Category: Ag/Farming
Honduras, Myanmar & Haiti top of climate change risk list
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…
Mosquito-Borne Chikungunya Virus May Lead to Fatal Brain Infection
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…
Researchers Genetically Modify Mosquitoes to Be Malaria-Resistant
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…
Painful Chikungunya Virus Can be Worse Than Feared, Study Shows
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…
Haiti’s Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA) launch of our new U.S.-based strategic partner, Impact Farming.
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…
Ending Haiti’s Hunger, One Tilapia at a Time
PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI – Haiti is a country hungry for food. Poverty, natural disasters and a corrupt government have all contributed to what is…
Monsanto’s Stock Is Tanking. Is the Company’s Own Excitement About GMOs Backfiring?
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…
Kombit: The Cooperative, produced by Found Object films
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…
WHERE DOES SHE GO??
Juin 24, 2015 Someone once said 8 dead people is a disaster, while 6,000,000 is a compost heap. The human mind cannot wrap itself around…
Once-lush Haiti seeks to become verdant again-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Every day, come rain or shine, Yvon Elie checks on the tens of thousands of seedlings that hope to herald a greener future for Haiti,…
Hydropower development on a small scale in Haiti
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released for the sectors interested an environmental impact study of micro-power plant : Ravine du Sud and Saut Mathurine….
Tropical storm Erika could impact Florida this weekend
Residents of South Florida are closely eyeing Tropical Storm Erika, which could begin impacting Florida as early as Sunday or Monday. “I think we’ll have…
Tropical Storm Erika Spins Toward Caribbean, Path Unclear
by Erin McClam Tropical Storm Erika is drifting west toward the Caribbean, and forecasters say it could become a hurricane and brush close to Florida…
Puerto Rico, USVI prepare for weakening Hurricane Danny
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A weakening Hurricane Danny approached Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands on Saturday, but was expected to bring…
Chelsea Clinton Meets Moringa Farmers in Haiti
Chelsea Clinton in Haiti last week with two women farmers, Mercillie Romeus (left) and Marie Dorcelus (right), who are leaders in introducing moringa trees (such…
OAS calls for talks between Haiti, Dominican Republic
A deported Haitian man holds up his document that confirms he turned in paperwork to apply for legal residency in the Dominican Republic during a…
Self-Sufficiency—The Key to Haiti’s Future
Haiti can become more self-sufficient by attracting foreign investment. by Michelet Nestor If the cavern-like walls of the Sodeth Clinique Hospitaliere on Rue Tamarin, situated…
The ketchup sachet-shaped drug saving babies from HIV
By Daniel Pardo BBC Mundo Pregnant women who are HIV positive risk passing on the virus to their babies during pregnancy, labour, delivery or breast-feeding…
Sssh! Hurricane season forecast to stay quiet
Bo Petersen Reporting-FOLLY BEACH — They’re eyeing the tropics out here and they don’t like what they see. Surfers, that is. The hurricane season has…
Malaria vaccine gets go-ahead from European regulators
The world’s first malaria vaccine has been given the green light from European drugs regulators who recommend it should be licensed for use in babies…