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OP-ED: Rio+20 is Everyone's Conference
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, otherwise known as Rio+20, is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.
Rural Women in Peru Key to Adaptation of Seeds to Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
For ages, rural women in the Peruvian highlands have been selecting and storing seeds, ensuring their preservation. But the authorities have failed to tap into this storehouse of knowledge and experience, despite the contributions it could make to the design of effective policies for adaptation to climate change, which poses a growing threat to the women’s livelihoods.
Runaway Gold Prices Spark Major Headaches for Guyana
- Inter Press Service
Fabian George drank and generally used water from jungle rivers near his mountainside home for decades until world market prices for gold began climbing in recent years.
Native Canadians See Way of Life Under Assault
- Inter Press Service
Canada's West Coast First Nations are feeling overwhelmed by crises affecting their land rights, economic well-being and health, prompting warnings in one territorial dispute with a local energy company that the country risks a degeneration of Aboriginal-federal government relations to a level unseen in two decades.
Paprika — Spicing Up Malawi’s Economy
- Inter Press Service
As she sits down to watch the 8pm news on TV, Mercy Kamphoni from Chamtulo Village in Malawi’s Mangochi lake district looks elated. She still cannot believe that she is the new proud owner of a television set, refrigerator and radio.
Q&A: North-South Divide Looms Heavily Over Rio+20 Summit
- Inter Press Service
The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro was to a large extent derailed by a North-South divide: a battle between a coalition of rich industrial nations versus the world's developing countries led by the Group of 77.
Guatemala Halts Widely Praised Maya Biosphere Reserve Initiative
- Inter Press Service
The ambitious Cuatro Balam project for the management and conservation of the Maya Biosphere Reserve in the northern department of Petén has been put on hold after the change of government in Guatemala, say environmental and other civil society organisations.
HIV-Positive Women in Argentina Mainly Infected by Stable Partners
- Inter Press Service
The immense majority of women diagnosed with HIV in Argentina in the last two years were infected through unprotected sex with their stable partners, a new report says.
Ikea Products Made From 600-Year-Old Trees
- Inter Press Service
The home furnishing giant Ikea, founded in Sweden in 1943, is facing heavy criticism for the logging and clear-cutting of old-growth forests in the north of Russian Karelia by its wholly owned subsidiary Swedwood.
And Let the Fish be Dammed
- Inter Press Service
Khom Kieu and her family have run a bustling fish market on the outskirts of Phnom Penh for as long as she can remember. But these days, ensuring a steady supply of Cambodia’s main source of protein is harder than ever.
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