Agriculture
In Somaliland, a bowl of food opens school doors for girls
In drought-affected Somaliland, daily meals eaten at school are nourishing more than bodies and minds. With food on the table, children—especially girls—are returning to school, families are breathing easier, and entire communities are growing stronger.
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Haiti: Violence and displacement in the capital, yet provincial work continues
A long-simmering crisis in Haiti has escalated over the last few weeks, resulting in unprecedented spikes in gang violence which have shut down the country’s airports, disrupted movement of people and goods, and displaced over 362,000 people inside the country.
Read MoreSudan: farming during wartime
In East Darfur, women and girls still largely earn a living through agriculture, working hard on land owned by their families to produce food and cash crops. Yet they often see few of the proceeds when crops are sold. Their agricultural fortunes have begun to change through a CARE Sudan program which helps women establish vegetable gardens for both food and income, and has also assisted herders wi
Read MoreCARE celebrates International Coffee Day
With roughly three billion cups enjoyed around the world every day, coffee is the planet’s second-most popular beverage – behind only water. Coffee farming forms an important part of the economy in many of the countries where CARE works, where women compose some 70 percent of the workforce and operate between 20 and 30 percent of the farms.
Read MoreFarming in Lebanon: “This isn’t a country of dreams”
This isn’t the country of dreams; it’s the country of misery. Really. We are without electricity, medical care. We are deprived of everything. There’s nothing. So, my dreams for my country? For it to become a just country among all the Lebanese people.
Read MoreWar in the Breadbasket of Europe: Sergij’s Story
Sergij Koziura is a Ukrainian farmer in “the breadbasket of Europe.” Last year, the country exported six to seven million tons of grain per month, but since the war began, nearly 22 million tons of grain have been trapped inside the country, unable to get to port. The UN estimates that these disruptions have already driven 70 million people around the world closer to starvation. Sergij is at the c
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