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30.08.2004 A locally designed pot that keeps food fresher for longer is helping Sudanese farmers sell more fruit and vegetables and make bigger profits.

24.08.2004 South Africa’s export fruit sector is buoyant, but the industry is offering less permanent employment and using more temporary contract labour. While some workers have relatively regular employment at reasonable pay, many others – particularly women – are poorly paid and have no job security.

18.08.2004 With worries over declining fertility in some parts of the world, and growing anxiety over the spread of HIV/AIDS cutting life expectancy in parts of Africa, little attention is being paid to pressures of population growth in many countries. These include massive consumers of energy and materials such as the US, and developing countries such as India, whose population is set to overtake that of China.

12.08.2004 It is now 20 years since the 1984 Ethiopia famine and Live Aid. Yet Ethiopia remains steeped in poverty. Save the Children - the largest active NGO in Ethiopia - believes it is crucial to ask why so little has changed and to point to possible long-term solutions.

04.08.2004 Poverty forces more than two million Guatemalan children into work, many from as young as seven years old. Mayra Kelita is one of them. She spoke to War on Want's John Coventry about an innovative new project, which, with the support of War on Want, is giving children like her the education they need.