Tierramérica

Issue of March, 01, 2010



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Prolonged drought can mean desertification
Credit: Mauricio Ramos/IPS

Report
The Thirsty Caribbean
By Peter Richards
The countries of the Caribbean, facing the worst drought in decades, are adopting strict rationing rules, with jail time for those who violate them.

Eco-architecture can also be a tool for city planning
Credit: Alejandro Arigón/IPS

Accents
WANTED: An Effective Multilateral System for the Environment
By Marcela Valente
Governments and civil society groups are recognizing the urgent need to strengthen global institutions to confront the challenges of climate change.

Tortilla production is a source of water pollution in Mexico
Credit: Verónica Díaz Favela/IPS

Accents
Scientists Reinvent the Corn Tortilla
By Verónica Díaz Favela
Mexican scientists are working to make "nixtamalization," the ancestral technique for preparing maize to be made into tortillas, a more environmentally sustainable process.

Eco-Briefs

BRAZIL: Machine for Separating Garbage
A machine invented by students at SENAI, an industrial training center in Concordia, in southern Brazil, can separate out garbage by type, replacing what can be dangerous manual work.

VENEZUELA: A Frog for Al Gore
A frog that measures less than two centimeters long, discovered in the western Venezuelan state of Táchira, was named Allobates algorei in honor of the former U.S. vice-president Al Gore (1993-2001), co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace prize.

CHILE: Environmentalists Wary of New Government
Chilean environmentalists are concerned about the possible measures to be taken by the incoming environment minister María Ignacia Benítez, given her work as a private projects solicitor before the Environmental Impact Assessment System, some of which came under fire from citizen groups.

HONDURAS: Demanding an End to Illegal Logging
Civil society organizations are demanding that Honduran President Porfirio Lobo declare a total ban on lumber activities, in order to halt illegal logging of the nation's forests.

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