SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Financial Meltdown Prompts Return to Agriculture

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 30, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Oct 30 (IPS) – As South-east Asia feels the heal of the global financial meltdown leaders are turning to the informal sector, particularly agriculture, as a potential provider of employment. Malaysian Prime Minister [...]

ARGENTINA: Caution and Enthusiasm for Fish Farming

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Saturday, October 25, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Marcela Valente* – Tierramérica BUENOS AIRES, Oct 25 (IPS) – Fish farming is expanding in Latin America, fuelled by the demands of a global market that is facing the stagnation of commercial fishing. But some people [...]

DEVELOPMENT – CAMEROON: Sweet Deal For Bee-Keepers

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 23, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Tamfu Hanson GAROUA, Oct 23 (IPS) – Paul Mboui’s family will soon move into the attractive new bungalow he is building. Then he will rent out his present compound as a warehouse to Guiding Hope, the [...]

AGRICULTURE-MALAWI: Going Against the Grain on Subsidies

Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – Global Politics Online – IPS Saturday, September 06, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Busani Bafana LILONGWE, Sep 5 (IPS) – In each of the past three growing seasons, the family of Bernadette Banda, in Chidambo village in the central region of Malawi, has [...]

Q&A: Finding New Ways To Reach Farmers

Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Saturday, August 23, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Interview with Frances Kimmins, director of Policy and Partnership for the Research Into Use Programme PRETORIA, Aug 23  (IPS)  – When beekeepers in central and eastern Uganda got vouchers to go online at internet [...]