Jun 25th, 2009
Sabina Zaccaro and Miren Gutierrez* interview EMILE FRISON, Bioversity International Director-General
Emile Frison
ROME, Jun 19 (IPS) – The promotion of biodiversity in agriculture needs political backing, Emile Frison, Bioversity International Director-General tells IPS in an interview. This kind of biodiversity can provide food security and promote health, he says.
Bioversity International is the largest international research organisation [...]
Jun 24th, 2009
Miren Gutierrez interviews ELISA MUÑOZ, project coordinator of The Global Report on Women in the News Media
Eliza Munoz
Credit:International Women’s Media Foundation
ROME, Jun 24 (IPS) – For the first time in 15 years, an organisation, the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF), is attempting to measure the progress, or lack of progress, of women in media organisations [...]
Jun 18th, 2009
Sabina Zaccaro and Miren Gutierrez* interview three ‘GUARDIANS OF DIVERSITY’
Panagiotis Sainatoudis
Credit:Bioversity International
ROME, Jun 17 (IPS) – How many varieties of date palm or melon exist? And why should we care? IPS spoke to three ‘Guardians of Diversity’ so named by Bioversity International for their contribution to conservation.Bioversity International is the largest international research organisation dedicated [...]
Jun 12th, 2009
Africa IPS MDG3 Seminar – May 2009
IPS Africa brought together in Johannesburg, South Africa, senior reporters and gender organisations to review the existing editorial challenges of covering current issues from a gender perspective. I was one of the presenters talking about IPS’s Gender Wire, with which IPS wants to redress the huge imbalance that exists today in [...]
Jun 4th, 2009
Mario de Queiroz and Miren Gutierrez* interview MARIO SOARES, former Portuguese President
Mario Soares
LISBON, Jun 3 (IPS) – Global house prices are diving further, unemployment in the 16 countries using the euro increased in April to its highest level in almost ten years, and Eurozone Gross Domestic Product is expected to shrink by 1.9 percent during [...]
From 1990 until 1996, Miren Gutiérrez was based in Hong Kong as an EFE correspondent, covering the South East Asia, Korea and Pacific region, in charge of a group of contributors. She then spent five years in Panama in charge of the business section of La Prensa, the Panamanian newspaper of record. Miren coordinated or edited investigative business stories. Several of these stories were award-winners. A year of free-lancing in New York followed, writing for different media, such as El País, The Nation, UPI, Gatopardo and Offshore Alert. She covered the Sep. 11 attacks for El País. She joined IPS as Editor in chief in January 2003. She published her first novel in 2007.