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Farming Can Save Haiti if Congress Acts Now
“If $1 billion of the $11 billion pledged by international donors was put toward agriculture, the world could watch Haiti not only feed itself, but export billions,” said Haiti’s presidential candidate Charles Henri Baker in the Montreal Gazette’s feature “Can Farming Save Haiti?.” A future in which Haiti is not only self-sufficient, but is exporting …
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Does Bill Clinton Really Want to Help Haiti for the Long-Term?
Bill Clinton was back in Haiti last week, echoing a major concern of many in the international development community that the upcoming hurricane season poses a huge threat to the country. In addition to nearly a million people living in fragile temporary shelters in the large cities, the agricultural infrastructure in rural areas — already …
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AJWS and AVODAH Revamp Jewish Social Justice Partnership
AJWS and AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps, a domestic year-long service program for Jewish young adults, have announced a new name and website for their partnership.
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Cambodian Farmers Speak Up for Land Rights
Land rights abuses in Cambodia rarely spill into the global spotlight, particularly in connection with food insecurity. In the absence of legal documents often lost or destroyed during decades of civil war, Cambodian farmers frequently struggle to prove their ownership of land. Many of these farmers along with Cambodian NGOs have accused Cambodia’s government of …
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How Obama’s $2.8B To Haiti Can Be Harmful
A supplemental bill that includes the $2.8 billion in emergency funding to Haiti is expected to hold a House committee mark-up this week. But mere allocation of this money for Haiti is not enough – how the money actually gets used is of paramount importance. To ensure U.S. aid to Haiti benefits Haitian farmers rather …
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Five Questions Monsanto Needs to Answer about its Seed Donation to Haiti
Originally posted on Civil Eats. Monsanto has donated $4 million in seeds to Haiti, sending 60 tons of conventional hybrid corn and vegetable seed, followed by 70 more tons of corn seed last week with an additional 345 tons of corn seed to come during the next year. Yet the number one recommendation of a …
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AJWS Announces Jewish Community Engagement Fellowship
AJWS has announced its new Presidential Fellowship. The twelve-month, highly competitive fellowship offers a recent college graduate the unique opportunity to accompany AJWS president, Ruth Messinger, on her professional travel, including speaking engagements in Jewish communities throughout North America.
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AJWS Board Chair Receives Prestigious Philanthropy Award
AJWS is pleased to announce that its board chair, Barbara Dobkin, will receive one of the highest honors in philanthropy, the LEAD award, this weekend from two of the world’s leading philanthropy organizations, the Women’s Funding Network and the Council on Foundations.
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Getting Food Off the Shelves and Into Somali IDPs’ Bellies
In Mogadishu, store shelves are full of food but the bellies of civilians are not. An article in IRN today reported that the Somali government has asked the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to release food stocks in Mogadishu for distribution to hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) who are chronically hungry. Somalia …
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Recommendations for Haitian-Led Reconstruction and Development
This past Wednesday at the long-awaited Haiti Donor Meeting, countries and international organizations pledged nearly $10 billion to rebuild Haiti after January’s earthquake. But the question of how this money will be spent and who, exactly, will benefit remains in question. Thanks in large part to the extraordinary work of AJWS Policy Associate and “From …
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