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Beyond Climate Colonialism and Food Imperialism to Earth Democracy and Food Freedom
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service 6 Sep 2023 1. Mother Earth…
The Truth about Microfinance
Tags: Finance Anita Rathod learned about microfinance from a neighbour a decade ago. She joined a group…
Africa’s Continental Dilemma—Geopolitics at a Time of Upheaval By Otobong Inieke
Aside from the relatively positive developments in terms of economic cooperation through China-Africa relations, much of…
Disappearing Fish Spell Hard Times for Women in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s ballooning informal sector has, in recent years, spawned the over-exploitation of the country’s natural resources,…
Unregulated Agrochemicals Harm Health of Rural Residents in Central America
By Edgardo Ayala – IPS / Globetrotter In his green cornfield, Salvadoran farmer Medardo Pérez set…
The geopolitics of debt in Africa
Massive exposure of some African economies to Chinese-owned debt is making it difficult for Beijing to…
Fighting back again monetary colonialism by Farida Nabourema
An excellent animated short film that perfectly explains the monetary colonialism of the CFA franc realized…
Where Coffee Is Grown but Rarely Consumed, a Shift
In Uganda, people grow coffee to export but rarely consume it themselves. Now a push to…
As Europe eyes Africa’s gas reserves, environmentalists sound the alarm by Ashoka Mukpo
In the wake of an energy crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, European countries are…
Central African Republic launches Bitcoin hub
The Central African Republic has launched its government-backed cryptocurrency hub called Sango – named after one…
Why Paul Kagame is a benevolent imperial agent By John Ouma
Writing in The Times recently, noted British print journalist Wrong referred to Rwandan president Paul Kagame…
Famine in East Africa – hundreds of thousands threatened
By G. Dunkel posted on May 26, 2022 Food prices are soaring worldwide. Not just prices of wheat and…
The Hell of Migrants By José Blanco
The hell of migration today is extreme. Women and men, often with children, or children without…
Are We Building Our Own Prison Thinking We Own the Key to Our Cell?
Like frogs in water that keeps getting hotter and hotter, we are nearing the boiling point. …
Arundhati Roy on America’s Fiery, Brutal Impotence
The US leaves Afghanistan humiliated, but now faces bigger worries, from social polarisation to environmental collapse,…
Here Is Why We Are Boycotting the UN Food Systems Summit
Social movements and scientists are staying out of the UN summit because it represents big agribusiness…
The Empires of Gates- Interview with Vandana Shiva, Ph.D.
In this interview with Dr. Joseph Mercola, Vandana Shiva says, “… if In the next decade,…
Egypt-Ethiopia: Difficult Negotiations
The latest round of Egyptian-Ethiopian negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), brokered by former…
Food Insecurity and the Prospects for Emerging Players
With the inauguration of Joe Biden, and the coming post-Covid era being bound to create uncertain…
Cry of the Himalaya: 4 Decades of Disasters, 4 Decades of Warning
I am a child of the Ganga Himalaya , nourished materially and spiritually by Dev Bhoomi,…
To Farm or Not to Farm in Developing Countries
The week has been an interesting one full of global challenges, with escalating violence propagated by…
Haitians intensify struggle against president Jovenel Moïse
Haitian citizens, social movements, trade unions and opposition political parties are demanding the resignation of president…
480,000 killed by extreme weather this century – Analysis
Almost half a million people have died in natural disasters linked to extreme weather events in…