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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 …
Late last week, Dan Smith explained the most important impending crisis worldwide: the global competition for fresh water. The piece is a response to the Foreign Policy Center paper, “Tackling the World Water Crisis.” Water is our planet’s most essential resource—we depend on it for our health, agriculture, industry and infrastructure. A shortage, excess and/or …
Helpful potato moths benefit Guatemalan farmers [Change.org] In Niger, children struggle to reach feeding programs [IRIN] In the aftermath of the tropical storm, Guatemala’s food crisis worsens [AlertNet] Urban farms aren’t just for yuppies [Civil Eats] Doctors Without Borders launches “Starved for Attention” – a global multimedia campaign on childhood malnutrition [Doctors Without Borders] Drought …
