Tierramérica

Issue of May, 04, 2009



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Ana Pancenko, 11, at the Tarará medical center.
Credit: José Luis Baños/IPS

Report
Chernobyl Kids Keep Arriving in Cuba
By Patricia Grogg
More than 24,000 people affected by Ukraine's 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster have been treated in Cuba since 1990.

UNAM's medical school.
Credit: Photo Stock

Accents
Mexico's Future Hinges on Near-Empty Science Classrooms
By Verónica Díaz Favela
The suspension of classes in Mexico due to the swine flu epidemic is not the only reason science and technology university courses have been nearly deserted.

Acacia savannahs in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
Credit: Public domain

Accents
Foreigners Lead Global Agricultural Land Rush
By Stephen Leahy
Corporations and governments with financial resources to spend are buying up agricultural land in poor countries as a means to ensure food and energy supplies.

Eco-Briefs

BRAZIL: Productive Plan to Save Biodiversity
Technical training, access to credit and strengthening the market are the key points of the national plan for socio-biodiversity productive chains, signed in late April by Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

CHILE: Anti-Dam Campaign Reaches Europe
May 8 will mark the end of a two-week tour through Spain and Italy by activist Juan Pablo Orrego, international coordinator of the Patagonia Defense Council, which is fighting the construction of five dams in the southern Chilean region of Aysén.

VENEZUELA: National Park Restricts Vehicles
Access of all-terrain four-wheel-drive vehicles is being limited in the Cainama National Park, in southeastern Venezuela, bordering Brazil and part of the Guiana massif.

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