By Peter Con­stan­tini, IPS News
PÉTIONVILLE, (IPS) — Hait­ian farm­ers are wor­ried that giant transna­tional cor­po­ra­tions like Mon­santo are attempt­ing to gain a larger foothold in the …

Lati­nAmer­ica Press
A move­ment of Hait­ian farm­ers and other small-scale pro­duc­ers, have rejected a dona­tion by US agri­cul­tural giant Mon­santo. The Peas­ant Move­ment of Payaye has said …

June 14, 2010
Dr. Rajiv Shah
Admin­is­tra­tor
U.S. Agency for Inter­na­tional Devel­op­ment
1300 Penn­syl­va­nia Avenue, N.W.
Wash­ing­ton, D.C. 20523–1000
Dear Dr. Shah,
We write to you as Faith com­mu­ni­ties and allied …

By ADAM DAVIDSON and CAITLIN KENNEY, NPR Morn­ing Edi­tion
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Sebastien Narcisse, Students in a makeshift class­rom in l’Artibonite, Haiti.
L’Artibonite, a Hait­ian town two hours north …

By Bev­erly Bell, Huff­in­g­ton Post
A slo­gan of Haiti’s pop­u­lar move­ment — a group­ing of many orga­nized sec­tors, from community-based jour­nal­ists, to coop­er­a­tive street ven­dors, to children’s …

By Tequila Min­sky, Caribbean Life News
They marched from an agri­cul­tural train­ing cen­ter in Papay that exper­i­ments with dif­fer­ent meth­ods of grow­ing local food crops and trees. …

Pho­to­graph by: Natasha Fil­lion, The gazette
The key to Haiti’s sal­va­tion, says the man who would be pres­i­dent of the nation that has lan­guished in terminal …

By Bev­erly Bell, Huff­in­g­ton Post
“We’re for seeds that have never been touched by multi­na­tion­als. In our advo­cacy, we say that seeds are the pat­ri­mony of humanity. …

by Den­nis Sad­owski, Catholic News Ser­vice
WASHINGTON — Advo­cates for Hait­ian peas­ants said a U.S.-based company’s dona­tion of up to 475 tons of hybrid veg­etable seeds …