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FAO Chief appeals to US President-Elect to help end world hunger
More than 800 million people suffer hunger today. A crucial part of this complex problem is food production and distribution. Is it possible to increase food production in an environmentally and socially sustainable way? Can modernisation, research and investment enhance food security? Is there anything to learn from traditional knowledge? How do trade and energy policies affect the equation? And gender? Where and when is food aid really needed? Can the upswing of commodity prices be positive for some countries? How are farmers coping with climate change? IPS finds the stories behind the current food crisis to understand local and global causes of shortages and rising prices, and their long term effects.


Earth Alert: Confronting Climate Change
More and more citizens demand action to tackle this complex phenomenon.


Ashok Khosla, IUCN President-elect: To pastures


IUCN director-general Julia Morton-Lefèvre voices her views on new President, private sector and political leadership


Zoltan Dujisin reports IUCN's presidential election


Jude Chan discusses birds with Alison Stattersfield


Who are the people running for President? Ramesh Jaura reports


"Changing Oceans", a ten-year journey through the world seas


Peru's Victor Quinches explains how he has made a difference


TerraViva's Julio Godoy speaks with Meindert Browner, Independent Communication Consultant


TerraViva´s Ramesh Jaura speaks with Pamela Cox

Q&A: Money Crisis May Hit Development Assistance
Sabina Zaccaro interviews PAMELA COX from the World Bank
The global financial crisis and rising food prices are certain to impact Latin America despite the growth in recent years, says Pamela Cox, the World Bank's vice-president for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Climate Action Could Escape Financial Crisis
By Ramesh Jaura

Brazilian Ethanol Goes It Alone
By Mario Osava


Alejandro Kirk interviews Holly Dublin, IUCN Species Commission.


Zarina Geloo interviews Jeroen van der Veer, CEO of Shell
ENERGY: Governments Must Lead on Renewables, says Shell CEO
By Rahul Kumar
Royal Dutch Shell, which makes more than 310 billion dollars profit a year extracting oil and gas, mainly in third world countries, says it is up to governments rather than companies like Shell to take the lead in finding solutions for a sustainable energy future.


Brazilian President Wins IPS Award
MEDIA: Lula a "Tireless Advocate" for the Poor and Landless
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who rose from a poor childhood to lead a growing economic powerhouse that has placed the ideal of inclusive prosperity at the centre of its development policies, received the Inter Press Service (IPS) International Achievement Award 2008 Monday.


Brazilian President Wins IPS Award
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
"IPS has brought greater pluralism and diversity to the international press. For 44 years, IPS has given voice to the voiceless. IPS is more than crucial than ever in the creation of South-South dialogues and alternatives to the existing alliances," said Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

MEDIA: Lula a "Tireless Advocate" for the Poor and Landless
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who rose from a poor childhood to lead a growing economic powerhouse that has placed the ideal of inclusive prosperity at the centre of its development policies, received the Inter Press Service (IPS) International Achievement Award 2008 Monday.


Brazilian President Wins IPS Award
Mario Lubetkin
"We would like to honour you because you fought side by side with the landless and deprived, and for your efforts in initiating and supporting policies towards social inclusion and peaceful resolution of conflict, and the full exercise of basic human rights and freedoms, not only in Brazil but among sister nations in Latin America," said IPS Director General Mario Lubetkin.

MEDIA: Lula a "Tireless Advocate" for the Poor and Landless
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who rose from a poor childhood to lead a growing economic powerhouse that has placed the ideal of inclusive prosperity at the centre of its development policies, received the Inter Press Service (IPS) International Achievement Award 2008 Monday.


Brazilian President Wins IPS Award
Enrique Iglesias
"His political career is a good demonstration of the virtues of democracy," said Enrique Iglesias, secretary-general of the Ibero-American Conference, a political, cultural and economic cooperation initiative in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. "The virtue of giving the chance of becoming president of one of the biggest nations on Earth to a worker with a long history of leadership in a workers' union," said Iglesias, who gave the keynote speech at the ceremony.

MEDIA: Lula a "Tireless Advocate" for the Poor and Landless
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who rose from a poor childhood to lead a growing economic powerhouse that has placed the ideal of inclusive prosperity at the centre of its development policies, received the Inter Press Service (IPS) International Achievement Award 2008 Monday.

Kandahar braces for Taliban offensive

Taliban and NATO forces both assert that they are in control

Hard right neocons and AIPAC

Jim Lobe: The origin of the Zionist, Neocon, Christian Right alliance (Part 1 of 2)

Who funds AIPAC?

Jim Lobe of IPS on the role of AIPAC (2 of 2)


Special Report from Colombia
THE UNUSUAL WEALTH OF THE CHOCÓ
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COLOMBIA: Black Communities Organise in Country’s Poorest Region

COLOMBIA: Malaria Winning the Battle in Chocó

COLOMBIA: A Painful Pilgrimage

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ALBANIA BECKONS

Following up on the IPS case study of Albania as a nation looking for development through tourism, while also respecting ecological needs, Ilva Tare takes a look at moves to change the image of Albania. The first of a two-part video report on Albania.

Case Study: Albania - Cultural and Environmental Tourism

Kamalesh Sharma took over as new Secretary-General of the Commonwealth on April 1, 2008. But as the last Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Kampala showed, deep fault lines run through the organisation, going right down to fundamental questions about its very existence. Sanjay Suri presents a video analysis.

COMMONWEALTH-PAKISTAN: Suspended, But Not Banished

COMMONWEALTH: Waiting on Pakistan, Acting on Climate Change

COMMONWEALTH: Poverty and Climate Change in the Spotlight

 

POLITICS: Zimbabwe Holds Its Breath Over Election Results
By Ephraim Nsingo
HARARE - With more than a day having passed since polling stations for Zimbabwe's general elections closed their doors, complete official results for the ballot have yet to be released.

Q&A: "No Problems in Voting, So Why Should There Be Problems in Counting?"
Interview with Noel Kututwa

Q&A: "We Have Managed to Make the Female Agenda a Current Affairs Issue"
Interview with Luta Shaba

Another World Is Possible: World Social Forum 2008

The IPS TerraViva team of journalists from around the world covered the WSF Global Day of Action, January 26. A virtual edition of the newspaper with global background articles, exclusive interviews and opinion columns written by renowned international figures is available at: http://ipsterraviva.net/TV/wsf2008/.

TerraViva is an independent publication of IPS. This edition is produced in cooperation with the World Social Forum International Council, the support of Oxfam-Novib and with the invaluable assistance of Amarc (International Association of Community Radios) and Pulsar News Agency.

The Taliban could be changing, Azita Rafht, member of parliament for Badghes Province in Northern Afghanistan, says in an IPS interview.

AFGHANISTAN: Militancy Spreads to Northern Provinces

Afghan Divide - IPS Special Coverage

Between Civilisations -- A Dialogue. IPS puts a set of five questions to Yahya Sergio Yahe Pallavicini, Vice-President of the Comunita Religiosa Islamica, and to Shlomo Ben-Ami, Vice-President of the Toledo International Centre for Peace.

Q&A: 'People Who Work Every Day For Harmony Do Not Make Headlines'
Interview with Yahya Sergio Yahe Pallavicini


Q&A: "Religion Is The Private Sphere, Not The Public"
Interview with Shlomo Ben-Ami, former Israeli Foreign Minister

Q&A: "It Can Be Hard to Deal with Subtle Xenophobia"
Interview with Peter Schatzer, International Organisation for Migration

VENICE - With waves of opposition to tides of immigrants in Europe, Peter Schatzer has his job cut out. And seeing that the Mediterranean is the favoured route for migration into Europe, whether documented or not, he is at the forefront of presenting the human face of migration before political opposition to it.

Schatzer, director of the regional office for the Mediterranean and chief of mission in Italy and Malta of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), talked to Sanjay Suri from IPS at a meeting on the role of communication in the alliance among civilisations organised in Venice by IPS together with the IOM and the Province of Venice.

Q&A: "In Most Conflicts We Know What Needs to Be Done"
Interview with Martti Ahtisaari, Chairman of the Crisis Management Initiative

VENICE - There is hardly a trouble-shooter in the world today more trusted than Martti Ahtisaari, Chairman of the Crisis Management Initiative. Kosovo, the disputed southern province of Serbia, is the latest challenge he has taken on.

He has done this as head of the Crisis Management Initiative (CMI), an independent, non-profit organisation that works for "sustainable security" and "combines analysis, action and advocacy." The Helsinki-based organisation was founded in 2000.
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Q&A: "Where Is the Democracy in International Relations?"
Interview with Abdelwahab Derbal, head of mission of the Arab League in Brussels

VENICE - It's about the oldest dispute around, which is good enough reason to hear more on it from those who can influence a possible resolution. So when Abdelwahab Derbal, head of the mission in Brussels of the League of Arab States speaks of his anger over the Palestine issue, these may be words to listen to, whichever side of the divide (if any) you are on.

Derbal speaks to Sanjay Suri from IPS of his anger over the U.S. position in the Middle East, and of the need for dialogue – that shows some understanding of civilisation and culture issues. He himself was participating in an inter-civilisation dialogue organised in Venice last week by IPS together with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and Venice province.
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Q&A: "If It Is Globalisation, It Must Be Everybody's"
Interview with Amartya Sen, Nobel economist

LONDON - The "war on terror" is not everybody's language, nor for that matter is "globalisation", says Nobel Prize laureate Amartya Sen. Nor is anyone right to think that religious radicalism is really an Islamic problem, he says.

Such views made Sen, an Indian, a natural choice to lead the Commonwealth Commission on Respect and Understanding in its search for civil paths to peace. The group's report titled "Civil Paths to Peace" was launched in London last week.
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