Fruit Corso Festival of Netherlands

Every year on the 11th, 12th and 13th of September, a festival called "Fruit Corso (means Fruit Parade)" is held to celebrate the harvest of the Fruit of all the Villages in Tiel, Netherlands. It includes...

Rural Reporter Exposes Gender Bias In Wages

Despite laboring as hard as men do, women farm workers in rural India are paid only half of what men are. A community-produced video by a rural reporter - Rohini Pawar in Maharashtra, India exposes this...

Indians Fighting Inflation with Technology

Despite the global economic downturn, many countries of the South are seeing rapid economic growth. That can have a down side: inflation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation). Inflation can be caused by...

Women Break Male Bastion, Take Up Farming

A group of women have broken into what has been a male bastion for centuries: Farming.  An IndiaUnheard community reporter Varsha tells us how women are turning food growers in a remote village of India’s...

The deep unrest on the fringe of global society

The unprecedented global recession which raised its ugly head in mid 2007 has not ceased to push the markets all over the world with constant uneasiness and internal tensions. The fiscal crisis of the...

Tales from the Missionary Hut: Floating Gardens

How do you find food when your village is flooded?  According to the NGO Hands on Help for the Poor, you can simply grow it on the flood water.  These floating farms can also be created on ponds and...

Açaí Berry Brazil’s Boon

A formerly obscure berry from the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has become a global marketing success. The açaí berry – a dark, small fruit similar in appearance to blueberries – has surged in ...

Clashes Continued in Nigeria, 40 killed in Nasarawa clash

New Delhi: Starting clashes wetbeen herds men and farmers to security forces and members of a fundamentalist Islamic secttions continued in Nigeria. In current clashes death toll from a clash between security...

Food Fight

Today, The Center For Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)released the conclusions of a study conducted since 1990 in which scientists kept a record of the number of outbreaks and the number of reported...

GMO Cotton May Be Future Source Of Protein

Cotton may be a source of protein for humans in the future, as genetic modification has produced plants free of toxins.Cotton is grown by more than 20 million farmers, and accounts for around 40% of the fiber used for making clothing, and its seeds are an excellent source of...

Flirting with the 5 crore people of Bundelkhand : Sanjay Pandey

During five year drought in Bundelkhand, nearly fifty percent of its total population had migrated to metro cities like Delhi & Mumbai. In search of their livelihoods they left  their  homes with bag and baggage . According to Sanjay Pandey ,national convener of...

Australia gets the hump, overrun by thousands of camels!

Gud day, its not the dingo's nor the roos that are causing mayhem down near the billy bongs, but damn ugly beasts that spit and chew on the cud. Its the same old problem of introducing a species, that just...

Inhofe Slams EPA Over Proposed Endangerment Finding

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said today that the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed endangerment finding will unleash a torrent of regulations that will destroy jobs, harm consumers, and extend the agency's...

Reporting on the next war to break in Africa?

"If the river goes down, there will be war"  Nyangatom warrior, Ethiopia. If you want to report on the next war in Africa, then go to the south east of  Ethiopia.  Make...

China's War Against Weather

"In Shandong Province, cannon troops of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had fired more  than 300 rockets and 2,000 artillery shells in cloud-seeding operations by 5 p.m. Sunday. The operations brought an...

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