Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1339
Europe Thinks Again About Food
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Aug 19 (IPS) - Present day European farming is based on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which was created over six decades ago by countries emerging from severe food shortages that swept the continent during and after the Second World War.
Cambodia’s Hydro Plans Carry Steep Costs
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Aug 18 (IPS) - The Cambodian government has committed to the construction of two dams along the Mekong River in order to meet a huge demand for electricity, but environmental groups warn that severe repercussions loom for this strategy.
U.S. Court Upholds Status Quo on Gene Patents
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (IPS) - Is a gene more like a tree trunk or more like a baseball bat? A federal court Thursday took a stand on the question, ruling that isolated DNA molecules are “not found in nature", and are therefore more like inventions, such as baseball bats, than natural phenomenon, such as tree trunks.
Millions of Jobless Desperate in Spain
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Aug 17 (IPS) - The sun is shining in Spain as it does every summer. But millions of people in this crisis-stricken country are living in the shadow cast by Europe’s highest unemployment rate.
World Bank Releases Draft Strategy for Myanmar
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (IPS) - Following on calls by civil society, the World Bank has released a draft summary framework for its re-engagement with Myanmar over the next year and a half. The formal interim strategy is slated to be ready by the end of October.
Q&A: Water and Food Security Are Inseparable
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 17 (IPS) - With the U.N. ominously warning of an impending food crisis following severe droughts in farmlands in the United States, Brazil, Russia and at least two rain-deprived states in India, the world will once again turn its attention to a finite natural resource: water.
Activists in Argentina Expect Landmark Ruling against Agrochemicals
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Aug 17 (IPS) - After more than a decade of campaigning against toxic agrochemicals, a group of women from a poor neighbourhood in the northern Argentine city of Córdoba have brought large-scale soybean growers to trial for the health damages caused by spraying.
Livelihoods Drying Up on Malawi's Lake Chilwa
- Inter Press Service
LAKE CHILWA, Malawi, Aug 17 (IPS) - Fisherfolk and farmers living near Malawi’s second-largest water body, Lake Chilwa, are relocating en masse and scrambling for space around its shores as the lake has dried to dangerously low levels.
Cash Grants Replace Food Aid for Niger Families in Need
- Inter Press Service
TILLABERI, Niger, Aug 17 (IPS) - When her name is called, Rékia Djibo leaves the group of women gathered in front of the school in Toula, and takes a confident step towards the door. Djibo is one of the recipients of a cash transfer from the World Food Programme here on the outskirts of the southwestern Niger city of Tillabéri.
Disputes Arise Over Cambodia’s Killer Illness
- Inter Press Service
PHNOM PENH, Aug 17 (IPS) - The deaths of dozens of Cambodian children in recent months from an initially undiagnosed disease has highlighted the difficult balancing act between informing the public and potentially provoking panic.
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