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Genetic Flight of Nature's Jewels from Chile
- Inter Press Service
Cactus, bushes, flowers and countless other plants are taken out of Chile daily to be studied, improved, marketed and patented. Due to the lack of regulations, the country can only stand by and watch them go.
DEVELOPMENT: Economic Boom Worsened De-industrialisation of LDCs
- Inter Press Service
Least developed countries (LDCs) in Africa did not use the commodity export boom of the mid-2000s to diversify their economies from commodity dependence to manufacturing value-added products. Significantly, the agricultural sector has also not benefited, with the result that LDC reliance on imported food has become even worse.
THAILAND: Photo Exhibition Captures Human Rights — And Wrongs
- Inter Press Service
In this fast-developing South-east Asian country where dizzying neon signboards and glass-clad skyscrapers have been overshadowed only by a colourful political battle, a group of young photographers are hoping their work behind the lens can bring human rights back into focus.
Senegal Debates Merits of Ban on Begging
- Inter Press Service
The face of the Senegalese capital has been transformed. The beggars who swarmed along its major arteries, especially in the centre of the city, its biggest markets and independence square are gone.
MADAGASCAR: New Livelihoods to Protect A River's Life
- Inter Press Service
The Nosivolo River has the greatest concentration of freshwater fish species in Madagascar. Strengthening protection of the river's biodiversity has involved transforming the livelihoods of local people.
CAMBODIA: EU Trade Access Goes A Long Way
- Inter Press Service
When the European Union slapped crippling anti-dumping duties on Vietnamese bicycle exports in 2006, one factory’s Taiwan- based owner decided enough was enough.
DEVELOPMENT: Africa's Time Has Come
- Inter Press Service
There is the image of Africa, worse than Africa is, and then there is Africa, so much of it better than its image. It's the continent whose time has come, African civil society leaders emphasised at a meeting in Madrid Thursday.
Promise of Elbow Room for Malawi Students
- Inter Press Service
The announcement that 5,000 new classrooms will be built thanks to a $140 million World Bank loan would come as welcome news at the Chitowo Primary School - if only the children sitting on the floors, perched on doors and in windows, even taking lessons in the dust beneath trees in the yard could hear it.
Hope and Pessimism Converge in Cancún
- Inter Press Service
On Nov. 29, the 190-member Conference of Parties (COP) will flock to the Moon Palace Hotel, an all-inclusive luxury coastal resort in Cancún, Mexico, to discuss governments' progress on climate change.
Colombia Tests Forage Crops Against Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
Colombia, with 24 million head of cattle, is showcasing two advances towards reducing the 13 percent of climate-changing gas emissions attributed to livestock production around the world.
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