By Malaka Gharib In honor of Thrive, our new food security campaign, I decided to dig up some photos of farmers and farm workers in Africa. It may surprise you that many of these workers are hardworking women who — in addition to raising their children and caring for their families — till the fields, sow the seeds and basically, do all the [...]
By Lauren Brock April is Earth Month. It’s the perfect occasion to brush up on your recycling and composting, plant a tree, ride your bike, and replace your light bulbs with the spiral-shaped energy-efficient ones. Here’s some good news: You can also add stocking up on Fair Trade Certified products to that list. You might already be familiar with how [...]
By: Adriano Rangel The government of Mozambique is ceding 6 million hectares [pt] of land to Brazilian farmers (this corresponds to two-thirds of the landmass of Portugal) to grow soy, cotton and corn in the northern provinces Niassa, Cabo Delgado,Nampula and Zambézia. The idea is to draw on the Brazilian experience in theCerrado (Brazil’s savanna), where since the 1960s the agricultural frontier has advanced into the interior with [...]
www.telegraph21.com It was a challenge to keep the human aspect of the tragedy alive, yet succeed in bringing about some clarity on the reasons behind the crisis.” Deepa Bhatia Over the past decade, burdened by debt, nearly 200,000 Indian farmers committed suicide, a shocking statistic largely ignored by the mainstream media. Nero’s Guests follows Indian journalist P. Sainath as [...]
Voices of Women Worldwide brings together people from all over the world interested in promoting the voices of voiceless women, young girls and children using all the different media they have available: blog posts, audio, video and visual journalism. A search on the video selection uploaded by members brought up several fascinating projects that focus on the power of women to [...]
This post was commissioned as part of a Pulitzer Center/Global Voices Online series on Food Insecurity. These reports draw on multimedia reporting featured on the Pulitzer Gateway to Food Insecurity and bloggers discussing the issues worldwide. Share your own story on food insecurity here. As global food prices continue to remain high, with potential increases on the horizon because of soaring oil prices and supply [...]
When I first sat down to research the Ugandan market, I read a statistic which made me first smile with giddy anticipation and then shiver in trepidation: over 50% of the Ugandan population is under the age of 18. Uganda has a population of over 32 million people. I smiled because that means my field, education, must be a thriving [...]
By: Ben Gleason Doi Chaang Coffee is a unique partnership between Canadian businessmen and the chief of the Doi Chaang village of North Thailand. They believe strongly in sustainable agriculture, organic growing methods, and fairly traded coffee. I encourage you to look at their website, you will be shocked at how much information they provide about the owners, the workers, [...]
