This blog was originally posted to the State of the Planet blog by Alex Fischer of the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).  On the eve of a new academic year with students returning to campus to begin new courses and degree programs, there is a renewed effort to identify the need for… read more

After severe floods last October, a woman from the Woman’s Cooperative in Les Anglais, southwestern Haiti, found herself and her family with nothing to eat and no possessions to her family’s name, save one: her parcel of land she inherited upon the death of a family member. She took the title to her land to… read more