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Caritas advocacy experts plan for global campaign

20/04/2012 Advocacy, Agriculture, Food, Food waste, Malnutrition by Caritas Communications

As Abraham Lincoln put it, “If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my axe.” With that in mind, delegates of 20 Caritas members from around the world joined staff from Caritas regional offices and the Caritas Internationalis Secretariat in Rome this week to prepare for a year+ joint ...

West Africa’s food crisis at a glance

28/03/2012 Africa, Burkina, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Food, Mali, Malnutrition, Mauritania, Niger by Caritas Communications

What is the humanitarian situation in West Africa’s Sahel region? More than 12 million people will face acute food shortages in the Sahel region of West Africa unless early and effective action is taken now to prevent the crisis. People in Niger, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso and Chad are already suffering from a lack of ...

Helping Niger prepare for food crisis

27/03/2012 Africa, Agriculture, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Sahel, Food, Malnutrition by Caritas Communications

The crisis is threatening the Sahel region of Africa—the band of land below the Sahara desert, extending from Senegal to Chad. In a normal year, the Sahel receives on average as little as 78 to 236 inches of rain. Last year’s rains were poor and the harvests bad or non-existent.

Niger: the worst food crisis we can remember

15/03/2012 Africa, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Sahel, Food, Mali, Malnutrition by Caritas Communications

In a normal year, the harvest in November would produce enough food for the people in the village to last all year. But the harvest last year was disastrous, and people in Mintou’s village have already run out of food.

Averting crisis in West Africa’s Sahel

14/02/2012 Advocacy, Africa, Burkina, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Sahel, Food, Malnutrition by Caritas Communications

Zaki can’t afford to feed his family this year. He’s a young teacher in Burkina Faso. It’s one of a string of West African countries where food is getting scarce. The price of corn has increased so much Zaki can’t afford to buy it. His family must rely on their reserves of rice, but supplies dwindle each day.

Radio interview: Kenya food crisis

20/01/2012 Africa, Blog, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Food, Kenya, Malnutrition by Caritas Communications

While Caritas and other aid agencies have helped millions of East Africans through the worst of the region’s food crisis, more remains to be done. Susan Hodges of Vatican Radio interviews Caritas’ Laura Sheahen about her visit to Caritas projects in Kenya–and about the ongoing impact of the 2011 drought. Listen to the interview

Photo gallery: fighting hunger in East Africa

15/12/2011 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Ethiopia, Food, Kenya, Malnutrition by Caritas Communications

“Mothers said their children were too weak to walk to the clinic,” says a nurse who treated malnourished people in northern Kenya during the worst of 2011’s drought. Throughout East Africa, poor rains led to hunger on a massive scale. By late 2011, your gifts had turned things around. Caritas immediately distributed emergency food, but ...

No Plan B in Ethiopia

20/10/2011 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Food, Malnutrition by Caritas Communications

The food crisis in East Africa hit the headlines over the summer. Resources were mobilised around the world to support communities in need as drought in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia put millions of people in peril. Val Morgan of SCIAF (Caritas Scotland) reports from southern Ethiopia that although the news attention may have moved on, ...

World Food Day: Calling for action against hunger at FAO

17/10/2011 Advocacy, Agriculture, Blog, Food, Malnutrition by Caritas Communications

By Martina Liebsch, Caritas Internationalis Policy Director I listened to Didi Bridgewater, walked past Claudia Cardinale, stood next to Jeremy Irons, saw Carl Lewis and took the elevator with Carla Fracci. What do you want more for a day? But where is the connection to food? All these celebrities are good-will ambassadors for the UN’s ...

Church and Caritas leaders discuss East Africa food crisis

7/10/2011 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Food, Kenya, Malnutrition by Caritas Communications

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pNYdUwe2zHA] “He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside still waters.” It’s a phrase known to Christians around the world, one of the most beloved verses of a beloved psalm. It was the psalm Pope Benedict XVI referred to during his weekly audience Wednesday 5 October which ended with an appeal ...