Manipadma Jena
Inter Press Service
India
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Even as IUCN Congress Closes, Conservation Debate Hots Up
One of the most hotly debated issues at the recently concluded IUCN Congress in Marseilles was about designating 30 percent of the planet’s land and water surface as protected areas by 2030. This so-called ‘30X30’ debate is expected to escalate at the UN biodiversity conference in China next April. Indigenous People groups say the conservation … → Read More
IUCN Congress to Push for Stronger Regulations against ‘Imported Deforestation’
As Arti Prasad rode the Kuala Lumpur Pavilion mall escalator up to the third floor, a pair of luscious lips pouted down at her. Next to the towering and oversized lips, the vibrant red shades of lipstick on the giant screen immediately caught the 36-year-old Indian tourist’s fancy. Prasad headed straight to the cosmetic outlet … → Read More
As Climate Disaster Migration Rises, Girls Get Married Off
When 11-year-old Mitali Padhi hugged her childhood friends to say goodbye, she felt a deep-seated foreboding. Around her, the mud walls of their home had collapsed, wrecking their meagre belongings. All were mired in mud. The straw roof lay splayed 100 metres away from the house – blown away by tropical storm Phailin. The tropical … → Read More
Q&A: Achieving Sustainable Goals: “In the End it is All About People. If People Want, it Will Happen.”
Climate Change, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Environment, Featured, Global, Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), Green Economy, Headlines, Population, Projects, Regional Categories, TerraViva United Nations, Water & Sanitation Q&A: Achieving Sustainable Goals: “In the End it is All About People. If People Want, it Will Happen.” Manipadma Jena interviews the Deputy… → Read More
Q&A: As Water Scarcity Becomes the New Normal How Do We Manage This Scarce Resource?
Asia-Pacific, Development & Aid, Environment, Europe, Featured, Gender, Headlines, Health, Natural Resources, Population, Poverty & SDGs, Regional Categories, TerraViva United Nations, Water & Sanitation Q&A: As Water Scarcity Becomes the New Normal How Do We Manage This Scarce Resource? Manipadma Jena interviews the executive director of the Stockholm International Water… → Read More
When a Grass Towers over the Trees
Aid, Asia-Pacific, Climate Change, Combating Desertification and Drought, Development & Aid, Energy, Environment, Featured, Food & Agriculture, Global, Green Economy, Headlines, Natural Resources, Poverty & SDGs, Projects, Water & Sanitation When a Grass Towers over the Trees This article is part of a series of stories and op-eds launched by IPS on the occasion of the World Day… → Read More
Solar power push lights up options for India’s rural women
From cash to buy bicycles to jobs that avoid early marriage, solar mini-grid power is giving Uttar Pradesh women choices → Read More
Solar power push lights up options for India’s rural women
From cash to buy bicycles to jobs that avoid early marriage, solar mini-grid power is giving Uttar Pradesh women choices → Read More
Kenya: Plastic Recycling Aims to Cure Turtle Tummy-Ache On Kenya's Coast
Could cleaning up ocean plastic save wildlife and create jobs? → Read More
Q&A: “What Price Do We Put on Our Oceans?”
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Development & Aid, Environment, Featured, Food & Agriculture, Global, Green Economy, Headlines, Health, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, Natural Resources, Population, Poverty & SDGs, Water & Sanitation Q&A: “What Price Do We Put on Our Oceans?” IPS correspondent Manipadma Jena interviews the Executive Director of United Nations Environment ERIK… → Read More
How Distressed Rural Migrants Shelter in Cities
Flood and drought often drive the rural poor to cities. Those who are landless often stay on. Risking lives under the open sky, they hope a city’s many work opportunities will help them survive somehow. → Read More
FEATURE-With masks and flair, Indian dance aims to spur audiences to climate action
"You get goosebumps, (you're) in awe when it ends" By Manipadma Jena KOLKATA, India, Nov 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Plenty of words have been written and spoken about climate change. But residents of Kolkata and other Indian cities are being given the opportunity to get to grips with the issue in a new way: via dance and music. Ekonama: The Beginning in the End is a contemporary dance work… → Read More
Africa: The Urbanization of Malnutrition
Rapid urbanization is increasingly shifting the impacts of malnutrition from rural to urban areas. One in three stunted under-five children out of 155 million across the world now lives in cities and towns. → Read More
The Urbanisation of Malnutrition
Poor shelter, lack of sanitation and hygiene in slums, and insufficient family and community support further compound the problems of the urban poor. → Read More
The Urbanization of Malnutrition
Asia-Pacific, Combating Desertification and Drought, Featured, Food & Agriculture, Headlines, Migration & Refugees, Population, Poverty & SDGs The Urbanization of Malnutrition While Kuala Lumpur boasts islands of artificial rainforest, one of the fastest growing urbanized agglomerations stretching 2,245 sq.km around it, with 7.4 million people, has lost all ancient rainforests to… → Read More
Armed with wet sacks, India's poorest try to beat extreme heat
Facing worsening heatwaves - and with little access to power - India's poor look for low-cost ways to stay cool → Read More
Indian Journalist’s Murder: The Ultimate Form of Press Censorship?
Armed Conflicts, Asia-Pacific, Crime & Justice, Democracy, Featured, Headlines, Human Rights, Press Freedom Indian Journalist’s Murder: The Ultimate Form of Press Censorship? BHUBANESWAR, India, Sep 7 2017 (IPS) - Dauntlessly crusading against curbs on freedom of speech, fifty-five-year-old Indian journalist Gauri Lankesh was gunned down at her very doorstep in Bengaluru city on the evening… → Read More
One Earth: Why the World Needs Indigenous Communities to Steward Their Lands
Asia-Pacific, Biodiversity, Development & Aid, Education, Environment, Featured, Headlines, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Poverty & SDGs One Earth: Why the World Needs Indigenous Communities to Steward Their Lands An ethnic matriarch in India's biodiversity-rich Sikkim State in the Himalayan foothills. She is a repository of traditional knowledge on plants both for food and medicinal… → Read More
The Journey of the Humble Millet, From Tribal Farms to Dinner Tables
Native varieties of millet which can grow in drought-like conditions are making a comeback thanks to the indigenous Dognria Kondh community in Odisha and its growing traction among affluent consumers for their many health benefits. → Read More
Killer heatwaves set for dramatic rise, researchers warn
As climate change picks up pace, "for heatwaves, our options are now between bad or terrible," says one researcher By Manipadma Jena BHUBANESWAR, India, June 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly one in three people around the world is already exposed to deadly heatwaves, and that will rise to nearly half of people by 2100 even if the world moves aggressively to cut climate-changing… → Read More