HAITI / FORESTS
A new program in Haiti is taking care of the deforestation issue by replanting pine trees. MINUSTAH
A new program in Haiti is taking care of the deforestation issue by replanting pine trees. MINUSTAH
A government project in the small West African nation of The Gambia has so far reclaimed more than 34,000 hectares of degraded land for agricultural use. IFAD
Few plants thrive at altitudes of over 4,000 metres, where soil is poor, water scarce and the winters harsh. But farmers in the High Andes of Peru can grow varieties of sturdy grains, such as barley, that can survive under extreme weather conditions. These have been developed with a plant breeding technique that uses radiation [...]
Eking out any kind of life in the Sahel is tough, but a group of women in north western Burkina Faso are turning their corner of this harsh, arid region into a lush and productive garden. UNICEF
The United Nations today marked World Food Day by highlighting agricultural cooperatives as vital weapon in the war on poverty and hunger. FAO
Nearly 870 million people, or one in eight in the world, suffered from chronic undernourishment in 2010-2012, according to a new UN hunger report released today (9 October) in Rome. FAO
At World Water Week inStockholm next week, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will promote ways to produce more food despite increasing water scarcity. IFAD
Even as one in seven of the world’s people go hungry, about a third of global food production gets lost or wasted – a problem that will be on the agenda at this month’s UN Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development. In Gambia, two years of crop failures and soaring food prices have left more than [...]
UNICEF says the nutritional crisis in Chad is being compounded by one of the world’s lowest rates of breastfeeding – only three mothers out of every hundred exclusively breastfeed their children. UNICEF
After ten years of civil war, farmers in Ivory Coast are taking advantage of the good prospects for security, political stability and making up for lost time. So far over 800 farmers have been trained to grow quality rice seeds, as well as maize, yams and cassava through a project financed by the European Union [...]