A Niger drought means there is not enough food to feed the country; United Nations reports estimate 7.9 million inhabitants are facing food shortages there.
More than 7 million people in Niger do not have enough food to survive until the fall harvest. But nonprofits are working with farmers to implement sustainable farming practices. Will they succeed?
Published October 9, 2012
Student Fellow Ruth Moon placed first for Magazine News Religion Report of the Year, receiving the 2012 award from the Religion Newswriters Association. The association's annual contests showcase religion reporting excellence in the news media.
Moon won the award for her reporting published in Christianity Today, which was part of her Pulitzer Center project "Niger: Feeding the Forgotten". Moon was the 2010-2011 student fellow from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, a founding member of the Pulitzer Center's Campus Consortium. Her award-winning report came in ahead in the contest of Julia Duin (2nd place: The Washington Post Magazine) and Nadine Epstein (3rd place: Moment magazine).
Moon reported from Niger, visiting Niamey and other sites in the country, interviewing aid workers and local residents to shed light on the food crisis, religion and the future of the country.
A full listing of the 2012 awards by the Religion Newswriters Association is available.
Project
Recently
Tackling a food crisis: With the help of NGOs, farmers in Niger are looking for long-term solutions to recurring crop failures and shortages.
Will Christianity be a solution to the hardships that plague Niger?
Intern
Uliana Bazar is a Ukrainian documentary photographer and multimedia producer based in Washington, D.C. Over the past few years she has spent time photographing in the Caribbean and Italy, focusing...