Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1497
CARIBBEAN: Cuba Shares Its Experiences in Agroecology
- Inter Press Service
Farmers and experts on agriculture from Haiti, Guadeloupe and Martinique are touring fields in Cuba this week, along with local colleagues, to exchange experiences to foment ecological fruit growing on Caribbean islands.
CLIMATE CHANGE: A Rising Sea Threatens Pacific Islands
- Inter Press Service
As world leaders gear up to spend the coming weeks in South Africa haggling over economically bearable cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, climate change is already exacerbating environmental conditions and threatening the lives and livelihoods of thousands of Pacific Islanders.
The Poor Need Insurance Too
- Inter Press Service
Poor families are well aware of the devastating effects of unforeseen expenses on their lives. Microinsurance, a recent microfinance tool, has the potential to limit their vulnerability and combat poverty, experts say.
U.S.: Occupy Wall Street Activists Vow to Fight On
- Inter Press Service
After two months of holding New York City's Zuccotti Park despite repeated threats of eviction, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) activists were forcibly removed from the site by hundreds of police in riot gear early Tuesday morning.
CLIMATE CHANGE-PERU: Rural Women Share Their Trials and Wisdom
- Inter Press Service
'This year the freeze killed my crops, our small livestock died, and now I can't even sleep because I'm worried sick thinking about how to put food on my family's table, since I'm a widow,' said Rosaura Huatay, an indigenous farmer in Peru's northern Andes highlands.
No Aloha for APEC
- Inter Press Service
As U.S. President Barack Obama sought to make headway on the first significant free trade agreement since NAFTA, a week of demonstrations protested the move.
Q&A: Cuba Advancing Towards a Dengue Vaccine
- Inter Press Service
'We don’t like to talk about our specific goals,' says Cuban virologist María Guadalupe Guzmán, as a subtle way to avoid going into too much detail about the research she is heading up to develop a dengue vaccine.
CLIMATE CHANGE: A Threat to Food Security in Africa's Basins
- Inter Press Service
While Africa has successfully avoided conflict over shared water courses, it will need greater diplomacy to keep the peace as new research warns that climate change will have an effect on food productivity.
World’s Biggest Hydropower Scheme Will Leave Africans in the Dark
- Inter Press Service
South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed an agreement to build a major hydroelectric power project, which is said to bring electricity to more than half of the continent’s 900 million people. But economic analysts warn foreign investors will prevent the grid from benefiting the general public.
MALAWI: Water Promises Light for Isolated Community
- Inter Press Service
In just a few weeks, seven villages that had expected to remain 'in the dark forever' will finally have electricity, courtesy of a small hydroelectric power plant on Lichenya River, one of the major rivers on the eastern slopes of Mulanje Mountain in southern Malawi.
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