Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. Fridah Mugo and her 13 siblings grew up in a farming family in rural Kenya, where the majority of young girls are not expected to finish primary school. But, in 1999, with a scholarship provided by Winrock International‘s African Women Leaders in Agriculture and the Environment program […]
Re-Directing Ag Funding to Small-Scale Farmers for Improved Food Security
Cross posted from BorderJumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. Check out Food First‘s most recent edition of Alternatives to the Green Revolution in Africa newsletter (AAAGRrrr!). In a piece written by Richard Jonasse and Tanya Kerssen, Nourishing the Planet Advisory Group member, Professor Olivier De Schutter, is quoted about the threat of increasing corporate consolidation […]
Feeding Communities by Focusing on Women
Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. In Washington DC last week at the House Hunger Caucus briefing, panelist, Cheryl Morden, Director of the North American Liaison Office of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), concluded that, in the global agriculture funding community’s struggle to alleviate hunger and poverty, there is a "big […]
1,000 Words About Tanzania
Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Kigoma, Tanzania We arrived in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania excited to catch a flight to Kigoma, a region in the northwestern part of the country to visit a Jane Goodall Institute Tanzania project working with small farmers […]
1,000 Words About Ethiopia
Cross posted from BorderJumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. We started this trip in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a place most Americans associate with war and hunger because of the famines of the mid 1980s and 1990s. Even today, more than 6 million people in Ethiopia are at risk for starvation so we think we had […]
A Few Words About Malawi
Danielle Nierenberg is blogging everyday from across Africa for the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet blog. She is also writing with her partner Bernard Pollack at her personal blog: BorderJumpers. In Malawi, we visited the Lilongwe Wildlife Centre, a project supported by companies like the Body Shop, providing sanctuary space for rescued, confiscated, orphaned […]
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