Tierramérica

Issue of March, 25, 2001



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Report
Hazardous Air Inside
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
The World Health Organization reports that one billion people are regularly exposed to dangerous levels of indoor air pollution, whether at home, at work or when traveling by mass transit.

Accents
Death Stalks Brazilian Oil Workers
By Mario Osava
At least 92 people have died in accidents related to petroleum exploitation in Brazil over the last three years, according to industry experts.

Notable Writings
In Search of a New Ethical Ideal
By Ignacio Ávalos Gutiérrez
Advances in genetics have caught us unprepared, we suffer a ''normative deficit,'' says Venezuela's former minister of Science and Technology.

Eco-Briefs

COLOMBIA: Eradicating Coca by Hand
A thousand families in the southern Colombian department of Putumayo committed themselves on Mar 16 to take part in a government-sponsored initiative to eliminate 1,000 hectares of illegal coca crops by hand - in exchange for reliable supplies of food.

ARGENTINA: Protest against Dam
Some 60 civil society organizations, including farmers' groups, have joined forces in Argentina to fight the construction of the Corpus dam on the Paraná River, a joint Paraguay-Argentina project that was already rejected in a 1996 plebiscite.

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