March 3, 2016
Categories: Africa, NGOs, Recipients
Tags: africa, farming, girls, solar, strategies
https://www.c-span.org/video/standalone/?320904-4/usafrica-leaders-summit-spousal-program-part-6 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Spousal Program, Part 6 Panelists discussed empowering African women and girls to participate in economic growth and promoting healthy lives through technology and job training. An African agriculture scientist focused on how women and girls wee crucial to tackling the issue of food insecurity. Then speakers detailed their companies’ development projects. […]
January 16, 2014
Categories: Economy, Haiti, Natural Disaster, United States
Tags: 2010 earthquake, farming, food program, Usaid
See on Scoop.it – 501c3 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The idea that the delivery of American food aid needs an overhaul goes almost without question here in the capital of a nation still recovering from the devastating earthquake of four years ago. Alex Lizzappi‘s insight: The turning point in the debate over U.S. food aid […]
November 25, 2012
Categories: Farming, Foreign Policy, History, Natural Disaster
Tags: farming
Poor Haitian Farmers Are Left Hopeless After Storm – NYTimes.com. Already Desperate, Haitian Farmers Are Left Hopeless After Storm By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLDNOV. 17, 2012 FAUCHÉ, Haiti — A woman who lost just about everything now gives her children coffee for meals because it quiets their stomachs a bit. Another despondent mother relives the awful […]
December 13, 2010
Categories: Farming, United States
Tags: farming, Port Au Prince, rice, US Imperialism
“Miami Rice”: The Business of Disaster in Haiti: “As we file this article, Port-au-Prince is thick with the smoke of burning tires and with gunfire. Towns throughout the country, along with the national airport, are shut down due to demonstrations. Many are angry over the government’s announcement on Tuesday night of which two presidential candidates […]