The AJWS community has a lot to say about what's happening in the world. Read our insights about the struggle for justice and human rights around the globe — and meet the activists on the frontlines of the fight to build a better world.
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 …
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization shares its global outlook on food security [Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN] NextBillion offers a private sector approach to malnutrition in BoP markets [NextBillion] A female farmer in Pakistan curbs the hunger cycle with food aid [World Food Programme] Beverly Bell discusses food sovereignty and land reform in …
Late last week, NPR released a heart-wrenching report about how foreign aid is hurting rice farmers in Haiti. And this past Tuesday, another NPR report revealed how Haiti’s rice market is a mess and how farmers’ children are going hungry. Since the earthquake, free rice from foreign aid groups has made it harder for Haitian …
