MCA Youth

SubhanAllah. As of this writing, a quarter of all the land in Pakistan, from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa down to Sindh, has been flooded due to heavy monsoons. The death toll, at about 1,500, isn’t as high as that of other natural disasters, like the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami – but the floods have affected some [...]

With many of the world’s Muslims engaged in agriculture, and climate change looming over our heads, the potential for food production to impact climate change is a very real issue that affects us all. Agriculture can play a significant role in accelerating or mitigating climate change, depending on how we grow our crops and raise [...]

It sounds like something straight out of the satirical blog “Stuff White People Like.” Organic food. Farmers’ markets. “Berry picking.” But growing food on quality farmland, in an ecologically sustainable manner, may be a vital ingredient for alleviating world hunger, particularly for small farmers in developing countries. The farmland need not be vast; in fact, [...]

In the same 1998 book by Frances Moore Lappé et. al. that I wrote about yesterday – World Hunger: Twelve Myths – the authors break down another myth that is commonly held about hunger: that having large farms (i.e., lots of land) will solve the hunger problem. We need only to look at Roman history [...]

Assalaam aleikum and Ramadan Mubarak to you all. Ramadan begins today, Wednesday the 11th of August, according to the Muslim Community Association’s website. Insh’Allah this post will be the first of more to come, one for each day of Ramadan. Since two of the most significant things we give up during the days of Ramadan [...]