Inter Press Service - Latin America and the Caribbean

Artículos

• Jamaica Walking a Tightrope Between Boosting the Economy and Cutting Emissions in COVID-19 Era

  30 de agosto, puesto en línea por Zadie Neufville — Climate Change, Economy & Trade, Environment, Featured, Food and Agriculture, Headlines, Latin America & the Caribbean, TerraViva United Nations, Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
  Even as COVID-19 walloped Jamaica’s economy last year, the government overhauled its energy emissions milestones to create what many described as a post-pandemic recovery package, based on stronger carbon targets for the farming and forestry sectors. According to the plan, the country would (...)

• Railroads Drive Expansion of Soybean Cultivation in Brazil’s Amazon Region

  28 de agosto, puesto en línea por Mario Osava — Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Editors' Choice, Featured, Food and Agriculture, Headlines, Integration and Development Brazilian-style, Latin America & the Caribbean, Projects, Regional Categories, TerraViva United Nations, Amazon, Brazil, Deforestation, Railways, Soy, Transportation
  The sea of soybeans that sprouts every November will spread even further in the state of Mato Grosso if three new railway lines that would boost soy production in central-western Brazil and growing parts of the Amazon rainforest are built. The most controversial railway line, the EF-170, is (...)

• Mexico’s Suspicious Shark Fins Exports Under CITES

  26 de agosto, puesto en línea por Emilio Godoy — Biodiversity, Development & Aid, Environment, Featured, Headlines, Latin America & the Caribbean, TerraViva United Nations, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
  At “The Lieutenant” (“El Teniente”) fishing site, near La Paz (Baja California Sur’s capital) the boats go by and come in all morning. To chase down sharks, fishers make their way to the Holy Spirit island, some 30 km away from La Paz. They unload the products that will be sold at the city’s fish (...)

• Sharks, Victims of Mexican Authorities’ Neglect

  26 de agosto, puesto en línea por Emilio Godoy — Biodiversity, Development & Aid, Environment, Headlines, Latin America & the Caribbean, TerraViva United Nations, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
  The Mexican fisherman Tomás Valencia, aged 70, remembers that around 30 years ago he used to catch a lot of sharks. “We got bull shark, blacknose sharks, blue sharks, spinner sharks. We caught up to seven in a journey, on average we fished 4 or 5,” he recalled. Valencia began to fish at age 7 (...)

• Eastern Caribbean Youth Join Calls for Resilient Global Food Systems

  26 de agosto, puesto en línea por Alison Kentish
  As the international community prepares for the landmark United Nations Food Systems Summit, a pivotal gathering as part of a global goal to tackle food insecurity, hunger, biodiversity loss, and climate change through sustainable food production, Caribbean youth say the successful (...)

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