April 19, 2020
Agroecology to feed The world with healthy food
HEMANTHA WITHANAGE Fernando Funes is a Cuban academic who left his teaching job to become a farmer. His two Ha land produce Lettuce and other salad plant to meet the demand in Cuba and even export to France and Belgium. His bee hives produce honey for the local and international market. Few kilometers away former
April 18, 2020
How is Colombo Port City of China impacting fishing communities in Sri Lanka?
By Hemantha Withanage, Centre for Environmental Justice, Sri Lanka Manoja is a 50-year-old woman with one son and two daughters and lives in Pitipana village. Her husband is a fisherman and she sells the fish he catches at a road-side market. Fishing is their only source of income and her husband earned Rs1500 (around US$8)