DEVELOPMENT: Farmers Not Invited to Food Summit? By Sabina ZaccaroROME - World farmers are not part of the official delegations at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) food summit on food security that opened here Monday. But they came anyhow to express their views, since, they say, it is their communities that are most impacted by the food crisis. MORE >>
JAPAN: Obama Visit Hailed, But Left Crucial Questions Unanswered Analysis by Catherine MakinoTOKYO - Setting foot on the Land of Cherry Blossom over the weekend, U.S. President Barack Obama waxed nostalgic, recalling his first visit to Japan as a young boy, when his mother brought him there. MORE >>
FILM: Challenging 500 Years of Globalisation By Lucy KomisarNEW YORK - To end poverty, you have to know how it began - with globalisation. No, not the 20th century variety engendered by multinationals and their friends at the IMF, World Bank and WTO. They just codified practices that kept developing countries poor. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT: Looking to the Past to Feed the Future By Matthew BergerWASHINGTON - As wheat rust threatened crops in the 1950s, a global effort to breed resistant wheat varieties led to 117 million hectares of cropland being protected from the deadly fungi and ensured the food security of 60 to 120 million rural households. MORE >>
RIGHTS: U.S., Somalia Still Opt Out of Children's Treaty By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS - When the U.N. children's agency (UNICEF) commemorates the 20th anniversary of its landmark international treaty protecting the rights of children next week, there will be two countries skipping the celebrations: the United States and Somalia. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT: More Promises to Eat By Paul VirgoROME - Next week's United Nations food security summit is in danger of becoming a massive missed opportunity, experts and non-governmental organisations say. Fears mount that top leaders will not show up, and binding new commitments will not materialise. MORE >>
U.S.: Increasingly Isolated in Key Regions Analysis by Jim Lobe*WASHINGTON - More than a year after his election, President Barack Obama appears to be dashing hopes both in the Arab world and in Latin America that he would bring major changes in U.S. policy toward their respective regions. MORE >>
CLIMATE CHANGE: Signs and Portents of a Hostile New World By Stephen LeahyMÉRIDA, Mexico - Lawrence Amos travelled from the Arctic at the top of the world to the tropical middle to recite in a soft voice the ongoing destruction of his home by climate change. MORE >>
Q&A: Inclusive Sex Education Needed in African Schools By Suzanne Hoeksema interviews AKINYI M. OCHOLLA, Chair of Minority Women in ActionUNITED NATIONS - With the exception of South Africa, most African countries criminalise same-sex relationships with imprisonment, while incidents of violence against gay women and men are poorly investigated and rarely taken to court. MORE >>
WEST AFRICA: Helping Pirates to Plunder the Oceans By Hilaire AvrilPARIS - West Africa is one of the world’s regions most affected by pirate fishers. Illegal, unreported or unregulated fishing has been devastating local livelihoods and ecosystems for decades. National fisheries management authorities are often helpless to protect their maritime resources. MORE >>
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