Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1340
Senegalese Cooperative Gives Youth Reasons to Stay at Home
- Inter Press Service
MATAM, Sénégal, Aug 16 (IPS) - Like many other young Senegalese, Pape Mokhtar Diallo long dreamed of escaping his rural home in northern Senegal for a better life. Three times he tried and failed to go overseas. But the establishment of an agricultural cooperative here in the village of Boyinadji has put another dream within his grasp.
Food Activists See Portents of New and Deeper Hunger Crisis
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 16 (IPS) - Food rights activists from around the world will descend on the coastal U.S. state of Florida next week to protest homelessness and hunger facing millions of people in the United States and across the globe.
Mauritanian Women Turn to Poultry to Fight Poverty
- Inter Press Service
NOUAKCHOTT, Aug 16 (IPS) - The building is standing empty now, but Fatimetou Mint M'Barkenni is looking forward to when it is again filled with the soft cheeping of day-old chicks. Earlier in the year, she raised a first batch of broiler chickens as part of a pilot project, to boost rural incomes and food security here at Bourate, in rural Mauritania.
Belo Monte Dam Can No Longer Ignore Native Communities
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 16 (IPS) - A judicial order to halt construction of the Belo Monte dam in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest may be just one more battle in a long-drawn-out war in the courts over the controversial hydroelectric project.
Quotas in Brazil’s Public Universities to Democratise Education
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 15 (IPS) - A new law about to enter into effect in Brazil will reserve half of all admission slots in public universities for students who attended public primary and secondary schools. But the measure, aimed at expanding access to the country’s best universities, will require structural reforms.
Bangladesh 'Fixes' Grameen Microcredit
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Aug 15 (IPS) - Laboni Vhoumik’s lingerie manufacturing unit in the Gopai village of Noakhali district, about 180 km outside the capital, is a forceful argument in favour of the Grameen Bank microcredit model that fosters female entrepreneurship and also relies on it.
Q&A: Hospitals Working to Reduce Their Ecological Footprint
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Aug 15 (IPS) - Medical care is associated with images of cleanliness and good health. Today’s hospitals, however, are major sources of pollution and consume large amounts of valuable resources, like energy.
Surviving on a Meal a Day in Ghana’s Savannah Zone
- Inter Press Service
TAMALE, Ghana, Aug 15 (IPS) - In order to ensure that he and his family survive this year's failed harvest, Adams Seidu, like farmers in other rural communities in Ghana’s Northern Region, has implemented a strategy for survival. They are using what Seidu calls the "one-zero-one strategy" for children, and the "zero-zero-one strategy" for adults.
Crocs and Humans Clash in Shrinking Space
- Inter Press Service
PORT BLAIR, Aug 15 (IPS) - Twenty two-year-old Ajay Kallu, hailing from the Bakultala village in northern Andamans, was devoured by an estuarine crocodile when he waded waist deep into a creek to fish on the morning of Aug. 1, marking the fifth fatal crocodile attack in 28 months in the remote Islands that lie at the juncture of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.
Civil Society Squeezed on All Sides
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (IPS) - A year and a half after the international wake-up call of the Arab Spring uprisings, the room for civil society organisations is being increasingly constricted across the globe, experts in Washington warned on Tuesday.
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