Oportunidades: Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Reducing Poverty

 
A new approach to lessen poverty provides families with cash grants.
According to the Oportunidades program in Mexico, if families agree to keep children in schools,  attend required medical checkups, and attend workshops on how to stay healthy, the government will supply the funds to do so. This programs success is raising the amount of students [...]

Aquaponics- A Sustainable Solution

A loop system approach to sustainable living. Aquaponics could change how many countries suffering from poverty and facing water and food shortages could tangibly grow crops, purify water, and raise fish.
            The concept is relatively simple, Growing Power an organization that teaches sustainable farming techniques including AquaPonics explains, “By using gravity as a transport, water [...]

Does global sustainability require population control?

In order to create a sustainable world, some experts say that population control must take center stage. “Most natural scientists agree our growing numbers and our unchecked impact on the natural environment move us inexorably toward global calamities of unthinkable severity,” said John Feeney in an article for BBC News. Although the impact of overpopulation [...]

Caterpillars send Liberia into state of emergency

The Ravenous Caterpillar has invaded Liberia. According to CNN, “Tens of million of worm-like larvae have appeared in the northern part of the country where they are destroying green crops like cabbage and collard greens and contaminating the water supply.” These worms are causing people to flee their homes in fear, because of the lack [...]

Obama lifts restriction on foreign aid

On January 23 President Obama signed a measure that will lift the Bush administration’s block on funding to foreign assistance programs that provide education on abortion to woman, a move that could have a big impact on international poverty programs. According to a post on the White House website, this Reagan era policy referred to [...]