Sécurité alimentaire

‘Our people are struggling simply to survive’: Horn of Africa experiencing worst famine since WWII

FAMINE in the Horn of Africa is shaping as the biggest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War, an Australian Catholic aid expert says. It is…

Afrique : urgence famines !

Des millions d'Africains, victimes des conflits armés, des tensions ethniques et de la sècheresse, souffrent de la faim. Du Soudan du Sud à l'Ethiopie, de la…

Détérioration de la sécurité alimentaire au Burundi

UK aid agencies respond to East Africa hunger crisis

(Vatican Radio) Aid agencies are stepping up their efforts to help 16 million people facing starvation across East Africa. The dire situation in the affected countries…

Severe Drought Brings Starving Kenyans to Church Doorsteps

When her pantry runs dry, Agnes Mwikali walks down a dusty road to the local Roman Catholic Church mission. There, beyond the metal gate and the…

Holy See: World must work for integral human development

(Vatican Radio) The Vatican’s representative to the United Nations has decried the fact that hundreds of millions of people still face hunger and undernourishment, in a…

Caritas feeding school children in drought-stricken Zimbabwe

(Vatican Radio) Zimbabwe is one of several Southern African countries affected by the El Niño weather system that’s led to unusual weather patterns and 21 million…

Millions of drought-hit Zimbabweans face hunger

Up to 4.5 million people in Zimbabwe, a third of the population, have been left without enough food following one of the lowest rainfalls in 35…

CARITAS Ghana launches report on land grabbing

CARITAS Ghana of the Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference has held a National Policy Dialogue on a report on land grabbing in Ghana.Land grabbing is the acquisition…

Hoping for rain in drought-ridden Ethiopia

“For everything there is a season and a time for every occupation under heaven: A time for giving birth, a time for dying; a time for…

Food waste: harvesting Spain's unwanted crops to feed the hungry

Spain’s gleaning movement has grown rapidly in response to austerity, harvesting imperfect fruit and veg - that would otherwise be wasted - for food banks. Now…

Church in Ethiopia Launches Irrigation Project, Farmers to Increase Productivity

On 14 June 2016, the Catholic Church in Ethiopia launched a 3-million-Euro irrigation scheme project targeting 1 200 households. The irrigation scheme has the potential to…