News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 629
Youth Find a Future in Food Production
- Inter Press Service
MUNDA, Solomon Islands, Apr 10 (IPS) - With little more than a bush knife and an axe between them, a group of young boys between the ages of nine and 18 years have taken food security into their own hands. In Kindu, a community of 5,000 people in the coastal urban area of Munda in the Solomon Islands, these boys, who have been abandoned by their parents, have transformed their lives by establishing a cooperatively run farm.
Militarised Island Seeks Makeover
- Inter Press Service
GINOWAN, Japan, Apr 10 (IPS) - The island of Okinawa has long been known as the base camp for a majority of the United States' 50,000 troops in Japan. But now, against the backdrop of escalating nuclear threats from North Korea, local leaders are pushing hard to promote this island – the largest of 60 that comprise Japan's southern prefecture – and its surrounding islets as a lucrative site for commercial enterprises.
U.S. Global Health Cuts Threaten Gains on Lethal Diseases
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 09 (IPS) - A U.S.-based civil society coalition is calling on Congress and President Barack Obama's administration to keep spending on global health aid at current levels, warning that recent budget cuts risk a dangerous backslide in health and development gains achieved over the past three decades.
“20th Century Agriculture, 19th Century Logistics” in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 09 (IPS) - Edson Godinho, a truck driver with 35 years' experience, was lucky this time. When he reached the southeastern port of Santos in early April, the line of waiting trucks was much shorter than it had been earlier, so he only had to wait 12 hours to unload his soybeans.
World Bank to Strengthen Focus on Land Rights
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 08 (IPS) - The World Bank will be placing stronger emphasis on issues of land tenure and socially and environmentally sustainable agricultural investing, it announced Monday.
Q&A: Obesity and Hunger Are Two Sides of the Same Problem
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 08 (IPS) - Over 40 million children under the age of five were overweight in 2010. In fact, since 1980, the worldwide prevalence of obesity has doubled, according to the British medical journal the Lancet.
The Other Side of the Coin in Spain
- Inter Press Service
MÁLAGA, Spain, Apr 08 (IPS) - Wholemeal rye bread, lettuce and chard are some of the products on offer from the El Caminito urban vegetable garden at the small organic produce market in this southern Spanish city, with prices set in "comunes", one of more than 30 social currencies circulating in the country.
Expanding Ethiopia’s Bamboo Sector
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Apr 08 (IPS) - A combination of an abundance of bamboo and eager foreign investment is making Ethiopia a frontier for the bamboo industrial revolution in Africa, according to this country's government.
Water Shortage Hits Pacific Women
- Inter Press Service
HONIARA, Solomon Islands, Apr 08 (IPS) - The Solomon Islands, a developing island nation in the south-west Pacific Islands, has one of the highest urbanisation rates in the region, and the basic service infrastructure is struggling to cater for the influx of people from the provinces to the capital, Honiara. Thirty-five percent of the city's population, who live in informal settlements, are facing the health consequences of a dire shortage of clean water and sanitation.
Free Ticket to 'Apartheid'
- Inter Press Service
AZZUN ATME, Occupied West Bank, Apr 06 (IPS) - "At least we are not treated like dogs and made to feel so uncomfortable," Amjad Samara, 30, a labourer from Nablus in the northern West Bank told IPS as he and a group of Palestinians waited at the checkpoint near Qalqilia to cross into Israel for their day job.
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