Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1479
HONDURAS: Indigenous Cooperatives Cultivate Success
- Inter Press Service
Thanks to the quality and freshness of their produce, indigenous Lenca farmers in western Honduras are regular suppliers of seven supermarket chains. This year they won the National Environmental Prize, in the community initiatives category.
Kyoto Protocol - Hopes for Tangible Results Remain Slim
- Inter Press Service
The last hours of the 17th United Nations climate change summit in Durban have begun. Since the arrival of almost 150 ministers and heads of state on Tuesday, negotiations have moved to the political level. They are expected to debate the way forward until late Friday night, or even Saturday morning.
Q&A: 'Investing in the Fight against Hunger Brings Extraordinary Returns'
- Inter Press Service
The man who played a key role in the design of Brazil's successful food security policies believes it is possible to eradicate hunger in the world, and intends to try by promoting 'a simple idea.'
Failure to Bridge the 'Emissions Gap' Brings Economic Crisis
- Inter Press Service
Countries at the United Nations climate change negotiations have publicly acknowledged their current pledges to reduce carbon emissions will not result in limiting global warming to less than two degrees Celsius.
BRAZIL: Child-Adapted Formula to Deal Major Blow to Chagas Disease
- Inter Press Service
A new paediatric formulation developed in Brazil holds out hope for a cure for over 90 percent of newborn babies infected with Chagas disease, a parasitic infection endemic in 21 Latin American countries, where it kills more people every year than malaria.
HUNGARY: ‘Unorthodoxy’ Fails, IMF Returns
- Inter Press Service
A year after slamming the door on the International Monetary Fund and announcing that a small country like Hungary could pursue an independent economic policy, conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been forced to kneel to the IMF and ask for help. Was there ever an alternative?
ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Women Turn Waste Into Wealth
- Inter Press Service
Standing on the shimmering white beach and gazing out at the turquoise blue waters of the Arabian sea, it is hard to believe that a decade ago this international tourist destination was under siege by mounting heaps of garbage.
Erosion Threatens an Island Culture
- Inter Press Service
Majuli island on the Brahmaputra river in the eastern Indian state of Assam is quickly losing its landmass to erosion. Majuli has long been regarded as one of the largest inhabited river islands in the world along with Ilha de Marajo of Brazil.
U.S.: Occupy Targets Foreclosures
- Inter Press Service
Five months ago, Gayla Newsome was at work when she got the call. A sheriff had come to her home of 15 years and put her two pajama-clad daughters out on the curb of her West Oakland street. Newsome knew the bank was about to foreclose, but thought she still had time to fight it.
At the Nexus of Agrofuels, Land Grabs and Hunger — Part 2
- Inter Press Service
The forests in Africa absorb over 1.2 billion tonnes of carbon annually. With these diverse and natural forests, grasslands and prairie lands disappearing under investment schemes and the development of monoculture plantations for supposed 'green' energy alternatives like agrofuels, not much else remains to absorb the shocks of hunger and climate change.
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