The extraordinary story of how a large rural area of Ethiopia is taking itself out of poverty. Witness Last Modified: 10 Aug 2011 15:12 Directed by multi-award winning director Jamie Doran Remember Band Aid, Live Aid and developed countries’ determination to ‘Feed the World’? Well, we failed. There are more Africans living in extreme poverty [...]
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Burkina Faso: People no longer afraid Pierre Sidy 2011-05-26, Issue 531 Since the assassination of Thomas Sankara in 1987 and the reversing of the country’s revolutionary momentum, Blaise Compaoré has sustained himself through the use of terror and crime as a means of perpetuating his predatory regime, a regime marked by neglect, corruption and clan-based [...] The commodification of water and land in Mali Sékou Diarra 2011-06-07, Issue 533 Nowadays, politicians in Africa are generally more concerned with market efficiency, economic growth rates, productivity of financial capital and the security of the rich than they are about human rights and the security of the people. In African countries, if progress is [...] By NEIL MacFARQUHAR The New York Times Published: Thursday, December 23, 2010 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 9:07 p.m. SOUMOUNI, Mali – The half-dozen strangers who descended on this remote West African village brought its hand-to-mouth farmers alarming news: Their humble fields, tilled from one generation to the next, were [...] Black Gold asks us ‘to wake up and smell the coffee,’ to face the unjust conditions under which our favorite drink is produced and to decide what we can do about it. The film traces the tangled trail from the two billion cups of coffee consumed each day back to the coffee farmers who produce [...] The National (UAE) | Dec 20, 2010 Gavin du Venage Ghana and Qatar’s announcement that they will jointly farm 50,000 hectares of land is the latest in a sweeping, but controversial, trend rolling across Africa. Cash-rich countries are securing land in poorer states, which they hope will provide them with food security. African countries need [...] When Séda & Tiyéda Bawiena returned to Baga, their native village in Togo, they found it on the brink of ruin, devastated by decades of sustained exodus, bleak economic prospects and an increasingly infertile land. Yet armed with their unshakable faith in the riches and ways of their ancestral land, they founded the International Center [...] by Beverly Bell and Tory Field As we file this article, Port-au-Prince is thick with the smoke of burning tires and with gunfire. Towns throughout the country, along with the national airport, are shut down due to demonstrations. Many are angry over the government’s announcement on Tuesday night of which two presidential candidates made the [...] By the CNN Wire Staff November 19, 2010 4:59 p.m. EST Washington (CNN) — The U.S. Senate approved a $1.15 billion measure Friday to fund a settlement initially reached between the Agriculture Department and minority farmers more than a decade ago. The 1997 Pigford v. Glickman case against the U.S. Agriculture Department was settled out [...] November 3, 2010 | Posted by Nicole Smith in EDF Oceans General, Fishermen Voices, Seafood, South Atlantic A perk of working with fishermen is of course getting a chance to taste some of the best seafood around. When I learned that the Gullah/Geechee Fishing Association would organize its very first annual seafood festival, I didn’t [...] |
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