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New challenges for the people of Lake Chad

30/10/2012 Africa, Agriculture, Aid Success Story, Chad, Climate Change, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Sahel, Food, Malnutrition by Caritas Communications

Balama was a village once located on the shores of Lake Chad, in the east of the county. Since the 1960s, the lake has been greatly reduced. A changing climate and uncontrolled use of water for irrigated agricultures combined with population pressure, has led to the receding of the lake to 10 percent of its original surface.

The women’s committee of Hadj al-Dérib in Chad

30/10/2012 Africa, Agriculture, Aid Success Story, Chad, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Sahel, Female face of migration, Food, Malnutrition, Migration by Caritas Communications

It is only natural that the women work together in the field in Hadj al-Dérib. All 120 women of the village are members of a committee, which takes care of the cultivation of various crops as well as the granary and the mill. Each committee has a president, a vice-president and a secretary.

Tide turns in Kreghané, Chad

In August 2011, when it stopped raining during the days of cultivation of the land, not all grain was sown. The amount of grain that grew during the following weeks was a lot less than during a normal year. Cornfields have also been plagued by the locusts just before harvest time.

World Food Day: Fighting poverty by supporting small-scale agriculture

16/10/2012 Advocacy, Agriculture, Climate Change, Food, Malnutrition by Caritas Communications

By Ryan Worms, Caritas Internationalis “I want to set-up a small business to sell rice, flour and sugar. The last time, I made a tidy profit. I need 1000 gourdes (US$25),” says Ariette Tessono. Ariette is one of the members of the solidarity fund set up by Caritas in Labiche, in the south of Haiti. ...

UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food

21/09/2012 Advocacy, Agriculture, Food by Caritas Communications

UN Special Rapporteur on the “Right to Food”, Mr. Olivier de Schutte was interviewed by Caritas Europa. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GY3LhxkWK0&w=560&h=315] A video interview with Mr. Olivier de Schutter will be screened at a High Level Panel at the European Development Days, organised by Caritas Europa, Caritas Belgium, CIDSE and Cyprus NGO Development Platform (CYNDEP), on 17 ...

Chad’s women gardeners

14/06/2012 Africa, Agriculture, Chad, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Sahel, Europe, Food, Malnutrition, Switzerland by Caritas Communications

The village of Chawir is located in Canton Migami, south-central Chad (West Africa). Like almost everywhere in the area, the locals are almost exclusively women and children. Of the 2,760 inhabitants of Chawir, only 120 are adult men.

Caritas at Rio + 20

12/06/2012 Advocacy, Agriculture, Climate Change, Development, Food, High-Level Meetings and Events, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development to be held in Rio de Janeiro on 20-22 June is expected to represent a new stage in the political process that began back of 1972. Ever since the UN Stockholm Conference on Human Environment, political leaders have been discussing how to reconcile human development needs with environmental ...

Let’s take the bread and share it

4/06/2012 Advocacy, Agriculture, Blog, Food by Caritas Communications

By Martina Liebsch, Caritas Internationalis Policy and Advocacy Director I start with a loaf of bread: Our daily bread. We need to share it and more importantly provide people the seeds, knowledge and resources to grow it in an often hostile environment. At Mass following the opening day of the Future without Hunger Congress in ...

Un avenir libéré de la faim n’est pas une utopie

1/06/2012 Advocacy, Agriculture, Blog, Food, Français by Caritas Communications

Par Ryan Worms « La faim dans le monde n’est pas une fatalité, c’est une tragédie qui pourrait être évitée. » Par ces mots, le cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, président de Caritas Internationalis, a mis de l’avant le constat qui mobilise les participants du Congrès sur la faim dans le monde et la sécurité alimentaire ...

Future without Hunger – Congress on Global Hunger

15/05/2012 Advocacy, Agriculture, Austria, Climate Change, Europe, Food, Food waste, Malnutrition by Caritas Communications

Caritas is hosting a congress on Global Hunger and Sustainable Food Security – 1st and 2nd of June 2012 in Vienna Live stream from the Future without Hunger Conference. Cardinal Rodriguez about to speak. | Read the key note speech by Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga (pdf) 925 million people worldwide are starving. Every 12 seconds, a child dies of ...