Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1491
Aid Not Effectively Reaching Africa’s Poor
- Inter Press Service
Kenyan tea and coffee farmers remain disgruntled about the minimal profits they make selling their cash crops, the country’s leading foreign currency earners, as the government receives millions in funding for training and subsidies that most of these farmers are yet to see materialise.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Shale Gas Emerges as a Burning Issue
- Inter Press Service
The issue seems rather similar to that of unconventional oil and has already sparked a major controversy in the West. But its implications for the debate on climate change are hardly known in countries of the Global South.
The Screen Speaks for Suu Kyi
- Inter Press Service
Twenty years after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, and a year after being released from house arrest, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is the subject of a sweeping film that may increase international pressure on Burma’s ruling regime to speed up tentative reforms.
GHANA: Tropical Ulcer Persists Despite Affordable Solutions
- Inter Press Service
For the past 10 years, Buruli ulcer has been eating Benjamin Essel’s leg. The skin above his ankle is totally gone, and a swollen, pulpy and reddish wound rises almost up to his knee and wraps around his calf. Even still, this is an improvement over recent years.
ARGENTINA: Women Build New Opportunities in Cooperatives
- Inter Press Service
Forged in the 2001-2002 social and economic crisis, cooperatives in Argentina are becoming a fast track to women's participation in what were traditionally regarded as male spheres.
Drastic Child Poverty Might Destroy Lesotho’s Future
- Inter Press Service
Flagging economic fortunes and a persistent AIDS pandemic have devastated Lesotho, leaving little hope it will ever be able to pull itself out of its bleak poverty trap. Three out of five of the tiny southern African kingdom’s children are living in dismal poverty. Every fourth child is orphaned.
Millions Stand to Benefit from Farmers' Co-ops
- Inter Press Service
The 925 million people who went hungry in 2010 are just one facet of an ever-worsening food security crisis. Both food producers and consumers face the consequences of price volatility and unsustainable agricultural practices - challenges that leave leaders on local and global levels alike seeking sustainable models for agriculture.
EU: Conditions Faced by Roma People - from Bad to Worse
- Inter Press Service
Roma leaders are alarmed at the growing discrimination faced by their people in Europe, especially because of the anti-gypsy stance taken by many political parties, which blame the ethnic minority group for a wide range of social ills.
Q&A: Busan Beckons With New Promise
- Inter Press Service
For a start, stop calling it 'aid', Brian Atwood, chair of the Development Assistance Committee at the OECD, tells IPS.
OP-ED: The Future of Carbon Markets: Taking Politics Seriously
- Inter Press Service
Carbon markets are under attack on all sides, despite ongoing faith in their ability to deliver meaningful reductions in greenhouse gases (GHGs).
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