Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1403
Cloning - Lifeline for Cashmere Shawl Industry
- Inter Press Service
After scientists in Kashmir successfully cloned the pashmina goat, that produces the famous ‘cashmere’ wool, hopes are running high for the revival of the traditional shawl-making industry in this Indian state.
Massive Theft of Developing World's Farmland
- Inter Press Service
The mass acquisition or lease of arable land in developing countries, especially in Africa, by foreign investors — a practice aggravated by the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2007 — has reached record highs, according to several new studies.
Cameroonian Farmer Won’t Let Low Rainfall Defeat Him
- Inter Press Service
Olivier Forgha Koumbou washes some freshly picked carrots in a small brook and eats them with relish. His thriving farm in Santa, in Cameroon’s North West region, looks like a miracle in the midst of surrounding farms where carrots, lettuce, potatoes and leeks have withered and died.
U.S.: Occupy Earth Day Targets Chevron
- Inter Press Service
This year, Earth Day in Richmond, California was more than planting organic gardens or exploring solar panels.
Intra-African Trade or Global Integration: A Chicken-and-Egg Dilemma?
- Inter Press Service
Though the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has long held that trade between African countries is too low, experts at the South Centre, an inter-governmental think tank of developing countries, say intra-continental trade is already significant in manufactured goods and promises a new path to industrialisation.
Women of the World Unite for Rights
- Inter Press Service
The world’s recent financial and political upheavals have not been kind to women. In Libya’s Tripoli, female suicide rates increased tenfold during the revolution, while dismal job prospects have young Greek women abandoning their career aspirations, participants in a global forum on women’s rights said over the weekend.
Taiwanese Activists Cold to Human Rights Claims
- Inter Press Service
The first official national human rights report issued by Taiwan’s rightist Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang or KMT) government disappointed civil society and human rights advocates, who have described the document as 'an empty shell' and 'insincere'.
‘Anti-Terror’ Laws Haunt Pakistan’s Unionists
- Inter Press Service
As International Labour Day approaches, rights groups in Pakistan are redoubling their efforts to win freedom for six incarcerated union leaders in Faisalabad, the country’s textile hub, who are currently serving a combined jail term of 590 years for supposedly violating the country’s ‘anti-terror’ laws.
South Africa’s Smallholders Lose Battle for Seed Security
- Inter Press Service
In an almost ceremonial manner, Selinah Mncwango opens her big plastic bag and pulls out several smaller packets, each filled with different types of seeds: sorghum, bean, pumpkin, and maize. They are her pride, her wealth, the 'pillar of my family,' says the farmer from a village in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province.
Economic Crisis Hits Gender Budgeting
- Inter Press Service
Worldwide, women are largely responsible for managing family budgets, controlling 65 percent of global spending. But, women’s needs are often ignored when it comes to government budgeting, delegates at an international meet in the Turkish capital observed.
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