News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 916
LATIN AMERICA: Community-Based Social Innovation Wins Prizes
- Inter Press Service
Community control of public funds will no longer be just an effective local idea, put into practice by social activists and community leaders in a town in southern Brazil. Now that it has won first prize in ECLAC's fifth Social Innovation Contest, it is likely to spread throughout Latin America.
DEVELOPMENT: Hunger Summit Passes Toothless Declaration
- Inter Press Service
Fears that the United Nations World Food Security Summit would fail to deliver effective measures to defeat hunger were borne out Monday when world leaders and government officials approved a toothless declaration on the first day.
DEVELOPMENT: Farmers Not Invited to Food Summit?
- Inter Press Service
World farmers are not part of the official delegations at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) food summit on food security that opened here Monday. But they came anyhow to express their views, since, they say, it is their communities that are most impacted by the food crisis.
ENERGY-DENMARK: Samsø Island, Beyond Fantasy
- Inter Press Service
On the Danish island of Samsø, a model of energy self-sufficiency, even cow's milk helps reduce emissions of climate changing gases.
WATER-ZAMBIA: Worries Ahead of Flood Season
- Inter Press Service
The Zambezi is home to the fishing community on Mbeta Island. But after the river rose and swallowed their homes last year, they have learned to fear it as well.
DEVELOPMENT: Looking to the Past to Feed the Future
- Inter Press Service
As wheat rust threatened crops in the 1950s, a global effort to breed resistant wheat varieties led to 117 million hectares of cropland being protected from the deadly fungi and ensured the food security of 60 to 120 million rural households.
ECONOMY-US: 'Green' Jobs Should Be Black and Brown Too
- Inter Press Service
The Barack Obama administration's drive to promote a 'green' economy is not working in the interest of poor people in the United States, especially those who belong to minority communities, according to a new study by a leading think tank.
BRAZIL: Deforestation Down 45 Percent
- Inter Press Service
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon jungle was reduced more than expected between August 2008 and July 2009 - 45 percent compared to the previous 12 months, the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) reported.
UGANDA: 'Mount Elgon Eviction Has Reduced Us to Beggars'*
- Inter Press Service
'We have been reduced to begging from relatives and to migrate to urban areas where life is not safe. We were living in the mountain for more than 200 years. Transferring us means burying us, completely. We want to stay in our area and develop.'
DEVELOPMENT: More Promises to Eat
- Inter Press Service
Next week's United Nations food security summit is in danger of becoming a massive missed opportunity, experts and non-governmental organisations say. Fears mount that top leaders will not show up, and binding new commitments will not materialise.
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