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Climate Conversations: How can we make food security fairer and more sustainable? [AlertNet] “One thing is clear – feeding the world sustainably and more fairly requires us to overcome several substantial hurdles. The world’s population is expected to grow by nearly a third by 2050, when there will be nine billion people. Economies are also growing, and as …
The world’s attention is fixed on the crisis in Egypt—as it should be—but there’s another crisis brewing in Somalia. IRIN reports: “An estimated 2.4 million Somalis require emergency humanitarian assistance as a result of civil unrest and food insecurity, according to the UN Food Security and Analysis Unit-Somalia. The failure of the short rains (October-December 2010) means …
Last summer, a group of prominent Jewish leaders traveled to Haiti with AJWS to learn about grassroots earthquake relief efforts and AJWS’s disaster to development strategy. Tonight, these leaders are coming together for an event at the Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Manhattan to share their reflections and to continue a conversation about Haiti’s future. If you can’t …
Some of the world’s attention remains focused on the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake (with good reason) but, meanwhile, there’s a crisis happening in Sri Lanka—a country that rarely makes news headlines. According to The Guardian, the Sri Lankan population is facing a major food crisis caused by devastating floods—floods that have wiped out homes, schools, …
Today is exactly one year since the earthquake in Haiti killed hundreds of thousands of Haitians and left millions without adequate shelter, healthcare and food. Haiti was a food insecure country long before the earthquake. But a year after the tremendous devastation and the collapse of infrastructure, making sure that Haitians get the food they need …
