Food Archives - Page 29 of 30

Desertification in India

26/09/2009 Asia, Climate Change, Food, India by Caritas Internationalis

In recent times, the loss of vegetation in the area has vastly degraded their once fertile land, and water has become a rare commodity. Since 1999, the failure of the monsoon has adversely affected the soil and the land has become barren. In order to regenerate it, ravines and ridges were treated by constructing gully ...

Caritas imagines a world for tomorrow’s generation

26/09/2009 Advocacy, Africa, Climate Change, Food, Malawi by Caritas Internationalis

Gilbert Mavuka has lived in Chilijemalo village in Malawi since he was born forty years ago. Over the last decade he has seen dramatic changes in the weather with frequent floods and droughts, strange infestations of disease, and declines in his farm output.

Imagine a world for tomorrow’s generation: Adaptation is not enough

26/09/2009 Advocacy, Climate Change, Food by Caritas Internationalis

Caritas works on helping communities adapt to the effects of climate change, from building cyclone shelters in Bangladesh to early warning systems in West Africa’s drought-prone Sahel region. There has been success in limiting the deaths from natural disasters in recent decades. While Cyclone Sidr killed around 3,000 people in Bangladesh in 2007, similar or ...

Imagine a world for tomorrow’s generation: A view from Poznan and India

26/09/2009 Advocacy, Asia, Climate Change, Europe, Food, India, Meetings & Events, Poland by Caritas Internationalis

A view from Poznan Grow Climate Justice Campaign was launched on 7 December in Poznan. “People in countries such as Bangladesh are totally dependent on the weather,” Bishop Theotonius Gomes C.S.C, Bishop of Dhaka and President of Caritas Bangladesh said at the launch. “Our agriculture, and hence our whole culture, is based on water from ...

Imagine a world for tomorrow’s generation: Grow Climate Justice

26/09/2009 Advocacy, Climate Change, Europe, Food, Poland by Caritas Internationalis

Caritas is calling for justice for the poor in developing countries who are most impacted by the adverse effects of climate change despite having done least to create it. Caritas launched the “Grow Climate Justice Campaign” at the end of 2008 during a UN conference on climate change in Poznan, Poland. Industrialised countries are responsible ...

Climate change talks in Bonn key to future hopes

26/09/2009 Advocacy, Climate Change, Europe, Food, Germany by Caritas Internationalis

Governments met June 1-12th in Bonn, Germany to discuss a negotiating text for a new deal on climate change. Caritas members from Europe, Asia, and Africa will be at the UNFCCC meeting to lobby negotiators for a text that reflects the needs of the poor. Bonn is a stepping stone to approving a post 2012 ...

Irrigation eases Ethiopia’s crop crisis

26/09/2009 Africa, Climate Change, Ethiopia, Food by Caritas Internationalis

As we crest the mountain top, a sweeping view of emerald fields, soaring mesas and scattered farms spreads in front of us. It’s difficult to believe that the farmers in the distance are facing a critical food shortage. As we wind down the hill though, we get a closer look at the fields and what ...

Caritas Bangladesh: Anup’s Story

26/09/2009 Asia, Bangladesh, Climate Change, Food by Caritas Internationalis

Bangladesh, one of the world’s poorest nations, is also the country most vulnerable to rises in sea-level. The population has already been severely affected by storm surges and catastrophic events in the past have caused damage 100 kilometres inland and the encroachment of the sea has salinated arable land. It is hard to imagine what these ...

Calls for climate justice to world leaders

17/09/2009 Advocacy, Climate Change, Development, Food, High-Level Meetings and Events by Caritas Internationalis

In support of the CIDSE-Caritas Internationalis campaign for Climate Justice, a delegation of Bishops and climate experts from the developed and developing world will be in New York on the occasion of the High-Level Meeting on Climate Change on 22 September 2009. Together they will personally meet world leaders and ask them to give a ...

Zimbabwe’s hunger

2/09/2009 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Food, Humanitarian Crisis in Zimbabwe, Malnutrition, Zimbabwe by Caritas Internationalis

Children in Zimbabwe are fainting at school from hunger – well at least in the schools where there are teachers. The cost of travelling to their job and buying lunch is often too much for their small salaries.