Insight / Land Rights
Sawsan heard the rumbling of a bulldozer approaching, and she knew it was going to be no ordinary day. Her isolated community, Um Fagarah in the West Bank, is home to about 150 people, most of whom are farmers and shepherds. They rely on the land around them for grazing…
Insight / Right to Food and Agriculture
“USDA Provides Nutritious U.S. Peanuts in Humanitarian Effort for Haiti” read the headline on an article on the Department for Agriculture’s website. It continued: “The surplus peanuts will help feed nearly 140,000 malnourished kids for a full school year,” which sounds great – however, there’s much more to this story.…
Insight / Climate Justice / Emergency Response / Right to Food and Agriculture
You’ll have no doubt noticed the yo-yoing temperatures across the US in recent months, as unusually warm weather has given way to freezing conditions, and changed back again overnight. These shifts are part of a pattern that is being seen around the world. Yesterday there were reports of the first January-born…
Insight / Women's Rights
Much has been said about the healing power of honey – so much so that someone has even written a book about it – but beekeeping ending domestic violence. Really? That’s exactly what happened in San Carlos Alzatate, a small community in rural Guatemala, where a beekeeping project not only…
Insight / Land Rights / Politics & Economics
Earlier this week our team in Guatemala alerted us to a huge environmental disaster that’s unfolding along the La Pasión River in the north of the country. According to local sources, the Sayaxché region was put on red alert on June 11 when a pesticide called ‘Malathion’ was discovered in the…
Insight / Emergency Response
On Saturday the World Health Organization declared Liberia free of Ebola! This announcement came 42 days after the safe burial of the last person confirmed to have had the Ebola virus – meeting the official criteria for declaring that human-to-human transmission of the virus has ended. While more work is needed…
Insight / Land Rights
For the last week, we’ve been asking our supporters to sign our petition calling on the US Administration to end its support to the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. Why is that? You may ask. Good question. Here are 5 reasons why: 1. It needs land.…
Insight / Emergency Response / Land Rights / Right to Food and Agriculture
Five years ago today, a huge earthquake hit the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, shaking the city to the ground. Approximately 316,000 people lost their lives and 1.5 million were left homeless. In the aftermath of the earthquake, more than $9 billion was pledged by international donors to help Haiti “build…
