In August 2012, the Seidu family had to cope with the bad harvest. Like many farming families in northern Ghana, they had to adopt the ‘one-zero-one’ strategy for the children and the ‘zero-zero-one’ strategy for themselves. ‘One’ represents a meal, ‘zero’ is no meal. So during the lean season, their four children had breakfast in the morning, nothing at midday, and a meal in the evening.
According to this OXFAM working paper, the economic inequality is rapidly increasing in the majority of countries. The wealth of the world is divided in two: almost half going to the richest one percent; the other half to the remaining 99 percent. Read the text.
Persistent Energy Ghana (PEG) is leading the movement to bring green energy, installing solar-powered micro-grids for the one million Ghanaian households that earn between $1 and $6 a day.
Political stability, effective governance and, most importantly, uninterrupted longterm commitments to mainstreaming food security and nutrition in policies are key to the reduction of hunger says this 2013 edition of FAO report on the State of Food Insecurity.
The model adopted by Ghana and Indonesia for making their industry eco-friendly will now be adopted in Himachal Pradesh which will result in the shrinking of the number of units placed under the ne
Bangladesh has been identified as one of the ‘star performers’ in the poverty reduction initiative globally as the world poverty is coming down rapidly.
