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A few weeks ago, I wrote about Cambodian farmers’ fight for land rights in a country where land grabs are disturbingly common. An estimated 85 percent of Cambodian households lack land titles. Many villages lose their livelihoods as a result of the Cambodian government routinely leasing large tracts of rural land for agro-industrial exploitation. Over …
Today’s heart-breaking New York Times story about Haiti’s orphans is a painful reminder of the earthquake’s enduring devastation. The article offers a harrowing portrait of Daphne, a 14-year-old girl who watched her mother’s mangled body get carted away in a wheelbarrow from a shattered marketplace. Daphne then lived in a makeshift orphanage founded by Frades—a …
Originally posted on Pursue: Action for a Just World. On January 25th of this year, I was in a conference room at AJWS full of excited people brainstorming about starting a Jewish, social-justice-focused Community Supported Agriculture group, or CSA. We were committed to turning the plan into reality, but not quite sure how we were …
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, …
