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Latin America is considered the cradle of machismo. Images abound of gun-toting cowboys sleeping with a different woman every night while the mother of their children unrelentingly toils at the myriad of household labors of cooking, cleaning and ...

(PPI-OT): Peach and potato farmers in Swat will be able to increase their incomes, improve their access to markets, and fight crop diseases more effectively thanks to a new USAID-funded program conducted in partnership with the Khyber Pakhtunhwa ...

People affected by the World Bank's Kariba Dam are still struggling to regain their livelihoods Karin Retief The World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) is the most important source of development finance for the world's poorest ...

The worst crisis since the Great Depression "The world economy has entered new and precarious territory", opens the latest World Economic Outlook published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last April 2008. It describes the current financial ...

Deciding how America will nourish itself and sustain its farms would seem a top policy priority— yet as the US Farm Bill demonstrates, sustainably grown, healthy food and livable incomes for farmers and workers remain an afterthought in a process ...

Posted on 6 minutes ago ISLAMABAD (NNI): The USAID Dairy Project has spurred growth in Pakistans rural economy by helping women farmers increase their incomes and improve their livelihoods. Realizing the pivotal role rural women play in Pakistans ...

Today, the Ummah (Muslim community) represents over 20% of the world's population. However most of the Ummah exists within the bottom of the economic pyramid, lacking any real integration with the world economy, and devoid of entrepreneurial ...

Debi Mazar & Gabriele Corcos, Living On $1.50 Per Day Actress Debi Mazar and her Tuscan-born husband, Gabriele Corcos host "Extra Virgin" on the Cooking Channel. They recently participated in the Live Below The Line Challenge, a campaign that ...

Way back in 1996, I was honored to receive the Heinz Award and now Im joining other winners of that prize and the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize as signatories to a letter calling on the Obama administration to reject the Keystone XL tar ...