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Is a Referendum a Valid Tool for Democracy?
Roberto Savio is founder and president emeritus of the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency and publisher of Other News.By Roberto SavioROME, Jul 7 2016 (IPS)William Shakespeare would have loved to...
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New Alliance to Shore Up Food Security Launched in Africa
PAP officials attend the workshop for members of the Pan African Parliament and FAO to advance the Food and Nutrition Security Agenda. Credit: Desmond Latham/IPSBy Desmond LathamCAPE TOWN, Aug 2 2016...
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The Economic Partnership Agreement has never made much sense for Tanzania
Benjamin William Mkapa is a former President of Tanzania and the Chair of the South Centre BoardBy Benjamin W. MkapaGENEVA, Aug 16 2016 (IPS)The EPA issue has once again re-emerged when, in early July,...
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India and China, a New Era of Strategic Partners?
Over the next decade, China will be home to the world's largest elderly population, while India -- because of its demographic dividend – will require jobs for the world's largest workforce. This offers...
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Will the World’s Largest Single Market Transform Africa Fortunes?
Africa is not trading enough with Africa to boost economic development, but a new free trade area could change all that. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPSBy Busani BafanaBULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Sep 9 2016...
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Entrepreneurship, Job Creation Take Centre Stage at NEPAD Meet
NEPAD CEO Ibrahim Assane Mayaki fields questions from reporters at the Second Africa Rural Development Forum in Yaounde, Cameroon. Credit: Charles Mkoka/IPSBy Charles MkokaYAOUNDE, Cameroon, Sep 10...
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Q&A: We Won’t Go Far Until Climate Issues Are Mainstreamed in Policy
Estherine Fotabong, NEPAD Director of Programmes Implementation and Coordination, in Nairobi, Kenya during the Second Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance Forum. Credit: Charles Mkoka/IPSBy Charles...
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Pan-African Parliament Seeks Larger Role in Food Security, Policy
With better extension support, women farmers can increase productivity and food security in Africa. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPSBy Hisham AllamCAIRO, Oct 17 2016 (IPS)The Pan African Parliament (PAP)...
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Africa and the Paris Agreement: Which Way Forward?
Delegates at the Sixth Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA VI), held from Oct. 18-20, 2016 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Credit: Friday Phiri/IPSBy Friday PhiriADDIS ABABA, Oct 30...
View ArticleSocial Forum Calls for Fight Against Corruption, to Defend the Amazon
Corruption has penetrated the Amazon rainforest like an illness that infects everything, said Ruben Siqueira, coordinator of the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), during the VIII Panamazonic Social Forum...
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Towards a Global Role for ACP?
Patrick I. Gomes, Secretary-General of the ACP Group, at the 105th Session of its Council of Ministers in Brussels. Credit: Goele Geeraert/IPSBy Goele GeeraertBRUSSELS, May 7 2017 (IPS)The African,...
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The Greater Caribbean Raises Funds to Protect its Sandy Coasts
Tourists enjoy the beach in the international resort of Varadero, in western Cuba. Scientists say the erosion of sandy ecosystems in the Greater Caribbean - which have a high economic value and are a...
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Latin America Discusses How to Make Environmental Rights a Reality
Delegates from 24 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean pose next to Argentine authorities, after the opening of the seventh meeting of the negotiating committee on a regional agreement that...
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When Policies Speak the Same Language, Africa’s Trade and Investment Will Listen
Mozambique is open for business. A new suspension bridge rises on Maputo Bay. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPSBy Busani BafanaMAPUTO, Aug 17 2017 (IPS)The rising Maputo-Catembe Bridge is a hard-to-miss...
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Alliance to the Rescue of 33 Million Latin American Rural Poor
Indigenous women, such as these farmers on the outskirts of Sucre, Bolivia’s official capital, are part of a group with the most difficulties to overcome extreme poverty in Latin America, and therefore...
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Latin America Seeks New Ways to Fight Rural Poverty
Some of the academics, representatives of international organisations and former government authorities in social areas who took part in the workshop to launch the alliance to end rural poverty in...
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Parliamentarians a “Fourth Pillar” of Sustainable Development
In spite of the rising number of women entering the labour force in Bangladesh, gender disparities persist. Credit: Obaidul Arif/IPSBy Baher KamalROME/NEW DELHI, Sep 22 2017 (IPS)Investing in youth and...
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Central America Builds Interconnected Clean Energy Corridor
Workers at an electricity distribution company carry out maintenance work on the grid, on the outskirts of San Salvador. Central American countries, including El Salvador, are promoting an...
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Belt and Road Initiative Vows Green Infrastructure with Connectivity
Belt and Road Initiative Vows Green Infrastructure with ConnectivityBy Diana G MendozaMANILA, May 8 2018 (IPS)“My son in primary school did not attend a birthday celebration because it was cancelled...
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Genuine Reform Culture Lacking in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe needs urgent economic and political reforms to transform its economy amidst a growing national crisis, researchers say as more than 7 million Zimbabwean are food insecure owing to a projected...
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Opinion: From European Union to Just a Common Market
Roberto Savio, founder and president emeritus of the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency and publisher of Other News. By Roberto SavioROME, Oct 20 2015 (IPS) The success in the recent Swiss elections...
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Central America Seeks Recognition of Its Vulnerability to Climate Change
In its national contribution, Costa Rica said the sector most vulnerable to climate change is road infrastructure. This highway, which connects San José with the Caribbean coast, and which crosses the...
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Latin American Legislators, a Battering Ram in the Fight Against Hunger
A girl in traditional festive dress from Bolivia’s highlands region displays a basket of fruit during a fair in her school in central La Paz. Fruit is the foundation of the new school meal diet adopted...
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Leading Powers to Double Renewable Energy Supply by 2030
China has become the world leader in wind energy, although it is still surpassed by many European countries in terms of per capita wind power generation. Credit: Asian Development BankBy Diego Arguedas...
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Latin America to Push for Food Security Laws as a Bloc
A panel in the Sixth Forum of the Parliamentary Front Against Hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean, held Nov. 15-17. Second from the right is indigenous leader Ruth Buendía, who represented rural...
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Latin American Legislators Find New Paths to Fight Hunger
Peruvian lawmaker Jaime Delgado reads out the final declaration of the Sixth Forum of the Parliamentary Front Against Hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean, in Lima. From left to right: John...
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Private Nature Reserves in Latin America Seek a Bigger Role
The Punta Leona private reserve on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast, where the owners voluntarily protect biological diversity and use a small part of the property for ecotourism. Credit: Fabíola Ortiz/IPSBy...
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Not Yet Curtains for BRICs
Chandra Mohan is an economics and business commentator.By N Chandra MohanNEW DELHI, Nov 24 2015 (IPS) With Goldman Sachs folding up its haemorrhaging BRIC fund, is it curtains for the acronym that...
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Caribbean Biodiversity Overheated by Climate Change
A young man on the banks of lake Enriquillo on the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, which forms part of the Caribbean Biological Corridor created in 2007 by these two countries and Cuba...
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Turning to Agriculture
A woman weeds a sesame crop field in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria state. Credit: Charlton Doki/IPSBy Moyiga NduruJUBA, South Sudan, Apr 8 2016 (IPS) Facing an unprecedented economic crisis, South...
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Focusing on Future of Food: What’s Next for Global Agricultural Research?
Kwesi Atta-Krah is the Director of the CGIAR Research Program on Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics (Humidtropics) – a program led by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA).By...
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Latin America to Redouble Its Climate Efforts in New York
Deforestation, as seen in this part of Rio Branco, the northern Brazilian state of Acre, is one of the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions in Latin America. Credit: Kate Evans/Center for...
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“Together, Civil Society Has Power”
Participants in the biannual International Civil Society Week 2016, held in Bogotá, waiting for the start of one of the activities in the event that drew some 900 activists from more than 100...
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A Healthy Trading System Requires Progress and Engagement at All Levels
Roberto Azevêdo is the Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO)By Roberto AzevêdoGENEVA, Jun 10 2016 (IPS) This is a challenging time for global trade. According to the current World...
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Brexit – Perceptions and Repercussions in the Americas
Joaquín Roy By Joaquín RoyMIAMI, Jun 27 2016 (IPS) The hopes of many of those who confidently expected the British electorate to vote, by a slender margin, for the country to remain in the EU have been...
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