Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1363
Water and Slums Bright Spots in MDGs
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 02 (IPS) - An annual report card on the ambitious U.N.-led initiative known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) says that in three areas - poverty, slums and water – the goals have been met ahead of the 2015 deadline, but persistent gaps remain, notably in the critical area of maternal health.
Poland Clings On to Coal
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Jul 02 (IPS) - Coal has brought its own compulsions for Poland, as it has for many other countries in the call to move to more renewable and cleaner sources of energy.
Going It Alone After the Rio Circus
- Inter Press Service
, Jul 01 (IPS) - The works starts now, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said at the conclusion of the summit on sustainable development in Rio last week. This was about the only UN statement that civil society groups seem to agree with. It is on the precise task at hand that they differ.
Community Volunteers Convince Ugandan Families to Have Fewer Children
- Inter Press Service
It is midmorning at the Kanungu Health Centre IV and the queue of patients grows as more people start to arrive for treatment at this rural facility more than 400 kilometres outside the Ugandan capital of Kampala.
Mapping out Climate Change Adaptation Plans on Kenya’s Airwaves
- Inter Press Service
On a Wednesday morning in Mutitu-Andei township in Makueni County, one of Kenya’s driest areas, smallholder farmer Josephine Mutiso tunes into Radio Mang’elete 89.1 FM and listens as meteorological experts discuss the changes in rainfall patterns in the county.
Cameroon's Baka Evicted from Forests Set Aside for Logging
- Inter Press Service
As Lysette Mendum listens to the sound of bulldozers crashing through the forest clearing a road to a mining site near her small village of Assoumdele in the Ngoyla-Mintom forest block in Cameroon’s East Region, she has never been more fearful in her life.
Bringing People 'Back to Life' in Uganda’s Slums
- Inter Press Service
As soon as Sanyu Nagia sits down in Barbara Namirimu’s home, she asks to see her patient’s bag of medicine. It is too heavy for the ill Namirimu to carry, so her mother, Efrance Namakula, brings it out and hands it over.
Increased Investment in Zambia’s Resources Means Displacement of Rural Poor
- Inter Press Service
As social movements blasted the 'new green economy' proposed at Rio+20 this week, environmental activists in Zambia worried about the role that poor people, especially those in rural areas, are going to play in it.
Market Gardens Key to Autonomy for Niger Women
- Inter Press Service
Four figures bend intently over their work in one corner of the large vegetable garden near the western Niger village of Dioga. Months after the village's main harvest has been brought in — and eaten up — the irrigated green of the garden is welcome relief in a part of the country where hunger never seems far away.
Mauritian Farmers Hooked on Fair Trade
- Inter Press Service
In finding a way to survive a 36 percent cut in sugar prices, Mauritian farmers are not only exporting a variety of fruit and vegetables to the European Union, but they have also begun farming in a more environmentally sustainable way.
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