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.
LA Times | Edmund Sanders | Posted 10.25.2009 | Green
Africa is already home to one-third of the 42 million people worldwide uprooted by ethnic slaughter, despots and war. But experts say climate change i...
Dan Silverstein | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business
It's in our own self-interest to jump start agricultural development with the goal of creating markets for ourselves.
Pres. Paul Kagame | Posted 09.27.2009 | World
It is information technology, above all else, that has lifted the shroud of silence that, at one time, obscured the heinous acts of a few deranged men. The world has fewer excuses for intolerance and poverty.
Ray Chambers | Posted 08.24.2009 | World
For HIV, women account for 60 percent of the disease in sub-Saharan Africa and transmission from mothers to newborns is a significant, yet solvable problem.
World Vision | Posted 08.09.2009 | World
We know that when the G8 chooses to act it can make a real impact on child deaths. But this summit's failure on aid for Africa suggests a real low point.
Nandini Oomman | Posted 07.31.2009 | World
When it comes to HIV/AIDS and gender, big donors talk the talk but sometimes stumble when it comes time to walk the walk in the prevention, treatment and care programs that they fund.
John Tedstrom | Posted 07.26.2009 | World
In our work around the world, we have witnessed firsthand the destructive power of this disease. Although its pain invades every aspect of family life and human emotion, the toll is also economic.
AP | ALESSANDRA RIZZO | Posted 07.20.2009 | World
ROME — The global financial meltdown has pushed the ranks of the world's hungry to a record 1 billion, a grim milestone that poses a threat to p...
Edward J. Murray | Posted 05.25.2009 | World
"BedNets Now!" calls to people around the world to listen to the mandates of their own faith and to see the simple fact that ending malaria in the poorest regions of the world is "do-able" and should be done.
Cord Jefferson | Posted 01.11.2009 | Living
Among Manhattan's middle-aged black men, the HIV/AIDS rates are comparable to those of sub-Saharan Africa. Blacks in the United States are at a flash point in their struggle with AIDS.
AP | ANNA JOHNSON and PAUL SCHEMM | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt — Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe entered an African summit accompanied by the meeting's host Monday, a sign that African...
Michelle Haimoff | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business
Sachs described our current economic situation as "intentional" and pointed fingers at Alan Greenspan, The Fed, and an unpopular and weak administration that is "financing a war that nobody supports."
Dan Silverstein | Posted 11.10.2009 | World