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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, …
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 …
