News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 942
AFRICA: UNCTAD Recommends Further Privatisation of Cotton to Mali
- Inter Press Service
How can an African country define its own policy without getting lost in dozens of treaties and international commitments and the jungle of studies prepared by foreign donors and so-called experts, compounded by policy interference by international financial institutions and governments in the North?
ENVIRONMENT-US: Urban Farms Take Root
- Inter Press Service
Juxtapose the word urban in front of farm and there’s bound to be a lot of head scratching. But in cities around the U.S. small-scale farms and garden plots are coming to life in unlikely places. Abandoned city lots, and neglected yards are being converted into vegetable gardens - as basic food literacy becomes part of the vocabulary of city dwellers.
CUBA: Leaving the Hurricane Behind
- Inter Press Service
Debris of houses, roofless buildings and fallen trees are still routine sights along the 740-km drive from the Cuban capital to Holguín, one of the regions most heavily affected by Hurricane Ike in early September, 2008.
RIGHTS-SOUTH AFRICA: Women Want Land to Call Their Own
- Inter Press Service
In 1956, twenty thousand women marched to parliament to protest discriminatory pass laws. The march, commemorated as Women’s Day in South Africa on Aug. 9 each year, has become iconic of women’s quest for equality.
ENVIRONMENT-SOUTH AMERICA: Mapping the Riches of the Tropical Andes
- Inter Press Service
The Ecosystems Map of the Northern and Central Andes could serve as a guide for environmental conservation of this South American area covering 1.5 million square kilometres and holding the world's highest concentration of biodiversity.
TRADE-INDIA: Kerala Angered Over FTA With ASEAN
- Inter Press Service
Southern Kerala state is known for the lush expanses of cardamom, pepper, tea and rubber that grow on its misty hills, and the bountiful catches of fish on a coastline punctuated by lagoons and backwaters. But a cloud hovers over this picture of plenty - a free trade deal with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc.
MEXICO: Tequila Leaves Environmental Hangover
- Inter Press Service
Tequila, part of the national identity of Mexico, is invariably present at family celebrations and national holidays. But many are unaware of the bitter taste the tequila industry leaves in the water and soil.
CUBA: Compulsory Rural Boarding School on the Way Out
- Inter Press Service
Without fanfare or major explanations, the Cuban government has begun to dismantle the system of mandatory rural boarding school for students in the last three years of high school one of various reforms aimed at improving the quality of education that will start to be implemented at the start of the next school year in September.
ENVIRONMENT-CHILE: Anti-Coal Plant Activists Get Death Threats
- Inter Press Service
Five social activists and community leaders opposed to the construction of coal-fired thermoelectric plants near fishing villages in northern Chile filed a complaint with the prosecution service denouncing that they had received anonymous death threats warning them to stop their struggle.
ENVIRONMENT: Polluters See Green in Carbon Market
- Inter Press Service
Egypt's pollution problem is a potential goldmine of foreign revenue - if the country can tap into the lucrative international carbon trading market.
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