Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1182
Ugandan Teen Turns to Poultry to Fight Poverty
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA?, Jun 23 (IPS) - When Eunice Namugerwa, an 18-year-old living in Kampala's Kisenyi slum, decided to start a business to support her family last August, she scrawled three ideas down on a bit of scrap paper: a piggery, a fashion boutique and a chicken farm.
Facing Tough Times, Barbuda Continues Sand Mining Despite Warnings
- Inter Press Service
CODRINTON, Barbuda, Jun 22 (IPS) - Arthur Nibbs was known for his staunch opposition to sand mining in his homeland of Barbuda, a Caribbean island with dazzling white sand beaches that comprisemost of its deserted coastline.
Mining Benefits Fail to 'Trickle Down'
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Jun 22 (IPS) - With South-South trade on the rise and growth in emerging economies set to outstrip production in industrialised countries, the international mining sector has been quick to follow global trends.
‘Grand’ Corruption Grips East Europe
- Inter Press Service
PRAGUE, Jun 22 (IPS) - A deeply-engrained culture of graft across Eastern Europe is destroying bonds between politicians and the people as populations lose faith in what they see as a self-serving elite "enriching" themselves at their expense, anti-corruption campaigners have said.
Documenting Invasive Species on Colombia’s Plains
- Inter Press Service
OROCUÉ, Colombia, Jun 21 (IPS) - Along the unpaved road between the town of Orocué and the Wisirare private reserve in the eastern Colombian department of Casanare, biologist Juliana Cárdenas asks the driver to stop the bus so she can collect a specimen of West Indian foxtail, a kind of grass growing along the road.
India’s Food Security Rots in Storage
- Inter Press Service
BHUBANESWAR, India, Jun 21 (IPS) - Shooing off a quartet of hens that come pecking, twenty-four-year-old Kamala Batra sits guard over a sack of coarse rice spread out on the courtyard. After small black insects slowly crawl away in the sun's heat, she gathers it to cook for the day's free midday meal - a pan-India government food security scheme for school students.
Biofortification May Hold Keys to "Hidden Hunger"
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 21 (IPS) - The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), which works to end malnutrition among more than two billion people worldwide, is expressing strong support for enriching the micronutrient content of plants.
Time Still Not Right for Congolese Refugees to Return
- Inter Press Service
GOMA, DR Congo, Jun 21 (IPS) - Tuyisenge*, a former teacher from the Democratic Republic of Congo province of North Kivu, sat on a tree stump watching his fellow refugees go about their lives along the terraces of the hillside Kigeme Refugee Camp in southern Rwanda.
Climate Change Promises Tough Times for Asia and Africa - Report
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jun 21 (IPS) - Extreme heat, flooding and water and food shortages will rock South Asia and Africa by 2030 and render large sections of cities inhabitable, if the world continues to burn huge amounts of coal, oil and gas, the World Bank is warning.
U.S. Ordered to Halt Linking Aid to Anti-Prostitution Oath
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 20 (IPS) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a decade-long practise under which the government linked global HIV/AIDS funding to a controversial requirement that organisations explicitly state their opposition to prostitution.
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