Doña Marlene and Don Ramiro: inspiring change in Nicaragua

Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 Posted in América Latina y Caribe, Blogs in English, Nicaragua | No Comments »

[caption id="attachment_3592" align="alignleft" width="300"] Don Ramiro and Doña Marlene with their family[/caption] A smile cuts through Don Ramiro´s stern face as he sits on the porch of his small farm in Siuna, in the North East of Nicaragua, and he tells ...

How big of a change are we making?

Friday, February 8th, 2013 Posted in Blogs in English, Haití | No Comments »

A few days ago, our Statistics Consultant, Sylvia, sent me this article (http://on.wsj.com/XC6yQx) in which Bill Gates states that the first step towards solving the world’s problems is to measure them. This is not a nerdy statistician’s point of view; ...

HAITI: Three earthquake commemorations, three steps in reconstruction

Thursday, January 10th, 2013 Posted in Blogs in English, Haití | 2 Comments »

I can’t believe it’s been 3 years already since the earthquake hit in January 2010. I wasn’t in Haiti for “le 12” (“the 12th” a local term to refer to the earthquake), I didn’t witness the mayhem and great solidarity ...

Mistura and policies to promote small agriculture

Monday, September 24th, 2012 Posted in Blogs in English, Campaña CRECE, Uncategorized | No Comments »

[caption id="attachment_3302" align="alignleft" width="198"] Productos campesinos. Honduras.Francisco Pavón/Oxfam[/caption] Giovanna Vasquez Luque, Grow Campaign coordinator in Peru, shares the challenges faced after the gastronomic fair Mistura to promote public policies in favor of small agriculture.

Haiti: A little is really too much

Monday, August 27th, 2012 Posted in Blogs in English, Haití | No Comments »

August 26, 2012, 5h00pm Today is Sunday. In fact, it is not a very sunny day, but for many of us this is normal. It only rains every once in a while, and very little water can be seen lying stagnant in the ...

Haiti: camp dwellers in the eye of the hurricane

Sunday, August 26th, 2012 Posted in Blogs in English, Haití | No Comments »

Friday 24th August 2012 at 3.07pm: strong winds and intermittent rains accompanying the tropical storm are battering the south coast of the country. In Port-au-Prince the light breeze is considered with apprehension, with people fearing that it will be replaced ...

Know more about our work in Colombia during 2011

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012 Posted in Blogs in English, Colombia | No Comments »

To read the full report 2011, make  click on the image.

Food Heroines

Thursday, March 8th, 2012 Posted in Blogs in English, México | No Comments »

The cold fronts that occurred in the north of Chiapas and Tabasco between October and December 2007 had a severe impact on many communities. Heavy rains, landslides, flash floods and ensuing floods destroyed crops and killed backyard animals, a traditional ...

FOOD HEROINES IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Thursday, March 8th, 2012 Posted in Blogs in English, República Dominicana | No Comments »

Daisy de los Reyes Castillo Casado.  Small farmer in the Dry  Forest region, in the southeast of the Azua province. Member of the executive committee of the Dry Forest Producers’ Federation and Articulación Nacional Campesina. Daisy has lived all her life ...

Raquel Vazquez: “A Women making the difference in the food security in Guatemala”

Thursday, March 8th, 2012 Posted in Blogs in English, Guatemala | No Comments »

[caption id="attachment_2669" align="alignleft" width="253" caption="Raquel Vásquez at her home in La Guadalupe."][/caption] Raquel Vásquez, 37, is a leader of the La Guadalupe indigenous community, in the Guatemalan municipality of Santo Domingo (Suchitepéquez).  She became a leader in the 1980’s while living ...