(adds task force on food security) ROME, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Only 8 percent of a $23 million appeal to help Haiti revive food production after a devastating earthquake has been funded, the U.N. Food ...

Bill Erdmann was at the tail end of a week-long trip to Haiti when he realized for sure that he was on to something. In November, Erdmann, 55, of Ridge, had gone to a small Haitian village on an ...

CHICAGO, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Haiti has recorded its first outbreak of the fatal pig virus African swine fever in 37 years, the World Organisation for Animal Health said, fueling concerns about the ...

A new feasibility study entitled Cotton: Export Market Potential for Smallholder Farmers in Haiti makes a case for reintroducing a crop that was once the country’s fourth-largest agricultural export, ...

MIREBALAIS, Haiti— Things were just starting to turn around for the better in Haiti when the earthquake hit in 2010. It had been a couple of years since the new government had improved security and ...

Leonid Eustache coaxes a small rice crop out of his tiny plot in Pont-Sonde, Haiti. But he could use some help from his government. He can't afford fertilizer. His only tool is a hoe. And half of his ...

ORISKA, N.D. — It was 18 years ago in Haiti when John Draxton broke one of the rules of his mission trip. “They tell you not to give your number out, not to give your email out, because they’re going ...

Earth ‘N’ Us is a permaculture farm that resides smack in the middle of Little Haiti. Ray Chasser’s house and surrounding land is home to emus, roosters, pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, goats, and ...

Hit by deadly floods, Indonesians in the region around Aceh Tamiang are grappling with worsening diseases and a lack of medical care as workers struggled to help dozens of residents at the lone ...