Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1473
HAITI: Open for Business — Part 2
- Inter Press Service
Ever since being elected earlier this year, Haitian President Michel Martelly and his team have been betting Haiti's reconstruction on foreign investors.
HAITI: Open For Business — Part 1
- Inter Press Service
'Haiti is open for business.' That's what President Michel 'Sweet Micky' Martelly said at a recent ceremony as he and former U.S. president Bill Clinton laid a cornerstone for a giant industrial zone being built in northern Haiti.
AGRICULTURE-BOLIVIA: Adapting to the Floods
- Inter Press Service
Margarita Amabeja holds out her hands full of golden rice grains and rough brown manioc roots - the first results of a strategy to adjust the agricultural cycles to the seasonal floods and droughts in the vast plains of Beni, in northeastern Bolivia.
Mexico Ignores Warnings about Bisphenol A
- Inter Press Service
Bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical found in strong plastics, is banned in baby bottles in Canada and the European Union. But Mexico has made no move to outlaw it from plastic bottles or the lining of food cans, despite the threat to health.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Waiting for the 'Heavens to Weep'
- Inter Press Service
Duduzile Sibanda takes a break from preparing her long stretch of land for her maize crop in rural Mberengwa, in Zimbabwe’s Midlands province. She wipes her brow under the scorching sun and looks upwards. The sparse clouds are a cause of concern as she studies the sky and wonders aloud when the 'heavens will weep.'
CHINA: Pollution Real if not Official
- Inter Press Service
In a country which houses 21 of the world’s 100 most polluted cities, outcry over official underplaying of pollution is escalating as residents refuse to take government readings of the problem at face value.
CASPIAN BASIN: As Energy Prices Head North, Democratisation Goes South
- Inter Press Service
Quiz: Over the next three months, three former Soviet republics will hold elections — Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Russia. Whose official outcome will most closely resemble the truth?
SOUTH AMERICA: Mercosur Trade Bloc — Integration or Protectionism?
- Inter Press Service
As Mercosur foreign ministers gather this Monday ahead of Tuesday's summit of heads of state, political harmony is growing between the governments of member countries, although free trade not only remains a pending challenge but is increasingly facing pitfalls.
U.S.: Greater Oversight Urged for Human Research in Wake of Scandal
- Inter Press Service
The current U.S. system for protecting the subjects of federally-funded medical research, both in the U.S. and around the world, has room for significant improvements, a presidential bioethics panel concluded late last week.
BRAZIL: Amazon Turtles - Illegal Protein for the Poor, Delicacy for the Rich
- Inter Press Service
'Many people lie' about the common practice of poaching turtles to eat or sell, said a man renowned for his fishing skills who lives on the banks of the Xingu river in Brazil's eastern Amazon jungle region.
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