Category: Ag/Farming
Mosquito-borne virus spreading in Caribbean
By DAVID McFADDEN Associated Press AP Photo/James Gathany KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A mosquito-borne virus appears to be spreading quickly in the Caribbean during the…
Haiti to plant millions of trees to boost forests and help tackle poverty
The Guardian.com Government-backed campaign aims to double Caribbean country’s forest cover by 2016 Haiti was once covered in verdant forests but land clearance for colonial…
Pumpkin Soup with Sora and Junior
By Buildingaschool: My New Year Posted on January 5, 2014 Back at home, I always stay up on New Years’ Eve but we don’t really do…
Partnership brings clean water to communities in Haiti, Peru
LIMA, Jan. 6 (UPI) — An international partnership forged in the United States is bringing clean water to underprivileged communities in Haiti and Peru and…
Lessons learned: growing rice in Haiti and Vietnam
A new method for coaxing more rice from the land with less water and fertilizer is beginning to take root in Haiti–as it has in…
Solar Micro-Grid Aims to Boost Power and Food in Haiti
EarthSpark, the project’s leader, won a Powering Agriculture grant for clean energy development. A little girl reads by the light of a solar home system…
CDC warns of mosquito-borne virus in Caribbean
Dozens of cruise ships set sail each week in winter from Miami Beach, Fla., and many of them make stops at multiple ports in the…
Haiti switches on to solar power as sustainable electricity solution
Solar energy is clean, green and can help to solve Haiti’s power crisis. Now the world’s largest solar hospital is lighting the way. The new…
Haiti Government Publicizes Its Cooperation and Support for ECCO2 Haiti Program
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI–(Marketwired – Nov. 20, 2013) – The Ministry of the Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Rural Development for the Republic of Haiti publicized its cooperation…
Plant to help Haiti’s peanut farmers opens
The Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The nonprofit group of public health pioneer Dr. Paul Farmer and a health care company have teamed up to…
Farmers to Feed the Hungry
By Mission of Hope, Haiti Published: Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013 – 10:36 am PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Oct. 29, 2013 — Innovative Initiative Creates Sustainable Economy PORT-AU-PRINCE,…
Today, in a first for Haiti, one group of farmers sponsored food aid for another group of farmers in need.
Jean-Robert Castin, representing farmers in Gonaives, giving rice, beans and cooking oil to Ametide Estimable, a farmer in Terre des Nègres. Today, in a first…
Célébration de la journée mondiale de l’alimentation, Haïti mise sur la banane
Haïti s’apprête à célébrer avec le reste du monde mercredi 16 octobre prochain la journée mondiale de l’alimentation sur le thème : » Des systèmes…
Why Is Haiti Hungry?
By Ayiti Kale Je , Haiti Grassroots Watch | Port-au-Prince, Haiti – Last May, the United Nations announced “6.7 million Haitians face food insecurity.” Aid…
‘No Monsanto!’: World marches against GMO food
Get short URL People hold signs during one of many worldwide “March Against Monsanto” protests against Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and agro-chemicals, in Los Angeles,…
Un programme d’aide alimentaire pour Haïti, mais qui aide les fermiers des Etats-Unis
jeudi 10 octobre 2013 16 Enquête Article 1 d’une série de 6 P-au-P., 10 oct. 2013 [Ayiti Kale Je / AlterPresse] — Malgré les affirmations…
USAID Funded Food Voucher Program Hurt Farmers, Favored U.S. Exports
A “test” food voucher program in the Grande Anse département (province) on Haiti’s southern peninsula promoted consumption of imported rather than local food for almost 18,000…
Three years later and 2.2 million trees greener.
From February 2010 — when we launched the Timberland agroforestry and tree nursery program, to December 2012, we planted 2.2 million trees in Haiti’s Gonaives…
Clinton, Four Seasons to Help Haiti Coffee Farms
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti October 9, 2013 (AP) A high-end Canadian hotel chain will soon be lending a hand to Haiti’s coffee farmers. The private foundation of…
Online Game Plants Trees in Haiti
Today at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, we launched an exciting partnership: for every virtual tree planted as part of a new online…