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## Pages
- [CIVICUS LENS: PERSPECTIVES FOR A CHANGING WORLD \-](https://www.ipsnews.net/civicus-lens-perspectives-for-a-changing-world-2/)
- [अमेरिका द्वारा परीक्षणों की पुनः शुरुआत अन्य परमाणु शक्तियों से संभावित खतरों को उकसा सकती है](https://www.ipsnews.net/अमेरिका-द्वारा-परीक्षणों/)
- [क्या परमाणु परीक्षण अब भी भविष्य के लिए एक खतरा बने हुए हैं — जब दुनिया हिरोशिमा और नागासाकी की 80वीं वर्षगांठ मना रही है?](https://www.ipsnews.net/क्या-परमाणु-परीक्षण-अब-भी/)
- [अमेरिका ने मलेशिया के साथ रणनीतिक नागरिक परमाणु समझौता किया – जबकि एशिया\-प्रशांत क्षेत्र में सुरक्षा गठबंधन की योजना बना रहा है।](https://www.ipsnews.net/अमेरिका-ने-मलेशिया-के-साथ/)
- [\<center\>“This is not a country where you can dream\.” \<br\>\<br\>\<em\>  The shattered hopes of the Haitian people\.\</em\>\</center\>](https://www.ipsnews.net/not-country-can-dream-shattered-hopes-haitian-people/)

## Posts
- [Creating Opportunities to Nurture Agripreneurship among Africa’s Youth](https://www.ipsnews.net/2020/03/creating-opportunities-nurture-agripreneurship-among-africas-youth/): \<i\>\<b\>With the increasing domestic and regional demand for diversified and processed food, there is a high opportunity to develop the agrifood business in Africa as well as a need to create opportunities to nurture agripreneurship among the continent's growing ranks of unemployed youth\.\</b\>\</i\>
- [Africa's Youth Scholars Harvest Ideas on the Business of Agriculture](https://www.ipsnews.net/2020/04/africas-youth-scholars-harvest-ideas-business-agriculture/): \<b\>\<i\>80 young African scholars are tackling the business of agriculture through the innovativeness and freshness that comes with youth — while obtaining their masters or doctoral degrees in the process\.\</b\>\</i\>
- [The Future Pacific Island Children Want](https://www.ipsnews.net/2020/03/future-pacific-island-children-want/)
- [COVID\-19: Zimbabwe’s Smallholder Farmers Step into the Food Supply Gap](https://www.ipsnews.net/2020/05/covid-19-zimbabwes-smallholder-farmers-step-food-supply-gap/): \<b\>\<i\>As small scale farmers step up growing more horticulture produce, there are concerns that demand will  outstrip supply as these farmers lack the sophisticated and well\-financed production lines of commercial farmers\. 
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- [COVID\-19 \- China Tells World Health Assembly They Did their Best](https://www.ipsnews.net/2020/05/166708/): \<b\>\<i\>At the World Health Assembly, Chinese President Xi Jinping said they did their “best to stem cross\-border transmission” of COVID\-19 and help other nations\.\</i\>\</b\>

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