Tag: water

8 May 2012 | Joel M Bassuk

In the Sahel region of West Africa, families are facing a grim reality. A food crisis is now threatening more than 15 miillion people. Without help they won't get enough to eat.

Drought, poor harvets, and high prices in the market are part of the problem -- and so is poverty. It forces farmers and herders to make impossible choices: If they sell their tools and livestock now, to get money to get food, then how will they make a living later when the rains return?

11 April 2012 | Jeremy Hobbs

Hunger affects about 1 billion people around the world, and as the economic crisis continues, the push for growth can actually make matters worse.

18 October 2011 | Coco McCabe