The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, which started today and runs through Dec. 18, is very relevant to the Bread for the World Institute's 2010 Hunger Report, A Just and Sustainable Recovery.  The hunger report argues that reducing...

Viterbo, Italy – Marush Narankhuu had to divide her herd of 600 cattle, giving half to two of her sons. She used to have more but nearly a hundred died as a ten-year drought continues to hit the steppes of Mongolia where her cattle grazes....

Viterbo, Italy – When he built his first house in 1975, Jalaluddin Saha used bricks. In 1982, when the sea claimed his house and that of 100 families, he used bricks but built the new house farther from the shore. In 2005 he – and 60 other...

Viterbo, Italy -- Christmas at the Kericho district of western Kenya used to be marked by heavy rains. “Today, Christmas is usually dry,” said 53-year-old farmer Nelly Damaris Chepkoskei. “The dry season is hotter to the extent that now all...

Viterbo, Italy – “I am peasant farmer,” says Mbiwo Constantine Kusebahasa, as he introduced himself to me. He had traveled from his farm at the foot of the Rwenzori Mountains in Kasese, western Uganda. It is the first time that this 71 year old...