As Rwanda marks the 30th anniversary of the Genocide, authorities emphasize the need to provide survivors with strategies to help them navigate their healing journey, build resilience, and recreate a better future for the children and generations to come ipsnews.net/2024/04/30-yea…

Farmers in Pakistan & India are adopting regenerative farming techniques, as part of a global push for more sustainable agriculture. This involves improving soil health by minimizing chemicals, adding organic material & diversifying crops & livestock ipsnews.net/2024/03/farmer…

Conventional farming in India has taken a toll on agricultural land. Around 30% of the land in India is degraded & more than 50% of India’s farmers are debt-ridden & often seek alternatives outside of agriculture, or tragically, take their own lives ipsnews.net/2024/03/farmer…

Vietnam has emerged as an attractive investment destination for international investors seeking alternatives to China. To diversify, they want at least one branch elsewhere and as a neighboring country, Vietnam seems to be the perfect alternative ipsnews.net/2024/04/tensio…

Accurate and credible voter registration is important to ensure trust in the electoral process. Voter lists represent consolidated, official lists of all persons eligible to vote. But they are often costly and complicated endeavors, write UN experts ipsnews.net/2024/04/civil-…

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The khazan ecosystem has played an intrinsic role in alleviating the effects of soil salinization, conserving biodiversity, and ensuring food security for over 3500 years. But this sustainable agriculture practice is facing increasing pressure ipsnews.net/2024/04/can-pr…

With the anticipated further increase in food demand in Asia accompanied by increased environmental awareness, Asian countries will need to accelerate their move into harnessing technologies & implementing policies which support sustainable food systems ipsnews.net/2024/04/food-s…

Growing up in a khazan ecosystem, the traditional agricultural practice followed in the south-western Indian state of Goa, Elsa Fernandes would love sitting in a koddo, a woven bamboo structure for storing paddy ipsnews.net/2024/04/can-pr…

Regenerative Farming - Changing agricultural practices is the most straightforward way to benefit the planet’s health while ensuring food security in the long term, says Francesco Carnevale Zampaolo, 🌾 SRI-2030 🌏 ipsnews.net/2024/03/farmer…

Unfortunately, a rivalry that should not exist and did not exist historically between China and India is being stoked by the media and some policy makers, especially in the West, ✍️Palitha Kohona, former Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the UN & to China ipsnews.net/2024/04/china-…

Carbon dioxide emission taxes, prices and markets have been touted as key to stopping global heating. However, carbon markets have failed mainly because they favour the rich and powerful, writes Jomo Kwame Sundaram ipsnews.net/2024/04/carbon…

The Climate Alarm Is Ringing – It’s Time to Stop Silencing It ift.tt/yWz1QXP

Accurate and credible voter registration is important to ensure trust in the electoral process. Voter lists represent consolidated, official lists of all persons eligible to vote. But they are often costly and complicated endeavors, write UN experts ipsnews.net/2024/04/civil-…

IPCI 2024: Oslo Commitment Protects Sexual and Reproductive Rights Across All Contexts ift.tt/L7tp58N

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The release of the Oppenheimer film, and the wave of media attention surrounding it, creates an opportunity to spark public attention on the risks of nuclear weapons & invite new audiences to get involved in the movement to abolish them, says ICAN ipsnews.net/2024/04/when-t…

The khazan ecosystem has played an intrinsic role in alleviating the effects of soil salinization, conserving biodiversity, and ensuring food security for over 3500 years. But this sustainable agriculture practice is facing increasing pressure ipsnews.net/2024/04/can-pr…

India, Indonesia and China do not focus on climate only as a problem. Their leaders Modi, Xi and Prabowo see climate as an opportunity. Taking climate action makes economic, not only ecological, sense, ✍️Erik Solheim ipsnews.net/2024/04/follow…

At Église Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris.

Saying goodbye et merci to Caribbean literary giant Maryse Condé. Rest in power.