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Model Contract to Help Protect Developing Countries From ‘Land Grabs’
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Dic 05 (IPS) - When the Korean company Daewoo attempted to acquire half the arable land of Madagascar for free, it unleashed a tsunami of investor interest in agricultural land, popularised as the 'land grab'.
Indonesia’s New President Puts Rainforests Before Palm Oil Plantations
- Inter Press Service
JAKARTA, Dic 05 (IPS) - Last week, Indonesia's new president, Joko Widodo, ordered the country's Ministry of Environment and Forestry to review the licenses of all companies that have converted peatlands to oil palm plantations.
World Bank Calls for Development Policy “Redesign” around Human Behaviour
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 04 (IPS) - The World Bank has taken an unusual but highly visible step away from traditional economics, encouraging policymakers and development implementers to place far more emphasis on research into local human behaviour when drawing up plans and projects.
U.N.'s 17 Sustainable Development Goals Remain Intact
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 04 (IPS) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has refused to jettison any of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by an Open Working Group of member states: goals aimed at launching the U.N.'s new post-2015 development agenda through 2030.
Iraqi Kurds Seek Greater Balance between Ankara and Baghdad
- Inter Press Service
ERBIL, Dic 04 (IPS) - After a period of frostiness, Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Turkey seem intent on mending ties, as each of the parties show signs of needing the other.
Q&A: Why Kyoto’s Clean Development Mechanism is at a Crossroads
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Dic 04 (IPS) - The U.N. mechanism for supporting carbon emissions projects in developing countries – the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) – is in crisis as a result of a dramatic slump in the prices being paid for carbon credits.
OPINION: To Conserve Arctic Species, Take Action in Africa
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Dic 04 (IPS) - So great are the contrasts between the frozen empty expanses of the far north and Africa's baking deserts, steamy rain forests and savannahs that any direct connections between the two seem far-fetched - if they indeed exist at all.
OPINION: The Suicide of Europe
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Dic 04 (IPS) - The fact that in a referendum Switzerland has taken a path that goes in the opposite direction from that of Europe is an unusual fact which calls for reflection, especially because Switzerland has taken a much more progressive path, while we all were accustomed to see it as a very conservative country.
Climate and Post-2015 Development Agenda Talks Share the Same Path
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Dic 04 (IPS) - The international community's post-2015 development agenda will depend, in key aspects, on whether the delegates of 195 countries meeting now at the climate summit in the Peruvian capital reach an agreement to reduce global warming, since climate change affects all human activity.
Climate Finance Flowing, But for Many, the Well Remains Dry
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Dic 04 (IPS) - For more than 10 years, Mildred Crawford has been "a voice in the wilderness" crying out on behalf of rural women in agriculture.
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