Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 982
A Flood of Energy Projects Clash with Mexican Communities
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Sep 15 (IPS) - Since January, villagers and townspeople near the Los Pescados river in southeast Mexico have been blocking the construction of a dam, part of a multi-purpose project to supply potable water to Xalapa, the capital of the state of Veracruz.
U.N. Climate Summit: Staged Parade or Reality Show?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 15 (IPS) - The much-ballyhooed one-day Climate Summit next week is being hyped as one of the major political-environmental events at the United Nations this year.
OPINION: Investing in Adolescent Girls for Africa’s Development
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Sep 15 (IPS) - Adolescence is a time of transition from childhood to adulthood. It is also a time of change and challenge.
Salvadoran Farmers Stake Their Bets on Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
JIQUILISCO, El Salvador, Sep 12 (IPS) - Peasant farmers from one of El Salvador's most fragile coastal areas are implementing a model of sustainable economic growth that respects the environment and offers people education and security as keys to give the wetland region a boost.
Majority of Consumer Products May Be Tainted by Illegal Deforestation
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 11 (IPS) - At least half of global deforestation is taking place illegally and in support of commercial agriculture, new analysis released Thursday finds – particularly to supply overseas markets.
OPINION: Ebola Crisis Reversing Development Gains in Liberia
- Inter Press Service
MONROVIA, Sep 11 (IPS) - As the Ebola crisis continues to take a toll on people's lives and livelihoods in West Africa, the focus is increasingly not just on the health aspects of the crisis, but also on its social and economic consequences.
Free Economic Zone Plan Slammed as ‘Suicide’ Pact for Taiwan Farmers
- Inter Press Service
TAIPEI, Sep 11 (IPS) - The Taiwan government's plan to liberalise tariff-free imports of agricultural produce from China and other countries for processing in free economic pilot zones, which will then be exported as ‘Made in Taiwan' items, may mean suicide for Taiwanese farmers if approved by the national legislature.
Will You be Chief? How Niger’s Traditional Leaders are Promoting Maternal Health
- Inter Press Service
BANDE, Niger, Sep 11 (IPS) - It is a long, 14-hour drive from Niger's capital city Niamey to the village of Bande. And the ride is a dreary one as the roadside is bare. The occasional, lone goat herder is spotted every few kilometres and the sightings become a cause of both confusion and excitement since there aren't any trees, or watering holes in sight.
Global Citizenship: “From Me to We to Peace”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 10 (IPS) - If a Silicon Valley existed for the culture of peace, it would most likely look to global citizenship as the next big industry shake-up.
Africa’s Dividing Farmlands A Threat To Food Security
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Sep 10 (IPS) - When Kiprui Kibet pictures his future as a maize farmer in the fertile Uasin Gishu county in Kenya's Rift Valley region, all he sees is the ever-decreasing plot of land that he has to farm on.
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