Category: Ag/Farming
Haiti – FLASH : Bad weather, many areas under water
Post by Haiti Libre: Video submitted by user Since Friday, Haiti is under the influence of a localized front on the eastern part of Cuba…
Zika ‘Very Likely’ to Spread From Mosquitoes to Humans in US, Official Says
Health officials stressed today that they are doing everything they can to minimize Zika outbreaks in the U.S. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National…
What U.S. peanut donations mean to Haiti
Residents of Leveque, Haiti, walk to a banana farm’s irrigation channel to collect water. (Dieu Nalio Chery/Associated Press) May 1 Regarding the April 27 editorial…
Embouteillage sur la route nationale #1, (Plaine du Cul de Sac)`
5:30 ce matin, déjà un grand embouteillage sur la route nationale #1, au niveau de la Plaine du Cul de Sac, particulièrement de Lathan jusqu’à…
Timberland joins forces with Haitian farmers to rejuvenate barren lands
A project to help farmers in Haiti earn a living from planting fruit trees has given way to a more ambitious goal to farm sustainable…
World Malaria Day: The Haiti Challenge
PUBLISHED ON 25 April, 2016 BY Ruth Kramer Haiti (MNN) — Malaria is a major public health problem in Haiti. Blessings International’s Haiti Challenge aims…
Millions Face Starvation As Haiti’s Drought Stretches Into Its Third Year
by Beenish Ahmed Apr 15, 2016 2:19 pm CREDIT: Meghan Dhaliwal for ThinkProgress Mirene Raymond has farmed rice in Haiti for decades, but she says…
Zika Mutates Extremely Quickly, Which Is Why It’s So Scary
Getty Images Scientists are also questioning how it spreads One thing that’s especially confounding about Zika is that as soon as something about the virus…
Haiti farmers peeved over US peanuts
Mrebalais – The barefoot farmer oversees three teenage workers as they attack weeds with spades in a sun-baked field of peanut plants, a vital cash…
Donation of surplus peanuts from US dismays Haiti farmers
MIREBALAIS, Haiti – The barefoot farmer oversees three teenage workers as they attack weeds with spades in a sunbaked field of peanut plants, a vital…
ZIKA- Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
News about Zika keeps getting worse. First is growing evidence that Zika causes of the serious birth defect microcephaly (abnormally small brain and skull) and…
Zika Virus Causes Birth Defects, Health Officials Confirm
By PAM BELLUCK and DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.APRIL 13, 2016 A therapist teaching a mother in Recife, Brazil, last month how to massage her baby,…
U.S. officials: The more we know about Zika, the scarier it is
U.S. health officials: Zika ‘scarier than we thought’ U.S. health officials say the spread and impact of the Zika virus is wider than initially anticipated,…
The Obama Administration’s Zika Offensive
The Obama Administration’s Zika Offensive Top public-health officials have joined the political fight over emergency funding for efforts to stop the virus. Kevin Lamarque /…
WFP plans to launch an emergency operation in Haiti
Haiti Libre: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) committed today to both assisting 1.6 million people hit by droughts exacerbated by El Niño in…
Brazilian scientists find new Zika-linked brain disorder in adults
An edes aegypti mosquito is seen inside a test tube as part of a research on preventing the spread of the Zika virus and other…
Rising hunger in Central America and Haiti as El Niño follows prolonged drought – UN agency
Some of the food distributed to the drought-affected communities of Las Hastas and Los Achiotes in the town of Orocuina, Choluteca, Honduras. Photo: WFP/Hetze Tosta…
How To Fight Zika When Your Country Is In Trouble: Improvise
Nadja Bezerra carries her 4-month-old daughter, Alice, who was born with microcephaly, in Recife, Brazil. Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg via Getty Images Lourdes Garcia-Navarro He asked for…
Brain scans of microcephalic babies suggest Zika disrupts development
Therapist Rozely Fontoura holds Juan Pedro, who has microcephaly, in Recife, Brazil March 26, 2016. Reuters/Paulo Whitaker Brain scans of 23 Brazilian infants with the…
Dumping Peanuts on Haiti
Peanuts being sorted before roasting in Haiti. Photo by Cory Flanagin. The people of Haiti deserve better agriculture solutions than extra peanuts from the American…





