Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1370
Family Planning and Subsistence Agriculture Key to Food Security
- Inter Press Service
Papua New Guinea’s high fertility rate is exerting pressure on land and food production in a country where 80 percent of the population lives in rural communities. But the National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) argues that traditions of subsistence agriculture provide a firm foundation to build food security for a growing population.
Money Still 'Buys' You Gold at the Olympics
- Inter Press Service
The Olympic Games are widely viewed as a chance for countries to showcase their fastest, strongest, most skilled and disciplined athletes, a time when political, economic and cultural differences are set aside and individuals are judged on personal merit alone.
India Grapples With Garbage
- Inter Press Service
'We tell friends planning to visit us to follow the stench of rotting garbage,' says Jeevaratnam (one name), a homemaker in this village 16 km from Kerala state’s capital of Thiruvananthapuram.
Brazilian Street Stars Dance and Shine in Spain
- Inter Press Service
Arrayed in colourful garments they have made themselves, six teenagers who used to be street kids in Fortaleza, in northeast Brazil, visited this southern Spanish city to recount their life experiences and awaken solidarity.
Samoan Breadfruit Makes a Splash in the Caribbean
- Inter Press Service
Can a single species of tree significantly reduce hunger, unemployment and deforestation in the tropics? Researchers and scientists behind a surge in breadfruit activity think so.
Child Victims of Côte d'Ivoire's Crisis Survive Off Trades
- Inter Press Service
Twelve-year-old Ahmed* pauses on his crutches in the narrow lane that leads from his house to the main road, glancing at the bullet holes still visible on the walls here in the Abobo Park 18 area of Abidjan. He sighs, then speeds up again to catch the bus that will take him downtown to the Adjamé quarter.
U.S.: Law of the Sea Treaty Ratification Faces Unsettled Waters
- Inter Press Service
Given the wide range of its supporters — everyone from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Armed Forces to Greenpeace — one would think that Senate ratification of the 1982 Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) would be a slam dunk.
Sharing Southern Africa's Water
- Inter Press Service
The Southern African Development Community's protocol on shared watercourses is recognised as one of the world's best. But sound agreements on the sustainable and equitable management of joint water resources require effective means to implement them.
Hostile Witnesses Weaken Justice System
- Inter Press Service
Four years after three middle-aged men were murdered in cold blood in central Kashmir, their case lies forgotten, collecting dust in the court’s record room, while culprits roam free. Meanwhile, a young woman named Afroza lost a two-year battle to get her rapist punished, when her neighbour gave false evidence in court, thus facilitating the acquittal of the accused.
Expo 2012 Shadows Rio+20 on Sustainable Oceans
- Inter Press Service
When the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) takes place in Brazil next week, it will be closely shadowed by another event thousands of kilometres away in the South Korean coastal town of Yeosu: Expo 2012.
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