15/10/2019
15 October 2016, Accra/Abuja (FAO)* – The celebration of the International Day of Rural Women provides the opportunity to celebrate rural women’s important roles in food production and processing, food security and nutrition and reduction of rural poverty.

Women transmit knowledge (Photo: ©FAO)
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15/10/2019
15 October 2019 (UN Women)* — This year on International Day of Rural Women (15 October), we’re celebrating the vital role that rural women play in climate action with a spotlight on “Rural women and girls building resilience” theme.

Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
As the world faces an increasingly critical need to address climate change, the important impact that rural women and girls have on building resilience is undeniable.
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15/10/2019
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Oct 11 2019 (IPS)* – Politics is a dodgy game, maybe even more so if you represent political views based on a moral approach. When the charismatic Justin Trudeau, son of a cosmopolitan liberal who served as Canada´s Prime Minister for 16 years, in 2015 was elected Prime Minister it was within a global political climate different from what it is today.
Barack Obama was in the White House, Angela Merkel served her third period as German Chancellor, and the UK Government had not yet announced its country’s withdrawal from the EU.
Nevertheless, Russia had three months before Trudeau´s election annexed Crimea, while Viktor Orbán´s Hungarian government the month before initiated the construction of a 4 metres high barrier along its nation´s eastern and southern borders to keep immigrants out.
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15/10/2019
We Need Solidarity to Face Future Stress
Stress can produce conflict. For example shortages of food or water can lead to regional wars. But wars only make original problems worse. Today the world is facing a number of severe problems, and solidarity will be needed to minimize the suffering with which we and future generations are threatened.

John Scales Avery
The problems include shortages of fresh water, rising temperatures due to climate change, and food insecurity.
These problems are especially acute in the Middle East, a region that is already torn by bitter conflicts and wars.
In order to successfully minimize suffering, it is vital that peace be achieved in the Middle East. Let us look at some of the problems in detail:
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