Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 559
Oil Palm Changes Rural Culture in Brazilian Amazon
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 20 (IPS) - Thousands of small farming families in Pará, in the Amazon jungle in northeast Brazil, have turned to the African oil palm as a new source of income, through contracts with biofuel companies. Strange bedfellows, which poses cultural and economic challenges.
Malawi’s Failed Subsidy Programme Left Millions to Starve
- Inter Press Service
LILONGWE, Nov 20 (IPS) - Gogo Munthali, from Rumphi, a village over 400 km north of Malawi's capital Lilongwe, dissolves into tears every morning as she worries about what to feed her five orphaned grandchildren, the youngest of whom has full blown AIDS.
Widening Inequality Shatters Mirage of Social Mobility
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 20 (IPS) - Growing income inequality will pose a major threat to social stability in countries around the globe, according to a new report by the World Economic Forum.
Carbon Emissions on Tragic Trajectory
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 19 (IPS) - Burning of fossil fuels added a record 36 billion tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere in 2013, locking in even more heating of the planet.
Demarcation of Native Territories Essential for Venezuela’s Amazon Region
- Inter Press Service
CAÑO DE UÑA, Amazonas, Venezuela, Nov 19 (IPS) - "All of the countries of the Amazon basin say they want to protect the environment, but they all have agreements with transnational corporations for the construction of roads or for mining and exploitation of forests," Curripaco indigenous leader Gregorio Díaz Mirabal, from the south of Venezuela, told Tierramérica.*
More Chileans Want the Benefits of Living in Latin America’s ‘Tiger’
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Nov 19 (IPS) - Hugo Hurtado, 47, is a chef. Anyone would say that in his country, Chile, the Latin American "tiger", his profession would be synonymous with success and even fame. But unfortunately that's not true.
Déjà Vu All Over Again for Indebted Caribbean
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 18 (IPS) - On May 23, shortly after wrapping up negotiations on the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) 93- million-dollar loan - its second in three years - to keep Jamaica out of default, the fund's mission chief in the country, Jan Kees Martijn, set out to visit Croydon, a former plantation settlement in the mountainous northwest of the island.
It’s Rubbish to Waste Like This
- Inter Press Service
NAPLES, Nov 18 (IPS) - Before one reaches the premises of the Società Recupero Imballaggi (SRI), the smell in the air announces that this company in the southern Italian region of Campania deals with waste.
Côte d’Ivoire Poised at a Development Crossroad
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, Nov 18 (IPS) - All over the Ivorian economic capital, Abidjan, large cranes, involved in the construction of new buildings and highways, are dotted across the city skyline.
Bank Crash Hits Women Harder
- Inter Press Service
REYKJAVIK, Nov 17 (IPS) - Women in Iceland have been more badly affected by the economic collapse in 2008 than their male counterparts, both in terms of physical and mental health, studies show.
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