AgricultureEconomic developmentFoodFood ProductionHuman & Civil RightsLabourLatin AmericaPodcastsWomen & Girls
Small farmers in the hills of Honduras are improving their lives through seed saving and on-farm experimentation. Jen Moore reports.
Agriculture
Listen, Read, Watch
AfricaAgricultureCitiesFood ProductionHuman & Civil RightsHuman habitatHuman settlementsPodcastsWomen & Girls
During South Africa’s Apartheid years, black families were routinely evicted from their land. Women and girls fared the worst. Sixteen years after the collapse of Apartheid, life in South Africa is as difficult as it’s ever been for women.
Agriculture is the backbone of Tanzania’s life and economy. Three quarters of her people are small-scale, peasant farmers. Policies that empower farmers — particularly women — need to be implemented.
Afghanistan produces ninety percent of the world’s heroin. The Canadian and U.S. governments admit the Taliban controls this drug trade.
AgricultureArts & CultureConflictConflict & EnvironmentConsumerismEconomic developmentMiddle EastPeace & ConflictPodcastsTourism & Travel
Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley has produced wine for over four thousand years. That tradition continues today, with Lebanon boasting some world-class reds. But vintners have had to deal with fundamentalists, civil war, and invading armies.
Ethiopia is renowned for the diversity of its seeds, with native resistance to drought, pests and climate change. Listen to 1989 Right Livelihood Award winner Melaku Worede talk about seed diversity in his homeland, Ethiopia.
Activism & SolidarityAgricultureArts & CultureConflictConflict & EnvironmentEconomic developmentFoodFood ProductionMiddle EastPeace & ConflictPodcastsWomen & Girls
Southern Lebanese farmers are in a bind. On the one hand, Israeli cluster bombs continue to pollute their fields. On the other hand, they’ve been abandoned by Lebanon’s political elite, who prefer to see Lebanon import its food.
AfricaAgricultureArts & CultureCommunicationsEconomic developmentEducationFoodHealthMediaPodcastsTechnology
It’s hard to imagine a development tool more powerful than a radio station. For the past few years, a little station called FADECO has been promoting rural development in the community of Karagwe, in northwest Tanzania.
By its very nature, water can only be successfully managed by consensus. When conflicts arise, smart solutions are often the exception. Nowhere are water conflicts more common than in the landlocked South American nation of Bolivia.
AgricultureConsumerismEconomic developmentFoodForestsHealthLatin AmericaToxicsWaste ManagementWaterWomen & Girls
Here’s another dispatch from Victoria Fenner, who spent an action and learning-filled three weeks in Central America earlier in the year. It’s hard to visit Central America and not explore the world of coffee, so here we go.
AgricultureArts & CultureConflictConflict & EnvironmentEconomic developmentLatin AmericaPeace & ConflictPodcastsTourism & TravelWomen & Girls
Of all the conflicts in Latin America, none was more brutal or costly in human lives than the forty-year civil war in Guatemala. Today, former rebels are presenting their perspective of the struggle–to tourists.
On the bottom of a mountain slope in Honduras, farming communities depend on fresh waters and are trying to keep them clean.
AgricultureAir & Water QualityConflict & EnvironmentEconomic developmentHuman habitatLatin AmericaWater
Three quarters of Earth’s surface is covered in water. Most of this vast mass of water is salty, a mere two percent fit to drink. You’d think we’d conserve what’s so scarce and valuable. It isn’t always so. Bolivians are trying hard.
AgricultureChildrenCivil & Political RightsConflictConflict & EnvironmentEconomic developmentFoodFood ProductionHuman & Civil RightsHuman settlementsMiddle EastPalestine & IsraelPalestinians & IsraelisPeace & ConflictPodcasts
Palestinian farmers face a myriad of challenges. In the “West Bank,” Israel’s so-called “Security Barrier” has walled them off from their olive and vegetable groves. Farmers in Gaza are liable to be shot by soldiers manning Israel’s “security” perimeter.
Rwandans have grown rice, bananas, tea and coffee for generations. On one mountainside, villagers earn extra money processing their own coffee beans — thanks to a fellow Rwandan educated in Canada.
Latest Comments
[…] Toxic pollution is not just an urban problem, as the purple haze hovering over Alberta’s lovely Lochend district suggests. Past GPM stories have focused