafficked as salve labour to a family in Jordon. Her employer gave her a cream for her injured fingers that was actually turned out to be acid. Nakitende’s fingers were so badly injured they had to be amputated. Credit: Wambi. Read More |
Wall Street can Free the World’s 40 Million Modern-Day SlavesNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - By James Reinl This is part of a series of features from across the globe on human trafficking. IPS coverage is supported by the Riana Group. A 2009 study found that almost 250,000 children worked in auto repair stores, brick klins, as domestic labourers, and as carpet weavers and sozni embroiderers in Jammu and Kashmir. A new study says financiers in Wall Street, the City of London and other. Read More |
Human Trafficking – It Came Disguised as the Opportunity of a LifetimeNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - By Miriam Gathigah This is part of a series of features from across the globe on human trafficking. IPS coverage is supported by the Riana Group. When she was 20 Mary Njambi was trafficked to Saudi Arabia where she thought she would obtain work as a well-paid domestic worker. Instead, she was treated as a slave and was sexually abused. Credit: Miriam Gathigah/IPS NAIROBI, Oct 3 2019 (IPS) –. Read More |
For Some in Kashmir Marriage Equates to Sexual SlaveryNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - By Umar Manzoor Shah This is part of a series of features from across the globe on human trafficking. IPS coverage is supported by the Riana Group. In Kashmir there are thousands of young women who were sold in their teens by their parents to older men, and now living lives governed by restrictions which many equate to imprisonment. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS SRINAGAR, Oct 11 2019 (IPS) – Haseena. Read More |
Booming eSports and Video Gaming Already Bigger Than Music and Movie Industries CombinedNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - LOS ANGELES,The eSports and video gaming market have already outpaced their contemporaries in the film and music businesses with what is expected to be a $300 billion annual industry by 2025. So, it seems ironic that investors are slow to catch on. That’s according to portfolio managers who think the industry has plenty of room to run. Especially since it continues to grow in the double digits. Or more simply put, market. Read More |
How to ‘Fix the Business of Food’ and Save the PlanetNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - By Samira Sadeque From farm to fork, the global food industry needs to start aligning their operations with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs. Pictured here, a farmer tends to vegetables in a greenhouse in Antigua, where a climate-smart agricultural initiative seeks to improve farm productivity. Credit: Desmond Brown/IPS UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 2019 (IPS) – With up to one billion undernourished people around the world,. Read More |
Ghana’s Grains and Groundnuts Face Increasing Contamination Amid Increasing TemperaturesNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - By Albert Oppong-Ansah Adwoa Frimpomaah, a smallholder farmer from Ghana’s Bono East Region, and her two children have been eating maize likely infected by aflatoxins. Credit: Albert Oppong-Ansah/IPS BONO EAST REGION, Ghana , Oct 16 2019 (IPS) – Adwoa Frimpomaah, a smallholder farmer from Dandwa, a farming community in Nkoranza, in Ghana’s Bono East Region, and her two children have been consuming insect-infested and discoloured grains produced from. Read More |
The AI-driven Approach to App DevelopmentNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - Having an app is not too different from having a website in some regards these days – it’s become a basic requirement for operating properly in some markets. The old saying “if you don’t have a website for your business, it might not exist” is now just as valid for apps in these circles. And while it can seem that developing one yourself is not that big of a deal,. Read More |
HR Trends of 2019 That Will Continue in 2020Nov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - It wasn’t too long ago that experts in the industry were predicting big changes that are about to hit the Human Resources sector in 2019, and now, we are already looking forward to 2020. Did all the predictions from last year come true? Probably not, but some of them did, and the coming year is going to build on them, while introducing some trends that were expected to be seen. Read More |
— Hidden in Plain Sight: Sex Trafficking in CanadaNov 28, 2019 12:10 PM ET Nov 28, 2019 - By Nadia Kanji This is part of a series of features from across the globe on human trafficking. IPS coverage is supported by the Riana Group. Seventy-two percent of trafficked victims in Canada are under the age of 25, and 51 percent of trafficked girls have been involved in the child welfare system. Courtesy: Dmitry Schemelev/Unsplash UNITED NATIONS, Jul 25 2019 (IPS) – Human trafficking for sexual exploitation has. Read More |