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CARITAS INTERNATIONALIS URGES IMMEDIATE ACTION TO ADDRESS THE SEVERE DROUGHT AND FOOD INSECURITY IN THE HORN OF AFRICA AND IN THE SAHEL

18/07/2022 Africa, Agriculture, Burkina, Chad, Climate Change, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Sahel, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Food, Food Crisis, Food waste, Kenya, Mali, Malnutrition, Mauritania, Migration, Niger, South Sudan, Sudan by daniele piccini

With the close of the 50th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva this month, Caritas Internationalis is urging international and local leaders to take action in responding to the severe food insecurity in the Horn of Africa and the Sahel regions. The right to food is a basic human right and the implementation ...

URGENT ACTION NEEDED TO ADDRESS THE SEVERE DROUGHT AND FOOD INSECURITY IN THE HORN OF AFRICA AND IN THE SAHEL

7/07/2022 Africa, Agriculture, Climate Change, Food, Malnutrition by daniele piccini

In the face of multiple crisis, the suffering of people in the Horn of Africa and Sahel regions is not to be forgotten. The international community and countries in the region must respond immediately to avert a full-scale food and nutrition emergency and save lives. As the 50 th Session of the Human Rights Council ...

Put the dignity of the human person, not private interests, at the center of all food policies

22/09/2021 Advocacy, Africa, Agriculture, Asia, Climate Change, Europe, Food, Food waste, Latin America, Malnutrition, Middle East & North Africa, North America, Oceania by Caritas Communications

As world leaders gather on September 23rd for the UN Food Systems Summit, Caritas Confederation expresses its concerns and reaffirms its core values about the future of food systems.

Caritas Internationalis: “Industrial agriculture is not the only pathway to food justice”

27/07/2021 Agriculture, Climate Change, Food, Food waste, Malnutrition by Francesca Frezza

On the occasion of the UN food systems pre-summit in Rome, Caritas Internationalis urges decision makers to include the rights of the poor in all discussions and to ensure meaningful participation of local producers and consumers, especially women, in policymaking and implementation at the local levels.

Caritas urges governments to address the root causes of fast-growing central Sahel crisis and to empower local leaders

3/11/2020 Africa, Agriculture, Burkina, Climate Change, Food, Mali, Malnutrition, Niger by Caritas Communications

Caritas urged governments, local leaders and donors to act in Africa’s central Sahel, which is facing one of the world’s fastest-growing crises.

Goats save people from hunger in Niger

16/10/2020 Africa, Agriculture, Benin, Climate Change, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Food, Food waste, Mali, Malnutrition, Niger by Caritas Communications

Caritas Niger’s livelihood programme aims to improve the lives of smallholder farmers in Niger by boosting production.

Caritas Internationalis on World Food Day: “Because of the pandemic, the most vulnerable are more deprived of their right of access to food. Global community must act”

15/10/2020 Africa, Agriculture, Asia, Climate Change, Development, Europe, Food, Food waste, Latin America, Malnutrition, Middle East & North Africa, News, North America, Oceania, Poverty Elimination, Press Release, SDG by Caritas Communications

Caritas believes that 11 percent of the world's population lives in hunger is an issue that must be addressed with strong political will and commitment.

Zambia facing one of its worst droughts in decades

17/02/2020 Africa, Agriculture, Climate Change, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Food by Caritas Communications

Caritas aids communities in Zambia as they cope with the impact of droughts and help them build resilience against future climate crises.

Synod on the Amazon: interconnecting human beings, nature and God

7/10/2019 Agriculture, Brazil, Climate Change, Food, Latin America, News, Press Release by Caritas Communications

Catholic organisations and movements came together with the Church and the Amazonian peoples to pray, reflect and prepare for an integral ecology -one that represents the web of life interconnecting human beings, nature and God.

How climate change impacts people’s fundamental rights

24/11/2015 Advocacy, Africa, Agriculture, Blog, Climate Change, Ethiopia, Food, Malnutrition by Caritas Communications

Without the leadership of Europe and other industrialised countries, strategies to mitigate climate change will not be successful.