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New Report on the Impact of U.S. Food Aid in Haiti
With the one-year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake fast-approaching, many are wondering just how much progress has been made over the past 12 months and what kind of change the future holds for Haitian people. Congress has still not passed the Haiti Empowerment, Assistance and Rebuilding (HEAR) Act that would create a clear framework for reconstruction and authorize the multi-year …
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American Jewish World Service Formally Joins Sudan NOW
New York, NY; December 10, 2010—American Jewish World Service (AJWS), a human rights and international development organization, announced today that it has formally joined Sudan NOW, a campaign led by a group of prominent anti-genocide and human rights advocacy organizations committed to bringing meaningful and lasting peace to Sudan and encouraging strong American leadership and …
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Food Aid and the Agricultural Cargo Preference (ACP): What Needs to Change?
Yesterday, the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa hosted a conference on Food Aid and Agricultural Cargo Preference (ACP)—a controversial but little understood aspect of U.S. food aid programs. I caught up with AJWS’s Global Food Justice Consultant Patty Kupfer who was at the conference. Here’s the skinny: The ACP is a 56-year-old policy …
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AJWS Selects Rabbinical Students for Prestigious Speaking Fellowship
New York, NY; November 23, 2010— American Jewish World Service (AJWS), an international development and human rights organization, has selected four outstanding rabbinical students for its annual “Kol Tzedek: Voices of Justice” speaking fellowship. David Fainsilber, Adam Greenwald, Leah Greenwald Jordan and Aaron Lerner are all alumni of AJWS’s Rabbinical Delegation program, which sends two …
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The Power of Indigenous Women in Peru
Most things are forgotten over time, but for Mujeres de Anta—a collective group of Quechua Indigenous women and AJWS’s partner in Cusco, Peru—no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things they can never assign to oblivion; memories they cannot rub away.
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A Fight for Lake Turkana, A Fight for Life
I am writing from a tiny plane in the sky on our way back from Turkana (northwestern Kenya) to Nairobi. It is hard at times to get your head around the fact that both places are in the same country. When traveling to Nairobi or elsewhere in Kenya, Turkana people will often say “I’m going …
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Is Food Aid Really a “Gift from the American People”?
Originally published on the Pursue blog. U.S. foreign food aid dates back to U.S. reconstruction efforts in Europe following World War II. Over the last 60 years, it has morphed into a $2.2 billion business with vested interests ranging from international development organizations to farmers, processors and shipping companies. Our foreign food aid has become highly politicized …
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Local Aid is Key to Northern Uganda Recovery
A recent IRIN article (posted on AlertNet) affirmed what many of us at AJWS have been saying for a long time: that local aid and local humanitarian assistance are crucial to sustaining developing countries. According to IRIN, local assistance in northern Uganda has played a key role in post-conflict recovery in the Pader and Katakwi …
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The U.S. Supports Local Food Procurement in Pakistan
After months of political pressure, the U.S. government is really starting to get it: local food is the key to a healthy, sustainable future. Back in August, I’d blogged about the floods in Pakistan and the country’s exacerbated food aid crisis following the devastation. The good news is that Rajiv Shah, administrator of the United States …
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What’s “Organic” about Organic? Or, no, it isn’t just about not having to wash your vegetables.
Originally posted on the Pursue blog. Until recently, I’d never really identified with the Organics movement, felt compelled towards the little green and white label or put much stock in my peers’ obsession with pesticide free-food. I chalked it up to feeling overwhelmed by the system and told myself that it was okay to focus on …
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