Insight / Politics & Economics / Right to Food and Agriculture
“People drive through and they say ‘Oh, Iowa, it’s so beautiful’ and it’s like if you really knew, we can’t drink the water, we can’t breathe the air, you know, the soil is dead. It’s this façade.” – Denise O’Brien, founder of Women, Food and Agriculture Network It’s a warm,…
Insight / Right to Food and Agriculture
It was 6 AM and as the sun was coming up, I was standing on the top of a mountain in Kalikot in Northwest Nepal with an official from the Ministry of Agriculture. He pointed across the valley to a small spot of land high up on the next mountain…
Insight / Right to Food and Agriculture
High up in the mountain communities of Northwest Nepal, it gets cold. Very cold. Winter runs from November through to April, and on most days temperatures don’t go above freezing. The cold winter weather and frozen ground makes growing things difficult – and that’s a big problem for the local…
Insight / Disaster Response / Land Rights / Women's Rights
Three years ago on Wednesday, Nepal was hit by a huge earthquake. Nearly 9,000 people lost their lives, and hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed. I was in Nepal only a few months ago and the impacts of the earthquake are still clearly visible. Walking through the…
Insight / Disaster Response / Women's Rights
Earlier this afternoon, a Trump tweet announced that Russia should “get ready” for a missile attack on its ally Syria, in response to a suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held town near Damascus over the weekend. Reports from organizations on the ground claim that 500 people were affected when aircraft…
Insight / Disaster Response
Four and a half feet of rain – more than the annual rainfall of New York City, and almost four years’ worth of rain for LA. That’s the amount of water that’s forecast to fall on the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh over the next five months. That may not…
Insight / Disaster Response / Women's Rights
Driving out of Cox’s Bazar towards the border with Myanmar, the first thing that hits you is the sheer number of people. In the last three and half months, more than 600,000 Rohingya people have made their way to this part of Bangladesh, fleeing violence and intimidation that the United…
Insight / Disaster Response
Often described as ‘the world’s most persecuted minority’, the Rohingya people have lived in Myanmar for centuries. But ongoing violence and persecution within the country has forced them to flee, seeking safety in neighboring Bangladesh. Since August 25 alone, more than 500,000 Rohingya people have arrived in Cox’s Bazar on…
Insight / Disaster Response / Right to Food and Agriculture / Women's Rights
Nearly 7 years ago today, Haiti was hit by a huge earthquake. More than 300,000 people lost their lives and many more were injured. In total, 1.5 million people were left homeless and in urgent need of emergency supplies such as food, clean drinking water and blankets. Led by our…
Insight / Disaster Response
Over a thousand people died when Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti on October 4. More than 750,000 people are in urgent need of food, clean drinking water and safe shelter. In some of the worst hit areas, up to 90% of homes have been destroyed, and widespread flooding has left thousands…
