Issue Post January 21, 2020 As policy makers call for building capacity for food system transformation, who is listening? Suresh Babu Overcoming the obstacles that stand in the way of meeting SDG2.
Read MoreColorized scanning electron micrograph of MERS virus particles (yellow) both budding and attached to the surface of infected VERO E6 cells (blue). Credit: NIAID By Ifeanyi NsoforABUJA, Jan 21 2020 (IPS) The coronavirus outbreak — which began in Wuhan, China, and causes a pneumonia-like illness — is raging across Asia, infecting close […]
Read MoreMaria Evangeline Tenorio Sarmiento struggles to wade through ankle-deep mud and debris to reach her house that’s been inundated with thick sludge.
Read MoreHuman greed and ignorance know no bounds. Nor do they know boundaries. Across Asia tigers are routinely killed so their parts can be used in traditional Chinese medicine. Meanwhile in Africa a similar fate can befall the continent’s lions. To wit: 16 lions were recently butchered by poachers in South […]
Read MoreBy Cathryn Clüver AshbrookCAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan 20 2020 (IPS) The digital revolution arrived late at the heart of ministries of foreign affairs across the Western world. Ministries latched on to social media around the time of Tahrir Square and Iran’s 2009 Green Revolution, beguiled by a vision of the technology […]
Read MoreBadan Meteorologi, Klimatologi, dan Geofisika (BMKG) memprakirakan sejumlah wilayah di Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, dan Bekasi (Jabodetabek) diguyur hujan pada Selasa (21/1). Berdasarkan prakiraan cuaca yang dirilis BMKG …
Read MoreKapuspenkum Kejagung menjelaskan mengatakan pihaknya temukan dugaan penyelewengan terkait kasus Jiwasraya
Read MoreSource: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Country: Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Kenya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, Yemen “This … situation … threatens the food security of the entire subregion. FAO is activating fast-track mechanisms that will allow us to move […]
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