Has COVID-19 Reversed Progress for India’s Small Tea Growers?
4 Mei 2020 Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentAn Indigenous woman worker harvesting the tender leaves in a tea farm in Unakoti district of Tripura State before the coronavirus lockdown. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS By Stella PaulUNAKOTI, India, May 4 2020 (IPS) As the sun sets over the hills, Prafulla Debbarma, a small tea grower in Dhanbilash village in […]
Read MoreUNHCR condemns violence against Malian refugees in Burkina Faso
Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentCountries: Burkina Faso, Mali Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Violence against Malian refugees, reportedly by security forces in the Mentao camp, left at least 32 people injured. The camp is in Burkina Faso’s volatile Sahel region and hosts 6,500 refugees.
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By saving nature (or what’s left of it) we’ll be saving ourselves
Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentFor great numbers of people, especially those living in overpopulated urban areas where only the odd parks serve as small patches of greenery, nature is something out there somewhere. Many city dwellers have come to see nature, if they ever think about it at all, as an amorphous entity of […]
Read MoreHow to avoid the global food safety crisis? (Caixin)
3 Mei 2020 Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentMay 1, 2020 In the News Global How to avoid the global food safety crisis? (Caixin) Food Safety Food Systems Food Security Caixin (China) published a news report on COVID19’s impact on food safety. The article quoted Senior Research Fellow, David Laborde, who said policies, such as export restrictions, are based on panic purchases and will cause […]
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Wishnutama pastikan industri pariwisata dan ekonomi kreatif mendapat insentif pajak
Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentSebagai upaya untuk menjaga keberlangsungan industri pariwisata agar tetap laju di tengah pandemi.
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Banjir landa sejumlah kabupaten di Sulteng
Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentKepala Badan Penanggulangan Bencana Daerah Provinsi Sulawesi Tengah, Bartholomeus Tandigala membenarkan dalam beberapa hari terakhir terjadi bencana banjir dan longsor melanda sejumlah kabupaten di provinsi …
Read MoreUS Air Force sends B-1 bombers back to Guam on temporary deployment
Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentJust a few weeks after the US Air Force ended its 16-year Continuous Bomber Presence in Guam, its B-1 bombers are back on the Pacific island. The temporary deployment program is designed to keep Washington’s adversaries guessing about what US firepower will be where and when.
Read MoreFlamingos flock to a locked-down Mumbai
Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentThe humans may be in lockdown in India, but tens of thousands of flamingos are making the most of the peace and quiet.
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UN launches $136 million emergency appeal for impact of COVID-19 in South Africa
Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentCountry: South Africa Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs This appeal targets 9.9 million vulnerable people facing COVID-19-related risks in areas such as health, water, sanitation, food security and gender-based violence.
Read MoreFEATURE-‘Emergency’ for millions as coronavirus severs remittance lifeline (Reuters)
Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentApr 30, 2020 In the News Egypt FEATURE-‘Emergency’ for millions as coronavirus severs remittance lifeline (Reuters) Trade Poverty Reuters published an article on migrants in the Middle East who have been hit hard with the COVID-19 spread. IFPRI states that Egypt is bracing for a triple whammy: a collapse in tourism and falling […]
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