Category: Ag/Farming
HAITI SITS FROZEN- INACTIVE – IN THE SPOTLIGHT AS THE FREIGHT TRAIN ROARS TOWARDS US
‘May God save us all’: Mass evacuation as Hurricane Irma makes landfall in the Caribbean with 185mph winds after swelling to the size of FRANCE…
Hurricane Irma: Caribbean braces for ‘extremely dangerous’ storm
Predicted path of Hurricane Irma Hurricane Irma has been upgraded to a category five – the highest category – making it “extremely dangerous” as it…
Hurricane Irma has become so strong it’s showing up on seismometers used to measure earthquakes
US-bound Hurricane Irma has gotten so strong that it is showing up on equipment designed to measure earthquakes. Stephen Hicks, a seismologist at the National…
Will Hurricane Irma Hit Haiti? The Storm Looks Like It’s Headed For The Island Nation
ByCate Carrejo Just on the heels of Hurricane Harvey, another powerful storm is threatening the Atlantic this week. A troublingly powerful hurricane formed off the…
Powerful Hurricane Irma could be next weather disaster
While much of the United States’ focus is still on Texas and the destruction left behind by Hurricane Harvey and it’s historic rainfall, powerful Hurricane…
Hurricane Harvey slams into Texas as Category 4 cyclone
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. — Residents of the Gulf Coast hunkered down late Friday amid dire warnings of a major natural disaster as Hurricane Harvey, having…
Reforestation project makes impact in Haiti, looks to grow
The Haiti Reforestation Partnership took the old adage about teaching a man to fish to heart. In a decades-long effort to improve the quality of…
Cotton is back in Haiti after a 30-year absence
Cotton is back in Haiti after a 30-year absence, having once been the country’s fourth largest agricultural export. Global outdoor lifestyle brand Timberland, the Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA) and…
Mosquito Wars-By Bill Gates
Fight back against mosquitoes This is a special blog post. Sign up or sign in, read the article, and take the quiz. Then I will…
2016 weather report: Extreme and anything but normal
Evan Vucci / AP In this June 17, 2016, photo, a fisherman drives a boat during then-Secretary of State John Kerry’s tour of the Jakobshavn…
This Hurricane Season May Generate as Many as 19 Atlantic Storms
The Atlantic hurricane season will probably end with an above-average 14 to 19 named storms that can rattle energy and agriculture markets now that it…
China Extends Her Silk Road To Haiti
Georgianne Nienaber China plans to build markets in Port–au–Prince under the new initiative. China plans to invest $30 billion in Haiti’s infrastructure according to the…
Inauguration of the first Chinese factory in Haiti
Haiti Libre: Past week, he Dominican group “M” directed by Fernando Capellan that manages the free zone of the Industrial Development Company SA (CODEVI), located…
Voodoo believers bathe in a Haitian waterfall said to have healing powers and celebrate ancient Goddess of Love
Thousands of Haitians every year flock to the ancient city of Saut d’Eau to bathe in its waterfalls and pay pilgrimage to a Voodoo Goddess…
Study says nixing TPS immigration program would harm economy
By Rhina Guidos • Catholic News Service • Posted July 27, 2017 WASHINGTON (CNS) — Citing the significant economic contributions of immigrants under a federal…
Agricultural Policy Forum analyses strategies in the Caribbean
PARAMARIBO, Suriname (CMC) — The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says the ministers of agriculture of Suriname, Guyana, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic, as well as…
Haiti – Environment : Towards a disaster announced- Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
According to reports by several international experts, climate change is expected to result in more than 50% reduction in rainfall in the coming years and…
Le sénateur Carl Murat Cantave, ’initiateur de la proposition de loi interdisant le mariage homosexuel en Haïti.
Le sénateur Carl Murat Cantave, ’initiateur de la proposition de loi interdisant le mariage homosexuel en Haïti. Juillet 24, 2017 Sur proposition du sénateur de…
Genetically engineered mosquitoes could wipe out Zika, but some in Dallas County oppose local trials
The mosquitoes that carry the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne illnesses showed up in 38 new counties in the U.S. in 2016 — and 34…
Laborde gets seed and tools from the Smallholder Farmers Alliance
It began as a simple question. Would the Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA) like a gift of 4,000 pairs of shoes for our farmer members in…