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),…

(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…

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…

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Wet, hot and itchy – welcome to Christmas in South Florida, where the heavy rains and abnormally high temperatures…

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….

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…

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…

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”…

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…

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…

(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…

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…

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…

An Anopheles stephensi mosquito, in flight, pictured in 2005. Scientists at UC Irvine have inserted a gene into the Anopheles stephensi mosquitos, genetically engineering a…

An aedes aegypti mosquito on human skin. USDA via AP file Chikungunya, a painful, mosquito-borne virus that’s spreading fast across the Americas, can be more…

At theClinton Global Initiative in September it was announced that the SFA and Timberland had fulfilled their joint pledge of planting 5 million trees in…

PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI – Haiti is a country hungry for food. Poverty, natural disasters and a corrupt government have all contributed to what is…

If only we had more pesticides. Marcin Balcerzak /Shutterstock Pity Monsanto, the genetically modified seed and agrichemical giant. Its share price has plunged 25 percent…

A new documentary film chronicling the efforts of Timberland and the Smallholders Farmers Alliance (SFA) to plant 5 million trees in Haiti had its premiere…