Women Farmers in the Developing World
In Sub-Saharan Africa, 80% of agricultural workers are women. According to the World Bank,They raise 90% of the food, but receive only 10% of credit extended for agricultural loans.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, 80% of agricultural workers are women. According to the World Bank,They raise 90% of the food, but receive only 10% of credit extended for agricultural loans.
medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding 76 projects using innovative ideas from chewing gum to chocolate to improve global health, and that of ...
nytimes.com | Jeffrey Marlow | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green
For decades, governments and non-governmental organizations have been trying to bring electricity to the world's poorest and most isolated regions thr...
AP | Posted 09.18.2009 | World
LONDON — Giving contraceptives to people in developing countries could help fight climate change by slowing population growth, experts said Frid...
cnn.com | Mark Tutton for CNN | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
In the developing world millions of people struggle to operate machinery, read from a blackboard, or just see the world around them, because they don'...
washingtonpost.com | Emily Wax  | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
Developing nations' urgent need for more energy has become a central issue this year as developed countries -- including the United States -- push for...
Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
Cervical cancer is diagnosed in about 500,000 women every year. About 250,000 will die. But it is largely preventable.
Randall Soderquist | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
A tangible link was created by the leaders of the G-20 in London between what was promised in the past and what should be done in the future.
Darius Mans | Posted 09.21.2009 | World
While the world looks for innovative solutions to global poverty, it is clear that trade must be part of the answer.
Dennis Whittle | Posted 09.18.2009 | World
The standard of living in developing countries has increased much faster than growth in income because of innovation, which has driven down the cost of goods and services.
John Sauer | Posted 09.08.2009 | World
More than 25 diseases are caused by inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene creating nearly 10% of the global public health burden, killing more than 2 million people a year.
Jim Luce | Posted 08.28.2009 | World
EngenderHealth focuses on far more than fistula repair and prevention. They are dedicated to improving the overall health and well-being of people in the countries where they work.
Laurence Leamer | Posted 08.19.2009 | World
God left Kathmandu long ago, and I know this journey of mine will be far different from what I had anticipated.
AFP | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Friday called for a global fund worth $100 billion a year to tackle climate change in the developing world, ahead ...
Lola Olley | Posted 07.30.2009 | World
Cassava can be made into everything from flour to tapioca and could create a positive domino effect in Africa with economic empowerment leading to a reduced need for foreign food aid.
Linda Adams | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green
Global warming affects our entire planet but it has a disproportionate impact on people in poor communities, especially women.
Bob Harris | Posted 07.16.2009 | Business
Metaphorically, micro lending is not giving someone a fish, and it's not teaching someone to fish; it's helping a fisherman patch a hole in his rowboat so he can get on with life.
Laurence Leamer | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration's Peace Corps transition document is a blueprint of what must be done and how it can be done.
Laurence Leamer | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics
The Peace Corps is a broken bureaucracy. It has lost its way. It is a shell of what it once was. And in the most important moment in Peace Corps history since the Kennedy years, it is unready and unwell.
Matthew Kavanagh | Posted 06.06.2009 | World
Yesterday President Obama announced a new "Global Health Initiative." Should we all be excited?
Huffington Post Contributor | Dr. Daniel J. Carucci | Posted 05.08.2009 | World
In places where there are few cars, where roads remain unpaved, where basic infrastructure services such as clean water and electricity are scant, mob...
Michael T. Klare | Posted 04.19.2009 | World
While it's perhaps too early to specify where outbreaks of "regime-threatening instability" might occur as a result of the economic crisis, many developing nations are at significant risk.
Al Jazeera English | Posted 04.09.2009 | World
Developing countries may face a financing gap of $270bn to $700bn this year as trade income dwindles and rich nations vie for capital to deal with a g...
Michel D. Kazatchkine | Posted 03.01.2009 | Business
Among the contrite bankers and shell-shocked politicians in Davos, I wish to remind them that if the world's rich think they have never had it so bad, the developing world is having it worse.
Kofi Annan | Posted 02.27.2009 | World
At Davos, our business and political leaders must show they understand that our world has shifted for good and that we have to change with it or perish.
Dan Silverstein | Posted 11.10.2009 | World