Category: Ag/Farming
Tanama’s Story of Tree Planting in Haiti
The supershero Tanama, created by Haitian comic book artist Thony Loui, stars in an Instagram video posted today by Timberland (click image below for a YouTube…
DLA Piper Webinar Next Monday on Timberland’s Strategic Alliance in Haiti
The global law firm DLA Piper invites you to take part in free one-hour zoom webinar next Monday to learn about the Timberland partnership with…
Encouraging Haiti Food Survey Results + Deadline Extension
The landmark Haiti Food Security Survey has gathered data on close to 15,000 smallholder farms around the country. A heartfelt thanks to the 31…
Tanama Emerges as National Voice for Covid-19 Prevention in Haiti
Tanama is a supershero who has become a leading voice for Covid-19 awareness and prevention in Haiti. Created by local artist, Thony Loui, Tanama was…
Agricultural Data Survey Launched in Haiti to Counter Food Crisis
Smallholder Farmers Alliance There is some very good news today from Haiti with the announcement of a new groundbreaking national Food Security Survey that will use agricultural…
Tanama Continues to Battle Covid-19 in Haiti
Considering she only made her debut in March, it is remarkable that Thony Loui’s comic book supershero Tanama is already being referred to as an…
Integrating Emergency Food With Smallholder Recovery in Haiti
by Hugh Locke, Timote Georges and Robert Johnson Like so many countries throughout the developing world, Haiti is at the early stages of Covid-19 and…
A Sobering Astronomical Reminder from COVID-19
We should be grateful for the conditions that allow us to exist at all, because they won’t last forever Mother Nature has its nuanced way…
HAITI BEWARE – TAKE SINGAPORE AS A LESSON!!
How Singapore flipped from virus hero to cautionary tale by Faris Mokhtar Bloomberg Apr 21, 2020 In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Singapore…
The woman who discovered the first coronavirus
By Steven Brocklehurst BBC Scotland News The woman who discovered the first human coronavirus was the daughter of a Scottish bus driver, who left school…
The coronavirus isn’t alive. That’s why it’s so hard to kill.
The science behind what makes this coronavirus so sneaky, deadly and difficult to defeat By Sarah Kaplan, William Wan and Joel Achenbach March 23, 2020…
AMERICANS HAVE A SHORTAGE OF TESTING KITS AND MATERIAL: HAITI HAS NONE!!! – Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Exclusive: U.S. coronavirus testing threatened by shortage of critical lab materials The slow pace of coronavirus testing has created a major gap in the U.S….
Coronavirus may infect up to 70% of world’s population, expert warns
Boston — The coronavirus death toll now tops 3,000 worldwide, with nearly 90,000 cases. But even those numbers are nothing compared to what could happen in…
Haitian Supershero Supports Gender Equal Farming
Her name is Tanama and she is a shero! And while her official debut is not until March 13th, she wanted to be part of…
Bill Gates: Coronavirus may be ‘once-in-a-century pathogen we’ve been worried about’
KEY POINTS Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said the coronavirus is starting to behave like the “once-in-a-century pathogen we’ve been worried about.” Gates also pointed out…
Escaping Pandora’s Box — Another Novel Coronavirus
David M. Morens, M.D., Peter Daszak, Ph.D., and Jeffery K. Taubenberger, M.D., Ph.D. The 1918 influenza pandemic was the deadliest event in human history…
On the Eve of the Earthquake’s 10th Anniversary, Timberland Reflects on a Decade of Investment in Haiti
by Atlanta McIlw Sunday, January 12 will mark the 10th anniversary of the catastrophic 7.0 MW earthquake that struck Haiti and shook the world. For…
Voices of Hope for Haiti’s Future
As this Sunday’s anniversary of the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti drew closer, I was annoyed to see reporting that focused exclusively on how bad…
Planting Trees and Growing Communities in Haiti
They say money doesn’t grow on trees, but did you know a whole community can? Haiti is in the midst of an unprecedented political, economic…
Across several continents, infecting mosquitoes with bacteria results in dramatic drops in dengue illness, trials show
The number of people infected by dengue and at least one related virus has plunged in places where mosquitoes bred to be infected with a…