Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1130
Walking an Economic Tightrope with No Safety Net
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 16 (IPS) - With the richest one percent of the population now owning 40 percent of global assets, and the bottom half sharing just one percent, inequality is fast being recognised as a stubborn underlying obstacle to development.
Programme to Boost Small Farmers Worldwide Faces Woes of Its Own
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Oct 16 (IPS) - When it launched in 2007, the Food and Agricultural Organisation programme known as Food Security through Commercialisation of Agriculture (FSCA) tried to adopt an approach that differed from on-going efforts to achieve food security, which focused primarily on food production.
Finding Land for Cameroon’s Pastoralist Nomads
- Inter Press Service
NDOP, Cameroon, Oct 16 (IPS) - Adamou Harouna's herd of cattle grazes leisurely on lush green vegetation in Ndop, a small village in Cameroon's North West Region.
With Obama Away, the Chinese Play
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Oct 16 (IPS) - As the U.S. struggles with a weeks-long government shutdown which has threatened the country's economic recovery and forced President Barack Obama to cancel a series of high-stakes visits to Asia, China has instead taken the centre-stage, boosting ties with Asian neighbours and promising multi-billion trade and investment deals.
Israel and the Gulf Increasingly Nervous Over Iran-U.S. Détente
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (IPS) - As hopeful, albeit vague, statements about talks in Geneva between Iran and the great powers continued to issue from the Swiss city Tuesday, foes of détente between Washington and Tehran maintained their own high tempo of work.
Money Transfer System Used to Arm Militants in Kenya
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Oct 16 (IPS) - Arms are being transferred from Somalia into Kenya through hawala, an unregulated and traditional Somali transfer system that works with a network of agents, according to immigration officials and hawala brokers here.
No Safe Havens in Increasingly Acid Oceans
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 15 (IPS) - Oil, gas and coal are contaminating the world's oceans from top to bottom, threatening the lives of more than 800 million people, a new study warns Tuesday.
Chevron Fights Amazon Pollution Verdict in U.S. Court
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 15 (IPS) - Two years after they were awarded 18 billion dollars by an Ecuadorian court for environmental damage caused by Chevron in the Amazonian rainforest, a group of indigenous villagers and their U.S. lawyer went on trial Tuesday in New York, accused by the oil company of bribery and racketeering.
The Hurricanes Didn’t Bring the Hunger
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Oct 15 (IPS) - A month after Hurricanes Ingrid and Manuel caused the worst destruction from a natural catastrophe in Mexico in 30 years, another disaster has come to light: hunger in communities that are supposedly served by a rural food supply programme.
Q&A: Mexico and the Rediscovery of South America
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Oct 15 (IPS) - Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, known as the ‘moral leader' of the Mexican left, said that his country and Central America "focus very much on the North" and should make a shift towards South America and its integration processes, in order to achieve less-dependent, alternative development conditions.
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