The Regional Media Forum “Fuelling Hunger in the Middle East: Biofuel Subsidies Drive Food-Price Inflation”, was held in Alexandria, Egypt, on 17-19 April, jointly organized by the Global Subsidies Initiative, the Library of Alexandria, and IPS - Inter Press Service. The purpose of the Middle East Media Forum was to bring journalists and experts together to analyze and discuss the links between subsidies and sustainable development.
With the focus on the rising cost of food, which has led to mass protests in several countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Read more »
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The Regional Media Forum “Subsidizing the biofuels boom: What consequences for Latin America?”, held on 27 - 28 March, 2008, at the Incae Campus, Alajuela, Costa Rica, was jointly organised by the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI), the INCAE Business School, and IPS Inter Press Service Latin America news agency, as part of an ongoing series of GSI regional media forums designed to lead journalists around the world towards a better understanding of the decisive role that subsidies play in key emerging challenges that face policy makers striving for a more sustainable world. 
The phrase ‘Opening Borders’, which appears in this book’s title, also describes what the 21 journalists whose work appear here were doing while reporting on issues that link at least two countries in the Mekong Region. Whether it is writing about the Kunming-Hai Phong railway, delving into perceptions by young Vietnamese and Cambodians of each other’s countries, or analysing the impact of border economic zones, they sought to open their own news borders — by looking at the other side of issues, going beyond usual national perspectives, and stepping far beyond familiar territory and languages. 
Senior legislators from the G8 countries and from Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and South Africa (the G8+5) will meet to politically test a draft Post 2012 Climate Change Framework developed by the 
