Karina Boeckmann

Berlim, Alemanha, 6/6/2012, (IPS) – A degradação da terra ameaça todos os seres vivos que povoam o planeta, incluídos os humanos.

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By Amantha Perera

COLOMBO, Jun 5, 2012 (IPS) – When it comes to expressing the threat to food security posed by changing climate patterns and extreme weather events in Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) does not mince its words.

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By Karina Boeckmann

BERLIN, Jun 4, 2012 (IPS) – Land degradation poses a threat to all life on Earth including humanity. To stop the enormous loss of life-giving land, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is pushing for a sustainable development goal of Zero Net Land Degradation (ZNLD) to be adopted at the upcoming Conference on Sustainable Development, known as Rio+20, in Brazil.

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By Kanis Dursin

JAKARTA, May 31, 2012 (IPS) – Misradi, a 58-year-old farmer from the Jelok neighborhood in Pacitan, East Java, some 524 kilometres east of Jakarta, has found a way to reduce his monthly expenses by 30 percent: instead of buying produce from the local market, he and his family now harvest most of their vegetables from their own yard.

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Busani Bafana interviews SAMEER DOSSANI, ActionAid International advocacy coordinator

BULAWAYO, May 31, 2012 (IPS) – It is vitally important that governments and civil society organisations start transitioning to a more sustainable global food system in order to achieve lasting development.

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Rousbeh Legatis interviews MOHAMED BÉAVOGUI of the International Fund for Agricultural Development

UNITED NATIONS, May 30, 2012 (IPS) – As Africa’s Sahel region faces a new food crisis, smallholder famers hold the key to making future development policies sustainable. Continue Reading

By Claire Ngozo

LILONGWE, May 29, 2012 (IPS) – As she sits down to watch the 8pm news on TV, Mercy Kamphoni from Chamtulo Village in Malawi’s Mangochi lake district looks elated. She still cannot believe that she is the new proud owner of a television set, refrigerator and radio.

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By Mariela Jara

LIMA, May 29, 2012 (IPS) – For ages, rural women in the Peruvian highlands have been selecting and storing seeds, ensuring their preservation. But the authorities have failed to tap into this storehouse of knowledge and experience, despite the contributions it could make to the design of effective policies for adaptation to climate change, which poses a growing threat to the women’s livelihoods. Continue Reading

Por Fabiana Frayssinet

RÍO DE JANEIRO, 29 may (IPS) – El veto parcial de la presidenta Dilma Rousseff a la polémica reforma forestal de Brasil contraría los intereses “más arcaicos del latifundio”, pero determina la victoria del sector productivo por sobre el desarrollo sustentable, afirman ecologistas.

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Amantha Perera

Colombo, Sri Lanka, 21/5/2012, (IPS) – O ano passado foi repleto de extremos para a pequena aldeia de Verugal, no Sri Lanka. Primeiro foram as inundações, depois a seca; tudo conspirou contra uma boa colheita de arroz.

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