Biofuel policy is feeding cars but starving people
by Éamonn Meehan, Executive Director If a policy was enacted that not only failed to achieve its intended result...
Read ArticleBiofuel policy is feeding cars but starving people
by Éamonn Meehan, Executive Director If a policy was enacted that not only failed to achieve its intended result...
Read ArticleEducating for sustainable development
by Claire O’Carroll, Development Education Officer Trócaire’s Development Education team is taking part in a...
Read Articleby Dr Lorna Gold, Head of Policy and Advocacy with Trócaire The tragedy of super-Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the P...
Read ArticleClimate change hitting Zimbabwe’s farmers hard
By Nelly Maonde, Zimbabwe Livelihoods & Humanitarian Programme Officer. Every year, life gets more difficult ...
Read ArticleFood Not Fuel – make your voice heard ahead of critical MEP vote
People are going hungry because crops are being used to fill our petrol tanks instead of feeding families. Biofuel...
Read ArticleSalvadorans demand their right to water
By Michael Solis, Trócaire’s Institutional Funding Officer in El Salvador Last week, an estimated 10,00...
Read ArticleEmpowering Bolivians to tackle climate change
By Tom Crowley, Programme Leader: Sustainable Livelihoods and Environmental Justice Last wee...
Read ArticleHow water wells defeat hunger in Ethiopia
Blue skies may be top of an Irish person’s wish list for the summer, but in Ethiopia months of dry heat make it diffic...
Read ArticleConfronting hunger, nutrition and climate justice – three challenges
By Ciara Kirrane at Trócaire and Thomas Tanner and Lars Otto Naess at The Institute of Development Studies (IDS),15 Apr...
Read ArticleLukewarm efforts to tackle climate change
By Dr Lorna Gold, Head of Policy & Advocacy, 4 March 2013 We have a seven-year window to tackle the climate crisis i...
Read ArticleTrócaire joins Irish and UK development agencies in brand new, high-profile campaign. Launched today, in Dublin,...
Read ArticleFarmers forced to find new way to survive in El Salvador
by Oliver Moore, Trócaire supporter For the first week of this month, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to vis...
Read ArticleDying Mangroves and Fading Livelihoods in El Salvador
by James Hendicott, Trócaire Supporter Located on the Pacific Coast of El Salvador, La Tirana is heavily isolated; an h...
Read ArticleA year after the drought: building a better future for east Africa
I will never forget the shocking scenes I witnessed in east Africa last summer. Mothers, fathers and children left facin...
Read ArticleThe gradual and devastating impact of climate change
It seems fitting that world leaders gather in Rio de Janeiro this week to discuss the future of our planet, including th...
Read ArticleLet’s get real about climate change.
The equivalent of the combined populations of Cork, Limerick and Galway cities die every year as a result of factors rel...
Read ArticleWhat a difference the rain can make
Caption: Trócaire has used Irish donations to fund vital agriculture programmes in regions such as Ishiara in Kenya. Ph...
Read ArticleMary Robinson meets with climate justice activists
150 people blowing Vuvuzelas outside Leinster House, Dublin. 200 people arrive in Durban after a 4,000 mile caravan trip...
Read ArticleTwo people, two thousand miles, one problem
Andrew Lodio has nowhere to go. Drought has ravaged his land, bringing dry desert all around him. A sea of dust stretche...
Read ArticleProof of life: Solving east Africa’s food crisis
In a sea of famine and hunger, a small patch of land in the village of Nakwalekwi, northern Kenya, acts as a beacon of h...
Read ArticleA year after the floods, the deep scars remain
I had never met a slave before I went to Pakistan. It’s a strange feeling to talk with someone who is owned by another...
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