News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1796
ZAMBIA-AGRICULTURE: FOOD SHORTAGE SPARKS UNREST
- Inter Press Service
LUSAKA, Dic 29 (IPS) - RIOT POLICE HAVE BEEN DEPLOYED IN THE STREETS OF TWO MAJOR TOWNS IN NORTHERN ZAMBIA, WHERE A SEVERE GRAIN SHORTAGE HAS CAUSED PANIC AMONG RESIDENTS.
COMMODITIES-COFFEE: Return of Retention Scheme Jolts Market
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Dic 23 (IPS) - Coffee futures hit turbulent trading this week after Latin American coffee producers announced that they are to restart withholding exports in order to raise prices.
COMMODITIES-METALS: Mixed Week's Trading For Base Metals
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Dic 23 (IPS) - Base metals had a mixed week with copper losing ground although regaining some of its poise before the close of the Christmas break. Aluminium tried to forge ahead and register gains but slipped at the end.
AGRICULTURE-THIRD WORLD: Flower Trade Boom Threatened by Oversupply
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Dic 21 (IPS) - Even as the harvesting, sorting and packing of millions of carnations and roses is reaching fever pitch in many Third World countries, storm clouds in the form of a slump in prices due to oversupply are looming over the new export cash crop.
SOUTHERN AFRICA-FOOD: DONORS RESPOND TO MOZAMBIQUE APPEAL
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Dic 21 (IPS) - THE U.N. WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME (WFP) HAS COMMENDED DONORS FOR ACTING PROMPTLY TO COVER A FOOD DEFICIT IN WAR-BATTERED MOZAMBIQUE.
COMMODITIES-GRAINS: Shortage Could Send Oilseed Prices Spiralling
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Dic 17 (IPS) - A developing shortage of oilseeds and oilseed animal feed ingredients could lead to sharply higher prices, warned officials.
COMMODITIES-COPPER: Red Metal Price Hits Five-Year High
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Dic 16 (IPS) - Copper briefly crashed over the 3,000 dollars a tonne mark for three-month metal Friday before edging back but still closed in a buoyant mood. This five-and-a-half year high is highly bullish for the red metal.
COMMODITIES-COFFEE: Price Hits Floor Before Reversing Slide
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Dic 16 (IPS) - Coffee continued its nose dive until mid- week when talk that Brazil is to recommend that export retention be re-introduced and a feeling that the commodity had hit its floor reversed the slide.
AGRICULTURE: Bangladesh's Rice Farmers Try New Ways to Boost Income
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Nov 25 (IPS) - The uninterrupted views across Bangladesh's flat and glinting rice fields, thought to comprise about one third of the country's land mass, could soon be a thing of the past.
AGRICULTURE-NORWAY: Rural Regions Rebel Against EU Membership
- Inter Press Service
OSLO, Nov 25 (IPS) - Perched on the prow of his fishing boat filleting herrings for customers, Fred Bratlie says he fears an invasion of foreign trawlers if Norway joins the European Union in next week's referendum.
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