By Jill King Greenwood PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW When women in Haiti stop nursing their babies, it doesn’t take long for malnutrition to set in. Breast-feeding typically ceases when infants are 6 months old and they are transitioned to a diet high in corn, rice and wheat grains. The children don’t get enough iron, zinc and...
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Haiti’s king of fruit – the Francis mango – is taking the throne at Whole Foods Market. For a limited time, shoppers will find this exclusive, organic and Fair Trade™ Certified fruit under the grocer’s Whole Trade program. The Whole Trade Guarantee – which drives meaningful dollars into the struggling Haitian economy – ensures...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Marie Bolivar, a gray-haired woman with a raspy voice, crushes peanuts into paste for sandwiches which she sells by the roadside for 12 cents apiece. These days the paste is thinner, because the price of peanuts has jumped by 80 percent. But Bolivar, 60, says she still has trouble feeding her...
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Danny Schechter Al Jazeera The global economy and its recovery, and the living standards of millions of plain folks, are now at risk from the sudden rise in oil and commodity prices. Gas at the pump is up, and going higher. Food prices are following. The consequences are catastrophic for the global poor as...
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The president of the World Bank has warned that the world is “one shock away from a full-blown crisis”. Robert Zoellick cited rising food prices as the main threat to poor nations who risk “losing a generation”. He was speaking in Washington at the end of the spring meetings of the World Bank and...
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Prices of foodstuffs such as wheat have been hit by unrest in North Africa The World Bank has warned that rising food prices, driven partly by rising fuel costs, are pushing millions of people into extreme poverty. World food prices are 36% above levels of a year ago, driven by problems in the Middle...
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Editor’s note: CNN’s Moni Basu and Jim Spellman traveled to Haiti in December, to report on the one-year anniversary of the earthquake there. Among the stories they covered was the reunion of two survivors. Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — We found him on a Sunday morning, as an outdoor service came to a close at...
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Wholesale prices rise 1.6 pct. due to biggest jump in food costs in more than 36 years. WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices jumped last month by the most in nearly two years due to higher energy costs and the steepest rise in food prices in 36 years. Excluding those volatile categories, inflation was tame....
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Eric Sorensen: The many challenges that face Haiti and its people have been chronicled over the last year in newspapers and on television, in blog posts and radio reports. Haiti has been portrayed as a land devastated by a crippling mix of political instability, economic stagnation, and natural disaster. Its subtitle that’s repeated in...
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A struggling maker of handmade paper finds success by recycling elephant dung. He plans to move his workshop to provide jobs to village women. By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Jaipur, India — A thousand-mile journey begins with a single step. Sometimes that step leaves a little something on your shoe. Vijender...
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