WEST AFRICA: PARIS, Nov 11 (IPS) - West Africa is one of the worlds regions most affected by pirate fishers. Illegal, unreported or unregulated fishing has been devastating local livelihoods and ecosystems for decades. National fisheries ...
Q&A: By Hilaire Avril speaks to RAYMOND BAKER, campaigner against corruption and money-laundering PARIS, Sep 16 (IPS) - Illegal capital flight in the form of corrupt, criminal and illicit commercial proceeds out of developing economies ...
TRADE: PARIS, Aug 21 (IPS) - The European Commission is demanding that the French government pays back 500 million euros spent on aid to French farmers. The scheme is in breach of European competition law as it financed competition with ...
WORLD: PARIS, Aug 5 (IPS) - For years, fishing communities along Africas 30,000 km-long coastline have been raising the alarm on the depletion of their fish stocks, to no avail. Over-fishing by foreign vessels has been wiping out the ...
AFRICA: PARIS, Jul 14 (IPS) - In 2007, the French corruption watchdog Catholic Committee against Hunger and for Development (known by its French acronym CCFD) issued a first report on the colossal sums stolen by corrupt heads of states and ...
Q&A: Hilaire Avril interviews GILLES SAINT-MARTIN, agricultural research expert PARIS, May 11 (IPS) - The food crisis in African states will not be solved by investment to spur agricultural production because the problem is not food output ...
ENERGY: PARIS, Apr 19 (IPS) - Earlier in the decade, biofuels were hailed as the energy panacea, the silver bullet to solve oil shortages and abide by environmental concerns. The European Union recently took the lead in imposing the use of ...
TRADE: PARIS, Mar 26 (IPS) - Experts agree the current financial crisis is largely due to economic deregulation. But despite the downturns dramatic effects on developing countries, the European Union (EU) is still pushing for the trade ...
FRANCE: PARIS, Dec 1 (IPS) - Just like humanitarian relief, fair trade is a field that attracts passionate individuals with complex world views. Most are not in it for the money. But it is also rife with controversy, as personalities ...
WORLD: Analysis by Hilaire Avril PARIS, Sep 26 (IPS) - The idea of making trade fair is as old as ethics itself. French fair trade literature is fond of referring to Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics, in which the Greek philosopher emphasises ...
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