Category: Ag/Farming
TOTAL Haiti launches its 2nd Edition of reforestation contest
Haiti Libre: TOTAL Haiti, launched the 2nd edition of its reforestation contest “Konbit Rebwazman se rasin lespwa !” Since January 14, 2016 until February 29,…
Brazil Zika outbreak: New test kits for mosquito-borne viruses
Image copyright Reuters Image caption The Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes are the transmitters of all three viruses BBC: The Brazilian Health ministry says it’s developed new…
Brazilians panic as mosquito-borne virus is linked to brain damage in thousands of babies
By Dom Phillips January 15 RECIFE, Brazil — Jusikelly da Silva was full of expectations for her baby. This was to be her fourth with…
Zika virus reaches Haiti
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) — The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) has confirmed the first case of the Zika Virus in Haiti. PAHO’s Communicable…
FAO extend by one year its program – Farmer Field School
Haiti Libre: Because of its economic and agricultural potential but also the high rate of food insecure people and its vulnerability to climate hazards, including…
IT IS ALREADY TOO LATE-Haiti’s Gold Problem- Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
by Devesh Rasgotra , January 11, 2016 Haiti’s hidden gold may hold the key to alleviating its socio-economic issues; however this will be dependent on…
IDB brings $2,4M to the SMASH program of the BRANA
Haiti Libre.com Friday, in the Étoile du Nord in Carrefour Vincent (Drouillard), the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the Inter American Development Bank (IDB),…
Zika Virus Appears in Puerto Rico
(CNNsucks)Health officials in Puerto Rico reported the island’s first case of Zika, a mosquito-borne virus recently linked to the rise of a serious neurological disorder…
Contribution to the egg industry in the economy
Haiti Libre.com In Haiti from 2010 to 2015, intensive egg production has increased fivefold, from 50,000 to 250,000 layers or approximately 1 million to over…
Florida officials to spray for mosquitoes due to rain, heat
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Wet, hot and itchy – welcome to Christmas in South Florida, where the heavy rains and abnormally high temperatures…
Economie: Une fin d’année 2015 totalement morose
La fin d’année 2015 se révèle totalement morose pour différentes couches de la population en Haïti, avec une hausse inconsidérée du coût de la vie….
“The Struggle for Land Justice Knows No Borders”: Corporate Pillaging in Haiti
Members of a peasant organization heading to a community meeting to discuss their rights. (Photo: Roberto (Bear) Guerra) By Natalie Miller and Beverly Bell, Other…
Brazil warns against pregnancy due to spreading virus
Rio de Janeiro (CNN)Brazilian health officials are dishing out some unusual advice these days: Don’t get pregnant. That’s the message for would-be parents, especially in…
What Haiti Taught Me About Seed Choice
Jillian Etress Jillian Etress is a high school agriculture teacher, farmer’s wife and mother from South Alabama. Haiti’s poor are resorting to eating “mud cookies”…
Sean Penn Announces Haiti Reforestation Project
By Alexa Gray, Contributing Editor How much power and influence do celebrities have in today’s world? One would argue, a significant amount, and with great…
Advocates: Haiti needs debate about risks of gold mining
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) David Mc Fadden” Haiti risks human rights violations and increased environmental degradation if gold mining proceeds in the impoverished country without an…
Bye, bye, bananas
(Amy Sancetta/AP Photos) In the mid 1900s, the most popular banana in the world—a sweet, creamy variety called Gros Michel grown in Latin America—all but disappeared…
Honduras, Myanmar & Haiti top of climate change risk list
Photo: dpa-tmn (AFP) Honduras, Myanmar and Haiti top a new list of nations hardest hit by two decades of storms, floods, landslides and droughts that…
Mosquito-Borne Chikungunya Virus May Lead to Fatal Brain Infection
Photo Credit: Getty Images The brain infection mostly affects infants and elderly ones and even lead to death as well. A mosquito-borne virus is spreading…