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By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS | 16 February 2024 (IDN) — The Group of 77 (G77) is the largest single coalition of developing countries comprising over two-thirds of the 193-member United Nations.…
Di Farai Shawn Matiashe
HARARE | 9 febbraio 2024 (IDN) – Quando i raccolti di Peter Mangana sono stati colpiti dalla siccità più di dieci anni fa, si è sentito depresso e ha faticato a sfamare la sua famiglia nel villaggio di Bhasikiti a Mwenezi, nello Zimbabwe meridionale.…
By Jutta Wolf
BERLIN | 15 February 2024 (IDN) — The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has projected a delay until 2062 to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the region, missing the schedule by a staggering 32 years.…
Na Farai Shawn Matiashe
HARARE | 9 Februari 2024 (IDN) — Wakati mimea ya Peter Mangana ilipokumbwa na ukame zaidi ya muongo mmoja uliopita, alihisi msongo wa mawazo na alitatizika kulisha familia yake katika kijiji cha Bhasikiti huko Mwenezi, kusini mwa Zimbabwe.…
By Rita Joshi
BONN | SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan | 12 February 2024 (IDN) — Unsustainable human activities are jeopardizing the future of migratory species, warns the first-ever State of the World’s Migratory Species report. Migratory species play an essential role in maintaining the world’s ecosystems, and provide vital benefits, by pollinating plants, transporting key nutrients, preying on pests, and helping to store carbon.…
By Rafiqul Islam Montu
SHYAMNAGAR (SATKHIRA), Bangladesh | 11 February 2024 (IDN) — The new variety of paddy is ‘Charulata’. This paddy is salinity tolerant, can withstand normal winds, and yields well without fertilisers and pesticides. It is effortless to save seeds from this paddy. Due to these reasons, ‘Charulata’ paddy is spreading quickly from one farmer to another. Many people are now planting this paddy. This rice seed has been extended to many more farmers in the last season. The yield has also been good. (P31) Japanese | Korean | Portuguese | Spanish | Turkish…
By Farai Shawn Matiashe
HARARE | 9 February 2024 (IDN) — When Peter Mangana’s crops were hit by drought over a decade ago, he felt depressed. He struggled to feed his family in Bhasikiti village in Mwenezi, southern Zimbabwe. (P30) Arabic | Italian | Japanese | Swahili…
By Jaya Ramachandran
GENEVA | 8 February 2024 (IDN) — Nearly ten months since the escalation of the conflict in Sudan in April 2023, the humanitarian situation in the country has deteriorated, resulting in the world’s largest displacement crisis. The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on the international community to meet 100% of the US$ 178 million funding request for 2024 to meet the health needs of the highly vulnerable target population.…
By Jutta Wolf
BERLIN | 4 February 2024 (IDN) — Socio-economic benefits of between 5 to 10 trillion USD a year are expected to emerge from the transformation of food systems around the world, says a new global policy report produced by leading economists and scientists of the Food System Economics Commission (FSEC).…
By Douglas Okwatch
This report is a slightly modified version of the original published in the January 2024 issue of Africa Renewal.
NAIROBI | 3 February 2024 (IDN) — Digital technologies will be vital in addressing the three persistent problems in Africa’s agricultural industry—inefficiency, exclusivity, and unsustainability, according to the 2023 Africa Agriculture Status Report, “Empowering Africa’s Food Systems for the Future”.…
