News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 941
ZIMBABWE: Small-Scale Farmers Gearing Up to Take Cotton Buyers on
- Inter Press Service
Zimbabweans like to believe that there is strength in numbers, which is the idea behind a local non-governmental organisation’s attempt to organise small-scale rural cotton farmers in cotton producer associations.
POLITICS: U.N. Summit on Climate Change Under Fire
- Inter Press Service
A much-ballyhooed U.N. summit on climate change, scheduled to take place on Sep. 22 in New York, is mired in controversy even before it gets off the ground.
EUROPE: Small Farmers Lost in Transition
- Inter Press Service
'Our country would have gone through the economic crisis much smoother had we invested more in agriculture over the past 20 years, and had we not wasted so many resources on consumption,' Romanian President Traian Basescu declared Aug. 7. That remark has drawn attention to serious questions whether countries like Romania are wasting their potential for agriculture.
BRAZIL: Italian Immigrants Helped Forge Local Identity in the South
- Inter Press Service
In 1875 a handful of families from the Veneto region of northern Italy, fleeing hardship and hunger, took ship for the Empire of Brazil. Disembarking in Porto Alegre in the southeast, they hacked their way for over 100 kilometres through densely wooded country into the Serra Gaúcha hills, up to 800 metres above sea level.
CLIMATE CHANGE: '15 Days to Copenhagen'
- Inter Press Service
The disappointing results of negotiations in Bonn last week are indication that industrialised countries are unwilling to make substantial contributions to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions.
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: River Deal May Help Dam Debate in Mekong Region
- Inter Press Service
The Mississippi River may be on the other side of the world from the Mekong River, but Vietnamese environmentalists say they hope a new link between the agencies that look after these two river systems can lead to new thinking about ways to manage water resources in the Mekong region.
TOURISM-COSTA RICA: Much More Than a Walk in the Countryside
- Inter Press Service
Some 3,000 people make their living from rural community-based tourism in Costa Rica, according to the association of tour operators who connect visitors to the delights of rural life.
INDIA: Swine Flu Tests Privatised Health Care
- Inter Press Service
While the swine flu pandemic has not hit India too hard, it has sorely tested the country’s ailing health delivery system and its plans to remedy the situation through ‘private-public partnerships.’
Q&A: EPAs Will Provide Africa With 'Better Export Opportunities'
- Inter Press Service
The European Union has pressurised Ghana to sign an economic partnership agreement (EPA) despite civil society concerns being raised about the detrimental effects further trade liberalisation will have on development in the West African country.
BRAZIL: Marching for Real Land Reform
- Inter Press Service
After 10 years of waiting for secure title to the land they occupy and farm, 35 families in Resende, in the southeastern Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, have joined a huge march organised by the Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Brasilia to demand effective agrarian reform.
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