Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1338
Study Links Kidney Disease in Sri Lanka’s Farm Belt to Agrochemicals
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Aug 21 (IPS) - A new report links the high prevalence of chronic kidney disease in Sri Lanka’s main agricultural production regions with the presence of heavy metals in the water, caused by fertiliser and pesticide use.
Q&A: Brazil Invited to Join U.N. Palestinian Refugee Agency
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 21 (IPS) - The policy of pacification of Rio de Janeiro’s violent favelas, or shantytowns, could serve as a model in some respects in Palestinian refugee camps, says Filippo Grandi, commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine refugees, in this interview with IPS.
Beating the Weather With Sustainable Crops
- Inter Press Service
BUNDELKHAND, India, Aug 21 (IPS) - Narrow, cobblestoned lanes separate the rows of mud houses with cool interiors and mud-smoothened patios, some with goats tethered to the wooden posts. This is Tajpura village, deep in this water-stressed, drought-prone region of northern India.
Mauritania's Date Palms, Cultural Heritage and Means of Survival
- Inter Press Service
NOUAKCHOTT, Aug 21 (IPS) - "The palm tree is a means of survival," said Tahya Mint Mohamed, a 44-year-old Mauritanian farmer and mother of three children. “We eat its dates; we make mats, beds and chairs from palms; the leaves are also used to make baskets and to feed our livestock.”
As Green Climate Fund Finally Meets, Funding Remains Uncertain
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (IPS) - Five months behind schedule, the board of the newest and largest international financing mechanism aimed at dealing with the effects of climate change, the Green Climate Fund, is finally slated to meet this week, just ahead of a late-summer deadline.
Immigration Policies Wreak Unseen Havoc on U.S. Communities
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (IPS) - Deportation is a devastating experience for a family, breaking it apart and leading to emotional and mental stress for its members. But a new report from the Centre for American Progress shows that such duress extends beyond families and into the larger community as a whole.
Hydropower Dam to Flood Sacred Amazon Indigenous Site
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 20 (IPS) - The Sete Quedas or “seven waterfalls” on the Teles Pires River, which runs through the Amazon rainforest states of Mato Grosso and Pará in central Brazil, are a spiritual oasis venerated by several indigenous groups.
Food Security and the Failure of Mechanisation in DRC
- Inter Press Service
MBUJI MAYI, DR Congo, Aug 20 (IPS) - Mechanisation was expected to transform agriculture in the Democratic Republic of Congo's central province of East Kasaï. But a project to offer tractors for ploughing land has fallen flat.
Donors Turn Their Backs on Taliban
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Aug 20 (IPS) - For the past five years Sharifullah Shah, a local doctor from the conflict-ridden North Waziristan province in Pakistan, has handed over 500 dollars to the Taliban during the month of Ramadan. But this year, he is putting his money straight into the Edhi Welfare Centre, where he knows it will reach those in need.
Rights Issues Mar Sri Lanka-EU Trade
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Aug 19 (IPS) - Sri Lanka is in for some hard bargaining when it negotiates a new aid pact in 2013 with the European Union (EU), which withdrew a key trade concession two years ago over this country’s human rights record.
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