By: Juliana Rincón Parra It hasn’t been easy to try and stop child labor in Nicaragua, and the following videos provide a look into the reasons why many children are still working despite the new laws. While some families are seeing value in getting their children educated and are responding to awareness campaigns, for others child labor is the way they [...]
By: Julie Fahnestock Note from the author: I hope you’ve enjoyed this series thus far. Many thanks to those of you who have posted very engaging comments and questions. It’s so great to see the energy around this movement. I love being part of it and it seems that millions of others do too. And, I think the debate and disagreement [...]
By: Julie Fahnestock Part 3 of a multi-series post (read part 1 and part 2) (Please note: This posting critiques the fair trade industry at the close of 2011. As of January 2012, Fair Trade USA revised their standards and the current standards will be discussed in a future posting. Click on the link at the bottom of the post to [...]
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: Sarica Cernohous It is so important to consider the implications of how and what we feed ourselves and our families. When we purchase our food without this sort of mindfulness, we can find our purchasing power feeding the likes of pesticide/herbicide/fungicide-laden, GMO-laced, corporate agribusiness. Although not always the case, this model often has in its sites its shareholders profits rather [...]
By: Janet Gunter Our story is from the wild north of Mozambique, a poor country in Africa of roughly 20 million people where 70% of the population are small-scale farmers. Mozambique’s post independence history has been a rollercoaster ride of civil war and changing economic models. Mr. Júlio dos Santos Pêssego, from the province of Niassa, is a survivor. He grew up in a [...]
Forgotten produces relevant and notable fair trade t-shirts that provide consumers with a practical means of shopping justly while empowering African farmers and textile workers, and Minneapolis teenagers through job creation and business development. I’ve had the unique opportunity to travel around the world and have found that poverty looks the same wherever you go. And yet that’s the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By: Juliana Rincón Parra Coffee is a high consumption export product in many Latin American countries. Consumers may be aware of the disparity between how much they pay for a cup of coffee and how much the coffee farmers in far away countries may make, but perhaps they don’t realise that what they pay may be more even than their [...]
