Posted on 31 May 2012 by admin
Federico Mayor Zaragoza e Mario Soares*
Barcelona, Espanha, 31/5/2012, (IPS) – Vivemos tempos de grande confusĂŁo e de enormes incertezas. Uma parte do mundo se vĂŞ ferozmente afetada pelas consequĂŞncias do Estado de total submissĂŁo em que se encontram os governos com relação aos mercados financeiros. Continue Reading
Posted on 31 May 2012 by admin
Busani Bafana interviews SAMEER DOSSANI, ActionAid International advocacy coordinator
BULAWAYO, May 31, 2012 (IPS) – It is vitally important that governments and civil society organisations start transitioning to a more sustainable global food system in order to achieve lasting development.
Posted on 30 May 2012 by admin
Rousbeh Legatis interviews MOHAMED BÉAVOGUI of the International Fund for Agricultural Development
UNITED NATIONS, May 30, 2012 (IPS) – As Africa’s Sahel region faces a new food crisis, smallholder famers hold the key to making future development policies sustainable. Continue Reading
Posted on 30 May 2012 by admin
By Julio Godoy
PARIS, May 30, 2012 (IPS) – The reproductive rights agenda, from improving women’s access to education to systematic family planning to reducing birth rates and combating poverty, has become a cornerstone of most industrialised nations’ development policies toward the least developed countries (LDCs), comprised primarily of sub-Saharan African states.
Posted on 29 May 2012 by admin
By Claire Ngozo
LILONGWE, May 29, 2012 (IPS) – As she sits down to watch the 8pm news on TV, Mercy Kamphoni from Chamtulo Village in Malawi’s Mangochi lake district looks elated. She still cannot believe that she is the new proud owner of a television set, refrigerator and radio.
Posted on 29 May 2012 by admin
By Mariela Jara
LIMA, May 29, 2012 (IPS) – For ages, rural women in the Peruvian highlands have been selecting and storing seeds, ensuring their preservation. But the authorities have failed to tap into this storehouse of knowledge and experience, despite the contributions it could make to the design of effective policies for adaptation to climate change, which poses a growing threat to the women’s livelihoods. Continue Reading
Posted on 29 May 2012 by admin
IPS U.N. Bureau Chief Thalif Deen Interviews BRANISLAV GOSOVIC, author and former staffer on the Brundtland Commission on Environment
UNITED NATIONS, May 29, 2012 (IPS) – The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro was to a large extent derailed by a North-South divide: a battle between a coalition of rich industrial nations versus the world’s developing countries led by the Group of 77.
Posted on 29 May 2012 by admin
By Sha Zukang*
UNITED NATIONS, May 29, 2012 (IPS) – The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, otherwise known as Rio+20, is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.
Posted on 25 May 2012 by admin
Thalif Deen
Nações Unidas, 25/5/2012, (IPS) – O secretário-geral da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU), Ban Ki-moon, expressou sua frustração pela falta de progressos substanciais nas discussões sobre um plano de ação a ser aprovado na ConferĂŞncia das Nações Unidas sobre Desenvolvimento Sustentável (Rio+20).
Posted on 24 May 2012 by admin
Redação IPS
Nova York, Estados Unidos, 24/5/2012, (IPS) – A CĂşpula da Terra, realizada em 1992 no Rio de Janeiro, foi descrita como uma das maiores conferĂŞncias internacionais da histĂłria da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU). Continue Reading
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