News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 865
ECUADOR: Delayed Return of Fishing's 'Golden' Years
- Inter Press Service
'This year there haven't been many 'dorados', but they're beginning to appear now,' Ramón Díaz says hopefully as he disembarks with his fellow fishermen after spending the entire night out on the water.
RIGHTS-CHINA: Crackdowns Do Little to Address Sex Work
- Inter Press Service
Authorities in China are lauding a sweeping crackdown on prostitution across the country in recent months. But the sex trade continues to thrive in this booming nation, while services and support for women working in the industry remain inadequate, experts say.
BURMA: Junta’s Drug ‘Exports’ to China Test Economic Ties
- Inter Press Service
As military-ruled Burma prepares to unveil its new political cast, an enduring link between the junta and the country’s notorious drug lords is poised to come under the spotlight.
BRAZIL: Oil Palm Plantations Expand on Degraded Land in Amazon
- Inter Press Service
Brazil hopes to eventually become a major producer of palm oil, thanks to the expansion of this new exotic monoculture crop in the eastern Amazon jungle, where eucalyptus plantations are also mushrooming on broad swaths of already deforested land.
AGRICULTURE - SOUTH AFRICA: Small Scale Farmers Face Uphill Battle
- Inter Press Service
Just before sunrise 39-year -old Alan Simons, an emerging small-scale farmer, gets ready for his usual nine-hour day of harvesting, packing and deliveries. In his black Nissan van he drives ten kilometres to the seaside town of Strand outside of Cape Town to pick up his six workers, all of who are women.
JAPAN: Economic Woes Hover Over Yearend Revelry
- Inter Press Service
Japanese employees are marking the countdown to the new year with the usual parties that they traditionally indulge in to 'forget the past and start afresh’. But how they celebrate — and how much they spend on these ‘bonen-kai’ celebrations — are a harbinger of the state of the economy.
ECUADOR: Manta, the World Capital of Tuna
- Inter Press Service
Although domestic consumption of seafood is low, Ecuador has a large fishing fleet, and is home to the main port for tuna and white fish in the eastern Pacific.
CHINA: Researchers Race Toward Renewable Energy
- Inter Press Service
Researchers in China, the world’s leading provider of wind turbines and solar panels, are working toward making renewable energy cheaper, more efficient and a bigger part of the country’s power grid.
PERU: Sacrificing the Rainforest on the Altar of Energy
- Inter Press Service
The construction of five hydroelectric dams in Peru as part of an energy deal with Brazil will do considerable damage to the environment, such as the destruction of nearly 1.5 million hectares of jungle over the next 20 years, according to an independent study.
AGRICULTURE: Desperation Over Subsidies
- Inter Press Service
As the rains start to fall in Malawi, marking the beginning of the growing season, government is continuing to implement the fertiliser and seed subsidy programme which has since made the country a bread basket in the Southern African Development Community, SADC.
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