Tierramérica

Issue of December, 08, 2008



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Coffee plantation workers in Los Cacaos, a southern community of the Dominican Republic.
Credit: Valeria Vilardo/IPS

Report
A Place for Eco-Coffee in the Dominican South
By Valeria Vilardo
Fair trade, organic production, gender equality and education form part of the strategies of thousands of coffee-growers for escaping poverty in the south of the Dominican Republic.

Kanayo Nwanze
Credit: Courtesy of IFAD

Dialogues
Urgent Seeds for Haiti
Sabina Zaccaro interviews KANAYO NWANZE
Haiti's food security requires the availability of seeds and improvements in harvests and irrigation, asserts IFAD vice-president Kanayo Nwanze in this Tierramérica interview.

Illustration credit
Credit: Fabricio Vanden Broeck

Analysis
Climate Change and Tomorrow's Losers
By Marcel Claude
Global warming creates an opportunity to induce the necessary changes for a better world order, and for the poor, who -- with or without climate change -- are otherwise tomorrow's losers, says Chilean economist Marcel Claude in this column for Tierramérica.

Eco-Briefs

GLOBAL: Climate Debate Cool in Poland
The United Nations conference on climate change, Dec. 1-12 in Poznan, Poland, faces the task of agreeing a plan of action for negotiations in 2009 for an obligatory pact for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

VENEZUELA: Mangroves Cut Down to Protect Lagoon
Venezuela's Environment Ministry began cutting down hundreds of meters of mangroves in Las Peonías lagoon, the core of a 2,100-hectare park near Maracaibo (600 km west of Caracas), despite regulations that protect mangrove ecosystems.

CHILE: Anti-Pesticide Groups Take On the Government
The Alliance for a Better Quality of Life and the Latin American Anti-Pesticide Action Network (RAP-AL) of Chile staged a protest outside the government's Agriculture and Livestock Service (SAG) headquarters about the continuation of aerial fumigation.

BRAZIL: Affordable Eco-Housing
A low-cost home that can be built in five days from recycled material only and equipped to use solar energy and rainwater is a social and environmental solution that is gaining ground in Brazil.

CUBA: Energy Collaboration in the Caribbean
Eleven countries of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) are benefitting from a program promoted by Cuba for saving energy, the island nation's deputy foreign minister, Alejandro González, said ahead of the regional summit Monday.

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