News From Haiti: Turning Earth Into Gold
It is hard to hear anything positive about Haiti amid the cacophony of alarms being sounded about the dire state of the nation. And while...
View ArticleOpen Letter About Food Aid to Haiti
Dear Development Aid Agencies and International Institutions Active in Haiti, Our respective organizations provide a wide range of services in agriculture, healthcare and community development...
View ArticleU.S. Lawmakers Urge USAID to Ensure Food Security in Haiti
This week 41 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed a letter to USAID Administrator Samantha Power urging her to act to ensure food...
View ArticleU.S. Lawmakers Urge USAID to Ensure Food Security in Haiti
This week 41 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed a letter to USAID Administrator Samantha Power urging her to act to ensure food...
View ArticleMagnolia species lost to science for 97 years rediscovered in Haiti
Conservationists find native magnolia for first time since 1925 after original habitat destroyed by deforestation A conservation team has rediscovered a native magnolia tree in...
View ArticlePersonal Remembrance of Mikhail Gorbachev
I first met Mikhail Gorbachev in 1992 in Kyoto, Japan, when he was less than one year out of office. Although we went on to...
View ArticleLearn About Regenerative Agriculture on Sept 21st in NYC
If you will be in New York City on September 21st, we would like to invite you to attend an in-person panel presentation at Columbia...
View ArticleFood Sovereignty in Haiti – Part One
This is the first of a two-part article. Haiti is dependent on food from outside the country, despite being a nation of farmers with tremendous...
View ArticleFood Sovereignty in Haiti – Part Two
his is the second installment of a two-part article. Click here to read part one. The gangs running rampant in Haiti have created a...
View ArticleCOP27 : qui est Tony Rinaudo, l’homme surnommé le “faiseur de forêts” ?
Il s’appelle Tony Rinaudo et fait des “miracles”. Grâce à la technique de cet agronome, des millions d’arbres ont repoussé en plein désert. Il tente...
View ArticleU.S. Blocks Dominican Republic Sugar Imports, Citing Forced Labor
NY Times: US authorities will block imports of sugar produced in the Dominican Republic by company Central Romana, on suspicion of forced labor at its...
View ArticleWould you like to live longer? Consider planting a tree.
Put down the apple. It’s the tree that can help keep the doctor away. In urban areas, trees shade sidewalks, absorb air pollution, deaden traffic...
View ArticleFarmers United to Help Feed and Reforest Haiti
Haiti is a nation in chaos, but that is not the whole story. There is progress being made, even in the midst of the current...
View ArticleSeeding Change in Haiti
A young Haitian tree planter was chosen for the cover of The VF Foundation’s Third Annual Impact Report released last week. Included among the impressive examples...
View ArticleHaitian Farmers Play Key Role in New Global Agricultural Movement
A network of small farms in rural Haiti is at the forefront of a new global agricultural movement called regenerative agriculture. That this should be...
View ArticleSupporting and Saving the New Regenerative Revolution
A radically new approach to farming is taking the agricultural world by storm, but it is already under attack from greenwashing. This new methodology has...
View ArticlePlanting Trees in Haiti to Help Save the Planet
According to Dr. Thomas Crowther, professor of ecology at the Swiss university ETH Zurich, we seem to being planting trees the right way in Haiti....
View ArticleFour Stories of Hope and Possibility From Haiti
We would like to end the year with four stories from the Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA) in Haiti that offer hope and suggest possibility...
View ArticleFood Sovereignty in Haiti – Part Two
his is the second installment of a two-part article. Click here to read part one. The gangs running rampant in Haiti have created a...
View ArticleCOP27 : qui est Tony Rinaudo, l’homme surnommé le “faiseur de forêts” ?
Il s’appelle Tony Rinaudo et fait des “miracles”. Grâce à la technique de cet agronome, des millions d’arbres ont repoussé en plein désert. Il tente...
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