The first half of 2012 saw the TaiwanICDF release three short films – Care, Sustainability and Development – designed to raise public awareness of water resources, the environment, sustainable development, cooperation and development, and other important global development issues.

Today (August 30) sees the release of Chinese and English versions of the organization’s fourth short film, Self-reliance, which covers the global food crises that have hit developing countries the hardest. In the face of these difficulties, the issue is how people in such countries can be helped to help themselves — how to strengthen self-reliance, weather the storm and regain hope.

In Haiti, for example, roughly half of the population lives on less than US$1 per day, making the country one of the poorest in the Western Hemisphere. In 2008, shortages of rice and other grains caused prices to rise significantly, triggering civil unrest and making it even more difficult for citizens to make a living. Self-reliance shows how the TaiwanICDF’s Torbeck Rice Production and Marketing Project responded to food riots by assisting local farmers to learn about new technologies, and thereby helped them to realize their dream of achieving self-sufficiency on their own land. Viewers are welcome to watch the film at the organization’s official site, as well as at its YouTube and Facebook pages.

Through its technical cooperation model, the TaiwanICDF has engaged in a number of projects designed to increase grain production, reducing the impact of food crises within its partner countries. Providing its partners with practical solutions for achieving self-sustaining growth, the organization implements its work through legal, project-orientated forms of assistance, transferring projects and associated development concepts, assisting partners as they engage in project operations, and accompanying these partners in a gradual process that incorporates the promotion of further, related projects, striving toward its vision to “become the best partner for sustainable development by 2022.”

• Related Projects and Operations:

Torbeck Rice Production and Marketing Project in Haiti
http://www.icdf.org.tw/ct.asp?xItem=4382&ctNode=30057&mp=2

Aquaculture Project in Belize
http://www.icdf.org.tw/ct.asp?xItem=6469&ctNode=30063&mp=2

Further information on TaiwanICDF projects is also available at http://www.icdf.org.tw/ct.asp?xItem=4595&CtNode=29822&mp=2

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• Update: 2018/03/01
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