Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 550
Cuba’s Reforms Don’t Believe in Tears
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Dic 30 (IPS) - The landscape has changed in Cuba's cities and towns: where once only political slogans could be seen, today lighted signs are cropping up to advertise the best of local and international gastronomy and air-conditioned lodgings – signs of an emerging private sector that was inconceivable until recently.
Barren Fields Recover From Taliban
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Dic 30 (IPS) - Ahmed Nawaz, a 55-year-old farmer in northwestern Pakistan's Swat valley, rues the day the Taliban arrived in his beautiful land, known for its rolling mountains, lush fields and blossoming orchards. "The earth became barren," he says.
Baka Pygmies Caught in the Maze of Modernism
- Inter Press Service
MINDOUROU, Cameroon, Dic 30 (IPS) - Essomba Dominique, a Baka man from Mindourou in Cameroon's East Region, sits dulled-eyed in front of his hut, known in the Baka language as the ‘mongoulou'.
OP-ED: NAFTA’s 20 Years of Unfulfilled Promises
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 29 (IPS) - Twenty years after it took effect, NAFTA has failed the vast majority of Mexicans.
Every Eucalyptus Felled Equals Gallons of Water
- Inter Press Service
NSO, Cameroon, Dic 28 (IPS) - Sabina Shey Nkabiy, a farmer in Cameroon's North West Region, moves around these days with a million-dollar smile on her face. The mother of six, who used to trek 10 kilometres a day to farm, now harvests food in her backyard.
Farmers in Mozambique Fear Brazilian-Style Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
NAMPULA, Mozambique, Dic 28 (IPS) - Rodolfo Razão, an elderly small farmer in Mozambique, obtained an official land usage certificate for his 10 hectares in 2010, but he has only been able to use seven. The rest was occupied by a South African company that grows soy, maize and beans on some 10,000 hectares in the northeast of the country.
Rebuilding Lives Skilfully
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Dic 27 (IPS) - Farhat Bibi, 43, was left to fend for her three young sons after her husband was killed in a bomb attack in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) three years ago. A few days later, she landed at a camp for people displaced by violence. "The camp proved to be a blessing in disguise," she says.
GMO Test Trials Prove Divisive in Ghana
- Inter Press Service
SAVELUGU, Ghana, Dic 26 (IPS) - A battle over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is building in Ghana after the government recently completed regulations that could allow modified cowpeas and other selected crops to be grown following confined field trials (CFT).
Kashmiri Women Claim Their Rights
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, India, Dic 24 (IPS) - Mehnaz Bano (not her real name), a 37-year-old woman in a hamlet in Indian Kashmir, is living a "satisfied and peaceful" life ever since she secured her daughter's property rights before her remarriage – though not without a long and tedious struggle following her first husband's death.
Need for Firewood Raises Threat for Georgia's Christmas Tree Trade
- Inter Press Service
TBILISI, Dic 23 (IPS) - The South Caucasus country of Georgia is a source of much sought-after Christmas tree seeds. But its own forests are now under threat, as firewood is in increasing demand as a cheap source of heat for homes, schools and hospitals.
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