Tierramérica

Issue of May, 05, 2008



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Choosing the best potatoes.
Credit: Milagros Salazar/IPS

Report
Saving the Potato in the Peruvian Highlands
By Milagros Salazar, special to Tierramérica*
A handful of Peruvian families are working to preserve 200 varieties of potato in the Andean highlands, where this crucial crop was domesticated eight thousand years ago.

Crocodiles in Cuba's Ciénaga de Zapata.
Credit: J. Haedo

Accents
Climate Danger Lurks for Cuban Wetland
By Patricia Grogg, special to Tierramérica
Residents of the Cuban wetland Ciénaga de Zapata face the challenge of changing an apparent inevitability: the disappearance of the marsh as a result of global warming.

Indigenous women sell food to bus passengers outside La Paz, Bolivia.
Credit: Diana Cariboni/IPS

Accents
Indians Speak Out Against Carbon Markets
By Haider Rizvi*
Indigenous leaders from around the world oppose profit mechanisms for fighting climate change.

Eco-Briefs

BRAZIL: New Malaria Medication
Brazil has a new, more efficient medication against malaria, ASMQ, which will be available at cost (2.5 dollars per dose) for Latin American and Asian countries.

ARGENTINA: Recycled Plastic for Food Containers
Argentina's National Industrial Technology Institute (INTI) has approved a technique for manufacturing food containers from recycled plastic bottles.

MEXICO: Environmentalists Repudiate Electricity Project
Mexico's Federal Electricity Commission, CFE, has divided a fishing community with promises and food in the Cuyutlán lagoon, in the western state of Colima, to calm criticisms of a planned electricity plant, charge ecologists.

HONDURAS: March for the Forest - Again!
The third "March for Life", organized by the environmental movement led by Catholic priest Andrés Tamayo, is part of an effort to bring attention to environmental degradation in Honduras.

Lessons From a Unique Decade - José Graziano da Silva *
Rio+20 and Beyond: Together for a Sustainable Future - José Graziano da Silva *
Why Inclusive Green Growth Can Sustain Recent Gains in Latin America - Hasan Tuluy*
The Global Food Crisis and the Latin American Paradox - Pamela Cox