By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Sep 7 2020 (IPS) – The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the lives of millions of people worldwide, accounted for over 869,000 deaths, destabilised the global economy and triggered a marked rise in poverty and hunger… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Jul 16 2020 (IPS) – The United Nations has been relentlessly pursuing a highly-ambitious blueprint for the sustainable future of humanity –harking back to the adoption of a new global economic agenda by the General… Continue Reading
By Tyler Durden – Zero Hedge (*) Roughly half a million Chinese living in Hebei Province (not Hubei, Hebei), a province in northern China that surrounds Beijing (which operates as an independent ‘national city’) are under lockdown, but in an… Continue Reading
by DEVNET JAPAN – OTHERNEWS 05-3-ON-ENGLISH This is the reason why 5 years conservable “LIFE BREAD” was born We would like to help the children suffering from the starvation in the world”. This is the reason why Mr. Terushige Nakazato,… Continue Reading
By Karen McVeigh – The Guardian Coronavirus highlights weakness of food and health systems, as Global Nutrition Report finds one in nine of world’s population is hungry An overhaul of the world’s food and health systems is needed to tackle… Continue Reading
By Farhana Haque Rahman* ROME, Dec 2019 (IPS) – By any measure this has been a devastating year: fires across the Amazon, the Arctic and beyond; floods and drought in Africa; rising temperatures, carbon emissions and sea levels; accelerating loss of… Continue Reading
By Peter Adwok NYABA * It isn’t possible that people who’ve been struggling together against a common enemy for nearly six decades could turn in the end against themselves as if nothing strategic bounded them together. Many people in the… Continue Reading
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram* KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb 19 2019 (IPS) – For two centuries, all too many discussions about hunger and resource scarcity has been haunted by the ghost of Parson Thomas Malthus. Malthus warned that rising populations would… Continue Reading
Opinion of William Lambers* – Newsweek The government shutdown over President Trump’s border wall has ended, but not before causing a hunger crisis. Federal workers who lost income from the shutdown had to turn to foodbanks for support. Kate Leone… Continue Reading
William Mebane* The first generic goods were those based on a single model for everyone. The black model T Ford is the classic example. One model mass-produced permitted an enormous economy of scale and reduction of costs never before… Continue Reading
