Agriculture Archives - Page 8 of 9

Planting seeds of recovery after Pakistan’s floods

27/07/2011 Agriculture, Aid Success Story, Asia, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Pakistan, Food, Pakistan by Caritas Communications

Ghulam Akber clutches his bag of cotton seed and knows he is holding his future. The seeds are the key to 22-year-old Ghulam rebuilding his life. More than anything, he needs a new house. But to get a new house, he needs money; to get money, he needs a crop; to get a crop, he ...

Changing lives in Bangladesh

20/07/2011 Advocacy, Agriculture, Asia, Bangladesh, Climate Change, Conflicts and Disasters, Development, Disaster Preparedness, Food, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

By Caritas Bangladesh staff Fishing for crabs in the vast mangrove forest of the Sundarbans in Bangladesh is a dangerous way to make a living. A local poem says you always have a ‘shiver of fear’ as you travel the complex network of waterways, mudflats and small islands because the Royal Bengal Tiger does not ...

Promoting the rights of farmers in Asia

20/07/2011 Advocacy, Agriculture, Asia, Food by Caritas Communications

Caritas Asia members promote organic agriculture and farmers’ rights across the region through the Sustainable Agriculture and Farmers’ Rights (SAFaR) programme. The Farmers’ Conference (FC) is one of the major yearly events of the programme. Here grassroots level farmers gather together, learn and share their concerns and raise their voice to protect their rights. We ...

The sun also rises in Mongolia

24/01/2011 Advocacy, Agriculture, Asia, Food, Mongolia by Caritas Communications

Growing grains and vegetables is not the main profession of Mongolians and not even a priority for them. The nomadic people prefer keeping herds and love to eat meat. The number of animals is much higher than the number of humans.

Soaring food costs hitting poor from Algeria to India

19/01/2011 Advocacy, Agriculture, Algeria, Asia, Development, Food, India, Malnutrition, Middle East & North Africa, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

Millions of people around the world are struggling to cope with rising food prices say Caritas staff. “The price rises in India usually affect the poorest people, but they are now so steep that the middle class is hit hard as well,” said Sunil Simon, in charge of natural resource management at Caritas India. The ...

World Food Day: One in six people go hungry

14/10/2010 Advocacy, Agriculture, Development, Food, Malnutrition, SDG by Caritas Communications

“We urgently need to concentrate on rehabilitation and prevention to stop more crises in the next years”, said Raymond Younoussi Yoro, Secretary General of Caritas Niger. Niger was hit by a major food crisis this year that affected around 60% of the population. It’s one of the many countries around the world where starvation is ...

Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand on climate change in rural Nepal

13/10/2010 Advocacy, Agriculture, Asia, Climate Change, Food, Nepal, New Zealand, Oceania by Caritas Communications

by Martin de Jong, Caritas New Zealand Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand and Caritas Nepal have recently completed production of a 15-minute video looking at climate change in rural Nepal. The video will provide a core resource for Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand’s programme in schools for Lent 2011, and is also expected to interest a wider ...

A desert garden in Chad

23/06/2010 Africa, Agriculture, Chad, Climate Change, Food by Caritas Communications

Granite hills mark the horizon. The ground is carpeted with rocks. Apart from the dried up river beds (ouaddis) there is nowhere for vegetation to grow. Thorny shrubs are the only desert plant life. Nature is hostile in Eastern Chad. “Annual rainfall normally varies from 300 to 500 mm,” said Adoumadji, an agricultural technician working ...

Coping with drought in India

26/05/2010 Advocacy, Agriculture, Asia, Climate Change, Food, India by Caritas Communications

Bara is a village situated in the drought-prone area in Jharkhand State in eastern India. Difficult climate conditions and complete dependency on rain means that farmers only produce one crop per year. The agricultural yield was extremely low. Since the villagers had few opportunities for other types of employment in the area, they migrated to ...

Why does West Africa face another food crisis?

19/02/2010 Advocacy, Africa, Agriculture, Burkina, Chad, Climate Change, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Sahel, Food, Mali, Malnutrition, Niger, Senegal by Caritas Communications

Food emergencies are not inevitable in the Sahel according to Caritas. The region and the international community need to show greater political will to fight the problems.