Category: Ag/Farming
The Right to Choose – For Farmers in Haiti-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
The Monsanto Company is learning a valuable lesson in Haiti: no good deed goes unpunished at the hands of radical anti-corporate elements of Western society….
One set of food staples finally cleared in Haiti-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
After languishing in the Port-au-Prince port for more than a month, the first shipping container filled with Buckets of Hope was released by the Haitian…
Seed Donation to Haiti
June 4, 2010 By G. Young Our statement on the protests in Haiti. On May 13, Monsanto announced a donation of conventional corn and vegetable…
Can farming save Haiti? Added COMMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By RENE BRUEMMER, The GazetteJune 5, 2010 8:41 AM Agricultural officials and aid workers worry that while global efforts to help earthquake victims in Haiti…
Monsanto’s Deadly Gift for Earthquake-Stricken Haiti…
The earthquake that hit Haiti in January is proving to be a lucky business break for Monsanto. They are offering Haiti’s farmers a deadly gift…
Monsanto’s 475-ton seed donation challenged by Haitian peasants-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service WASHINGTON – Advocates for Haitian peasants said a U.S.-based company’s donation of up to 475 tons of hybrid vegetable…
Monsanto’s Poison Pills for Haiti-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Monsanto, Haiti’s “New Earthquake” “A new earthquake” is what Haitian peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the news…
Monsanto Donates $4 Million of Seeds to Haiti-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
U.S. agriculture giant Monsanto is donating $4 million worth of seeds to earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Monsanto said Friday the Haitian Ministry of Agriculture has approved the…
Clinton Apology to Haiti Surprises NS Activists Former US president calls dumping cheap rice “a mistake”-Added COMENTARY By Haitian Truth
by Bruce Wark The Dominion – http://www.dominionpaper.ca http://www.dominionpaper.ca/files/dominion-img/Clinton%20in%20Port-au-Prince.thumbnail.jpg http://www.dominionpaper.ca/files/dominion-img/Clinton%20in%20Port-au-Prince.thumbnail.jpg Former US President Bill Clinton visits Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 18, 2010. [US Forces] Photo: Master Sgt….
The plantation called Haiti: Feudal pillage masking as humanitarian aid-Added COMMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Posted By mary On May 6, 2010 @ 9:25 pm In Haiti and Latin America | No Comments by Marguerite ‘Ezili Danto’ Laurent “For whose…
Food Aid Hurts Haiti’s Farmers Helping in a crisis can pose dilemma for local farmers and merchants-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Food Aid Hurts Haiti’s Farmers Helping in a crisis can pose dilemma for local farmers and merchants Steve Baragona | Artibonite Valley, Haiti29 April 2010…
Haiti Wants Food Aid to Stop? Government Says Generous Public Outpouring Is Interfering with Economy, Drawing Non-Victims to Camps and Enticing Corruption
(CBS) Of all the things you’ve heard about earthquake aid to Haiti, here’s something you probably didn’t know: Haiti’s government wants large-scale food assistance and…
Better farming could boost Haiti-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
DAME MARIE, Haiti — A soft rain is falling as a dozen farmers, sheltered by surrounding cacao trees, stand in a semicircle. One by one,…
With cheap food imports, Haiti can’t feed itself-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By JONATHAN M. KATZ The Associated Press Saturday, March 20, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The earthquake not only smashed markets, collapsed warehouses and left more…
Haiti Faces Major Food Crisis as Planting Season Nears, UN Says
February 12, 2010, 03:50 PM EST By Bill Varner Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) — Haiti faces a major food crisis due to a lack of support…
Fake Food Coupons Spread in Haiti – With ADDED COMMENTARY From Haitian-Truth
By MARC LACEY Published: February 8, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The United Nations said Monday that counterfeiters have begun printing up fake tickets to gain…
Frustration growing at Haiti aid bottlenecks
By PAISLEY DODDS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – The aid flooding into Haiti by plane and boat is not reaching earthquake victims quickly enough to stem…
2 weeks after Haiti quake, food aid falls short
By VIVIAN SEQUERA and BEN FOX, Associated Press Writers PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Street vendors openly sell U.S.-donated rice by the cupful from bags marked “not…
Haiti govt gets only 1 cent of every US aid dollar
By MARTHA MENDOZA The Associated Press Wednesday, January 27, 2010; 11:22 AM — Only 1 cent of each dollar the U.S. is spending on earthquake…
Iran Sends Aid Cargo to Haiti
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran on Saturday dispatched a cargo of emergency aids to the victims of the quake-hit Central American state of Haiti. The goods include…