News headlines for “Trade, Economy, & Related Issues”, page 2081
AGRICULTURE: Desperation Over Subsidies
- Inter Press Service
As the rains start to fall in Malawi, marking the beginning of the growing season, government is continuing to implement the fertiliser and seed subsidy programme which has since made the country a bread basket in the Southern African Development Community, SADC.
BANGLADESH: Solar Advocates See A Sunshine Nation
- Inter Press Service
Good news may sometimes be hard to come by in this South Asian country, but for solar power advocates here, Bangladesh has been a sunshine nation for the last few years.
SOUTH AMERICA: Rain May Disappear from the World's Breadbasket
- Inter Press Service
South America still has vast extensions of land available for growing crops to help meet the global demand for food and biofuels. But the areas of greatest potential agricultural production -- central-southern Brazil, northern Argentina, and Paraguay -- could be left without the necessary rains.
WIKILEAKS: Africa Offers Easy Uranium
- Inter Press Service
Wikileaks cables have revealed a disturbing development in the African uranium mining industry: abysmal safety and security standards in the mines, nuclear research centres, and border customs are enabling international companies to exploit the mines and smuggle dangerous radioactive material across continents.
ARGENTINA: Affordable Housing — A Distant Dream
- Inter Press Service
While real estate investment and the number of upscale apartments for sale or rent are growing in the Argentine capital, tens of thousands of poor families are living in crowded shanty towns, and are demanding affordable housing and access to mortgage programmes.
Justice at Last for Peasant Environmentalists in Mexico
- Inter Press Service
'I feel I can breathe more deeply and look more towards the future. I feel at peace,' Mexican peasant Rodolfo Montiel told IPS, from somewhere on the west coast of the United States.
Cholera Forces Haiti to Face Sewage Dilemma
- Inter Press Service
The cholera crisis is forcing Haitian authorities to address an unpleasant and now life-threatening problem — untreated feces.
HUMAN RIGHTS: Festive season a nightmare for Kenya’s Displaced
- Inter Press Service
The Christmas season comes with joy and merrymaking in Kenya, where preparations for the festivities are underway as people crowd the street to shop for clothes and gifts. But even as the cheer spreads all around, the situation is different for the thousands of internally displaced Kenyans (IDP’s) still living in various camps.
U.N. Deplores Escalating Violence in Cote d'Ivoire
- Inter Press Service
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has reiterated his concern at the escalating violence in Cote d'Ivoire, where as many as 20 people were reportedly killed in clashes between security forces and opposition activists. '[Ban] is deeply concerned about the continuing political stalemate,' said spokesperson Farhan Haq. He called the violence a 'worrying turn'.
BRAZIL: 'Green' Schools Flourish in Porto Alegre
- Inter Press Service
Living sustainably can be learned. That is the idea championed by two schools in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, where students are learning to become environmental citizens of the new millennium.
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