Cooking with (bio)gas
In Paris, France, over 80 restaurants signed up to take part in a Spring 2014 pilot project to collect their food waste, which was then used to generate biogas and produce electricity, heat, and...
View ArticleLook Back, Pay It Forward
By Debra Kerby, President & CEO2014 has been another extraordinary year in the life of CFTC thanks to you–our generous, compassionate family of supporters. Thank you for all you’ve done in 2014 to...
View ArticleHope flows in Gelan Idero
This month, we bring you an interview with Dema Kecha, age 67, a mother and grandmother who lives in a small village in a rural area outside of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where our local partner Emmanuel...
View ArticleEmpower women, stop hunger
“Food was the main challenge. We survived on love. How else could we survive?” Marefya Tirfu, age 35, is a mother of two living in Ethiopia. Marefya married her husband as a teenager, and dropped out...
View ArticleSweet success in Ethiopia
Beekeeping brings new livelihoods to Ethiopia’s rural poor Members of the EDA-supported Yelen Queen Bee Multiplication Centre meet to gain and share technical support and build their businesses....
View ArticleWorld Food Day 2015
Drought Again Threatens East Africa It’s been 30 years since the 1984-85 Ethiopian famine that shocked the world and killed an estimated one million people and less than five since the 2011-2012 Horn...
View ArticleBarely surviving to thriving
“I was one of the poorest of poor in my community and I was struggling to survive with my two children,” Woinshet Tefera, a 34-year-old widow from a small village outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia told us....
View ArticleHelping women farm better
Keeping children safe, providing for their needs, and giving them the opportunities they deserve to flourish are the hopes of parents all over the world. But mothers, in particular, face many barriers...
View ArticleFarming: changing the pulse
Ahmed joined MILEAR in 2014 and learned how to grow and sell mung bean, a resilient pulse crop. Ahmed lives in Shekla village in the Eastern Amhara Region of Ethiopia. He has four children – two sons...
View ArticleA well full of opportunities
“I used to work as a daily labourer on other people’s farms for a small wage,” Hussien said, reflecting on the challenges he and his wife faced in feeding their children. When their fields could not...
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