Zimbabwe Critically Short of Medical Resources After Cyclone Idai; Eyes on Mexico: Indigenous Communities Facing Down Foreign Extractive Industries; Food Justice Takes Center Stage at 2019 Good Food Expo

By Worldview Staff
Soldiers and paramedics carry injured survivors from a helicopter in Chimanimani about 600 kilometres south east of Harare, Zimbabwe, Tuesday, March, 19, 2019. According to the government, Cyclone Idai has killed more than 100 people in Chipinge and Chimanimani and according to residents the figures could be higher because the hardest hit areas are still inaccesible. Some hundreds are dead, many more are missing, and some thousands at risk from the massive flooding in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe caused by Cyclone Idai.
Soldiers and paramedics carry injured survivors from a helicopter in Chimanimani about 600 kilometres south east of Harare, Zimbabwe, Tuesday, March, 19, 2019. According to the government, Cyclone Idai has killed more than 100 people in Chipinge and Chimanimani and according to residents the figures could be higher because the hardest hit areas are still inaccesible. Some hundreds are dead, many more are missing, and some thousands at risk from the massive flooding in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe caused by Cyclone Idai. Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi / AP Photo
Soldiers and paramedics carry injured survivors from a helicopter in Chimanimani about 600 kilometres south east of Harare, Zimbabwe, Tuesday, March, 19, 2019. According to the government, Cyclone Idai has killed more than 100 people in Chipinge and Chimanimani and according to residents the figures could be higher because the hardest hit areas are still inaccesible. Some hundreds are dead, many more are missing, and some thousands at risk from the massive flooding in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe caused by Cyclone Idai.
Soldiers and paramedics carry injured survivors from a helicopter in Chimanimani about 600 kilometres south east of Harare, Zimbabwe, Tuesday, March, 19, 2019. According to the government, Cyclone Idai has killed more than 100 people in Chipinge and Chimanimani and according to residents the figures could be higher because the hardest hit areas are still inaccesible. Some hundreds are dead, many more are missing, and some thousands at risk from the massive flooding in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe caused by Cyclone Idai. Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi / AP Photo

Zimbabwe Critically Short of Medical Resources After Cyclone Idai; Eyes on Mexico: Indigenous Communities Facing Down Foreign Extractive Industries; Food Justice Takes Center Stage at 2019 Good Food Expo

By Worldview Staff
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On today’s show:

  • Cyclone Idai hit parts of southern Africa last week, leaving devastation in its wake.
  • The human rights and lands of Mexico’s indigenous communities have been threatened by international mining and agricultural companies in recent years.
  • In 2004, Jim Slama, founder of food justice and sustainability NGO FamilyFarmed, created the group’s highest-profile event, the Good Food EXPO.