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Using Agriculture and Agribusiness to Bring About Industrialisation in Africa
Akinwumi Adesina
No region of the world has ever moved to industrialised economy status
without a transformation of the agricultural sector. Agriculture, which
contributes 16.2% of the GDP of Africa, and gives some form of
employment to over 60% of the population, holds the key to accelerated
growth, ...
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Poor Rural Communities in Mexico Receive a Boost to Support Themselves
Emilio Godoy
Jilder Morales, a small farmer in Mexico, looks proudly at the young
avocado trees that are already over one metre high on her ejido - or
communal - land, which already have small green fruit.
“These were little-used lands. Now the people see that they can be
worked. We seek a balance between a ...
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Who Are the Best ‘Eaters’ and How to Use Eggplants as a Toothbrush
Baher Kamal
The news is this: Japan is a global model for healthy diets and it
currently has the lowest rate of obesity among developed
countries--below four per cent. This is on the one hand. On the other,
African eggplant gorongo is often used as toothbrush.
None of this is based on any personal, ...
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Gender Equality Can Save Women’s Lives in Disasters - We must not miss the opportunity to set this right
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and Robert Glasser
Later this month, the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
will take place in Mexico. This meeting provides an important
opportunity to reboot global progress on embedding gender equality in
disaster risk management and redress deadly exclusion.
Even though the quality of ...
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Concerns Arise Over Freed Nigerian Abductees, Thousands Still Missing
Tharanga Yakupitiyage
Following the release of over 80 missing schoolgirls, human rights
groups have expressed concerns about their rights and future.
After a series of negotiations, the Government of Nigeria recently
struck a deal allowing for the release of 82 girls from Chibok in
Nigeria’s Borno state in ...
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Falling Between the Sun-Scorched Gaps: Drought Highlights Ethiopia’s IDP Dilemma
James Jeffrey
Displaced pastoralists gather around newly arrived drums of brown water
as a water truck speeds off to make further deliveries to settlements
that have sprung up along the main road running out of Gode, one of the
major urban centers in Ethiopia’s Somali region.
Looking at the drums’ ...
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World Bank fudges on inequality
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – collectively drafted and
then officially agreed to, at the highest level, by all Member States of
the United Nations in September 2015 – involves specific targets to be
achieved mainly by 2030. The Agenda seeks to “leave no-one behind” and
claims roots ...
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African Migrants Bought and Sold Openly in ‘Slave Markets’ in Libya
Baher Kamal
Hundreds of migrants along North African migration routes are being
bought and sold openly in modern day ‘slave markets’ in Libya, survivors
have told the United Nations migration agency, which warned that these
reports “can be added to a long list of outrages” in the country. The
International ...
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Poverty Drives Wages Down
Erik Larsson
H&M has made promises to raise wage levels and increase worker
influence in the garment factories of Cambodia. The validity of these
supposed ambitions is being criticized. ”What have they actually
achieved? Nothing!”, says Sajsa Beslik, sustainibility banker at Swedish
Nordea.
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Equal Rights in Education: The Case of Bahrain, Colombia, Sri Lanka
IPS World Desk
The role of education in enhancing equality of citizenship rights and
diversity within communities affected by inter-communal civil strife
will be top on the agenda of a meeting in Geneva on May 12.
Experts with extensive knowledge in the field of education, particularly
in post-conflict ...
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When It Comes to Fracking, Argentina Dreams Big
Daniel Gutman
Since a US Energy Information Administration (EIA) report announced in
2011 that Argentina had some of the world’s biggest shale oil and gas
reserves, the dream of prosperity has been on the minds of many people
in this South American nation where nearly a third of the population
lives in ...
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Global Climate Policy in an Uncertain State of Flux
Martin Khor
Global climate change policy is in a state of flux, with all other
countries waiting for the United States to decide whether to leave or
remain in the Paris Agreement.
That treaty, adopted by 195 countries with great fanfare in December
2015 and came into force in November 2016, symbolizes the ...
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Time to Find 'Magic Formula' to Stop Hatreds - Baku Forum
Rahul Kumar
It is time to find that “magic formula” that will encourage people to
stop conflicts, the rise of violent extremism and hatreds, and live
together in peace, urged a United Nations senior official at the end of a
UN-backed conference on intercultural dialogue in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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In France, ‘Us and Them’ Amid Elections
A. D. McKenzie
Launched in the run-up to the French presidential elections, a daring
exhibition in Paris is sparking dialogue about the origins and nature of
racism, both in Europe and elsewhere.
Titled “Nous et les Autres: Des Préjugés aux Racisme” (Us and Them: From
Prejudice to Racism), the exhibition’s aim ...
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Mega-Projects Have Magnified Corruption in Brazil
Mario Osava
It cannot be categorically stated that corruption has increased in the
country in recent years, because there is no objective information from
earlier periods to compare with, according to Manoel Galdino, executive
director of Transparency Brazil.
But recent revelations give the impression of a ...
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Friday, May 12, 2017
The Week With IPS 5/12/2017
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