Posts Categorized: Farming

Peasant movement filled with farmers who fight for rights

By Cindy Corell | Joining Hands Land, Food and Agribusiness Concerns “Whole cultures of farming, of weaving and knitting, of cooking, preserving and fermenting, of storytelling and music-making, have grown out of the peasant family’s struggle to keep body and mind alive in hard times. What the skeleton is to anatomy, the peasant is to… Read more »

For the past decade, Presbyterian Hunger Program has partnered with a Gaza organization working on food security

By Eileen Schuhmann | Presbyterian Hunger Program The Presbyterian Hunger Program has been supporting its partner Improvement and Development for Communities Center (IDCO) in Gaza since 2014 in IDCO’s efforts to improve the food security situation for Gazans. Back in 2014, food insecurity levels in the Gaza Strip had already exceeded 57%, with more than 36% of Gazans being severely food… Read more »

Building Women’s Economic Resilience through Farming in South Sudan

The Presbyterian Hunger Program’s partner Hope Restoration South Sudan has made this wonderful video about the work that PHP and the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance have supported there. The work of the Presbyterian Hunger Program is possible thanks to your gifts to One Great Hour of Sharing.