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Climate change threatens to slash Bangladesh’s rice crop [AlertNet] Food, Inc.’s Eric Schlosser urges Senate to pass the Food Safety Bill [Civil Eats] “Haiti: The Aid Dilemma” [PBS]—This is the third installment of ongoing FRONTLINE reports on Haiti with correspondent Adam Davidson of NPRs Planet Money. Himalayan glaciers are melting, endangering the waterways of Afghanistan, …
Originally posted on Change.org. Last week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee released a report on the state of play regarding relief and reconstruction efforts in Haiti. It doesn’t paint a pretty picture. One of the report’s major findings is that the various donor governments are having trouble agreeing on a unified set of priorities and plans, …
African countries aren’t spending enough on agriculture,IRIN reported last week. And that’s a bad thing: “Spending money on food production is critical in Africa, where 70 percent of people live in rural areas and depend on agriculture for food and income. There are also going to be more people to feed in Africa in the …
UCLA Law Professor Jonathan Zasloff discusses the success of Techno-Agriculture for Poverty Alleviation (TIPA) in Senegal [Legal Planet] G8 food security program can make or break PM Harper’s child and maternal health plan [AlertNet] Faces & Visions of the Food Movement: Jennifer Curtis [Civil Eats] Secretary Clinton announces the winners of the annual World Food …
A piece recently published in Newsday—a Zimbabwean newspaper—poignantly expresses what we’ve been discussing a lot lately, particularly with regard to sustainable agriculture in Haiti: that food aid alone does not alleviate poverty. Though Zimbabwe has been plagued with food insecurity for quite some time, this year most farmers in northern Zimbabwe produced a bumper harvest of maize, while …
