As the poorest state in the Western hemisphere, Haiti has been suffering from a lack of basic reosurces for many years.
In the town of Croix Des Bouquets, just outsdie the capital, 70 per cent of teh population is unemployed.
But a group of hundreds of artists have created a community of craftsmen – turning oil steel drums into art – in an effort to change that fact.
Teresa Bo reports.
Hatii’s agricultural sector is considered to be one of the most inefficient in the world. For decades, the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) has been working in the country, trying to improve food production.
But despite its best efforts, hundreds of thousands of Haitians contiune to rely on food handouts.
As Teresa Bo reports from Gonaives in Haiti, last year’s devastating hurricane season has only made matters there worse.
Haiti is one of the the poorest countries in the world. One out of eight children there die before they reach the age of five.
Especially vulnerable are disabled children who are abandoned by their parents and left to fend for themselves, but the system
has few resources to deal with those in need. Teresa Bo reports from Port-au-Prince.
People in Haiti are worried that, in the middle of the current hurricane season, history may repeat itself.
Hundreds of people died in mudslides and floods after last years powerful storms.
Haiti’s story is just one example of the devastating effects of global wraming, particularly in impoverished nations.
Teresa Bo reoprts.
The rising cost of food is one reason that Haitians are going hungry. The other is a lack of land to grow crops.
Deforestation has destroyed much of the farming ladn once used by Haiti’s rural communities.
Al Jazeera’s Mike Kirsch looks at an environmental problem that’s further fuelling Haiti’s food crisis.