News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 998

  1. Ethiopia Shows Developing World How to Make a Green Economy Prosper

    - Inter Press Service

    ADDIS ABABA, Oct 16 (IPS) - Ethiopia has experienced its fair share of environmental damage and degradation but nowadays it is increasingly setting an example on how to combat climate change while also achieving economic growth. 

  2. Africa Can Be its Own ‘Switzerland'

    - Inter Press Service

    MARRAKECH, Oct 16 (IPS) - Africa has the capacity to access at least 200 billion dollars for sustainable development investment but it will remain a slave to foreign aid unless it improves the climate for investment and trade and plugs illicit financial flows, development experts say.

  3. Civil Society in Cuba Finds More Space Under the Reforms

    - Inter Press Service

    CÁRDENAS, Cuba, Oct 16 (IPS) - Cafés, real estate agencies, taxis and other small privately-owned businesses and cooperatives in Cuba have brought new life to the depressed local economy and have given rise to pockets of prosperity in the country's towns and cities.

  4. Despite Public’s War Weariness, U.S. Defence Budget May Rise

    - Inter Press Service

    WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (IPS) - Despite the public's persistent war weariness, the U.S. defence budget – the world's biggest by far – may be set to rise again, according to a new study released here this week by the Center for International Policy (CIP).

  5. High-Tech, High Yields: Caribbean Farmers Reap Benefits of ICT

    - Inter Press Service

    PARAMARIBO, Suriname, Oct 15 (IPS) - Farmers in the Caribbean are being encouraged to make more use of farm apps and other forms of ICT in an effort to increase the knowledge available for making sound, profitable farming decisions.

  6. OPINION: The U.S. and a Crumbling Levant

    - Inter Press Service

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    WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (IPS) - As the international media is mesmerised by the Islamic State's advance on Kobani or ‘Ayn al-Arab on the Syrian-Turkish border, Arab states and the United States would need to look beyond Kobani's fate and the Islamic State's territorial successes and defeats.

  7. Curbing Biodiversity Loss Needs Giant Leap Forward

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Oct 15 (IPS) - When political leaders from climate-threatened Small Island Developing States (SIDS) addressed the U.N. General Assembly last month, there was one recurring theme: the urgent need to protect the high seas and preserve the world's marine biodiversity.

  8. Facing Storms Without the Mangrove Wall

    - Inter Press Service

    ATHENS, Oct 15 (IPS) - As the cyclonic storm Hudhud ripped through India's eastern state of Andhra Pradesh, home to two million people, at a land speed of over 190 kilometres per hour on Sunday, it destroyed electricity and telephone infrastructure, damaged the airport, and laid waste to thousands of thatched houses, as well as rice fields, banana plantations and sugarcane crops throughout the state.

  9. Regional Trade Agreements Cannot Substitute the Multilateral System

    - Inter Press Service

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    GENEVA, Oct 15 (IPS) - Regional trade agreements have grown very rapidly in recent years, and today the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has been notified that 253 are in force.

  10. Family Farming – A Way of Life

    - Inter Press Service

    ROME, Oct 15 (IPS) - It does not make the headlines, but 2014 is the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) and family farming will be centre-stage at this year's World Food Day on Oct. 16 at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO).

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