STWR - Share The World's Resources

The number of urban slum-dwellers worldwide has broken the one billion mark, making it clear that the urbanization of poverty is arguably one of the biggest challenges facing development today, executive director of UN-Habitat, has said. Reported by Nasidi Adamu Yahaya.

US subsidies for nuclear power programmes have triggered a race to build the first commercial reactor in the United States in a generation. However, moving away from fossil fuels also requires government intervention. But nuclear power has costs that will never diminish, argues Tyson Slocum.

In the battle for a sustainable water future, a far-reaching revolt is needed to reclaim citizenship and redefine how we interact with our environment - otherwise, these twenty-first century water wars could be merely a last stand against an inevitable corporatized future. By Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman.

The privatisation of water means that profits spring from the fact that the poor population for whom it is harder and harder to get safe drinking water is growing. We must create a movement to take back control of the water that is so essential to our lives, says Sakuma Tomoko.

Western companies are pushing to acquire vast stretches of African land to meet the world's biofuel needs. Local farmers and governments are being showered with promises. But is this just another form of economic colonialism? By Horand Knaup.

South Africa must recognise the role of land rent in the economy and consider radical economic changes - without leaving land redistribution to the market under the "willing buyer, willing seller" principle, writes Mark Braund.

The energy crisis and our over-dependency on oil demands a total restructuring of the global economy toward the self-sufficient and small scale, and signals the end to the transnational corporation, writes A.K. Gupta.