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New York: The United Nations independent expert on the right to food cautioned today that smallholder farmers face the risk of exploitation under contract farming arrangements with processing or marketing companies, and recommended mechanisms that could ensure that such agreements are fairer.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved funds totaling USD 124.3 million for ground-breaking ‘Centers of Excellence’ in higher education in Mali, Uganda and Rwanda.

New York: International efforts to mitigate climate change are insufficient to meet the goal of keeping global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, a United Nations report warned today, just a month before a major conference on the issue is held in Durban, South Africa.

New York: New laws are urgently needed in Paraguay to protect the rights of minorities, in particular women and indigenous people, a top United Nations human rights official has said, calling on the Government to scale up its efforts to stop discrimination and injustice towards these groups.

New York: As the world prepares to welcome its 7 billionth inhabitant next week, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the need to achieve a future for the entire human family that is free of nuclear weapons.

The outcome of a byelection indicates the direction in which the political wind is blowing. Haryana’s Hisar Lok Sabha byelection outcome is no exception. The humiliating defeat of the Congress whose candidate lost even his security deposit has interrupted the ruling party’s spree of electoral victories since the 2004 Lok Sabha polls. It has shown that the Congress is losing ground in the state.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Groupism in the Kerala unit of the Congress has hit a new low with the dominant A group and Vishala I group led respectively by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala bitterly bargaining over the sharing of the posts of chairpersons of various corporations.

NEW DELHI: The ambitious Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline project is going to be a reality as India along with the other three participating countries, will be signing the Gas Sales Price Agreement (GSPA) in November this year. India has been vigorously pursuing the price issue with Turkmenistan for the last ten months and so far eight bilateral meetings have been held.

New York: The United Nations on Sunday renewed its commitment to help the people of Libya build a brighter future as the transitional authorities declared the full liberation of the North African nation, more than eight months after the popular uprising began.

New York: Representatives from 90 countries and delegates from dozens of international organizations and civil society gathered in the capital of the Republic of Korea today for a series of United Nations-backed meetings on improving the management of geospatial information technologies and using them to tackle global socio-economic challenges.