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Saturday, May 29, 2010
John Jeavons and Jake Blehm on Building a Truly Sustainable Agriculture In this regular series we profile advisors of the Nourishing the Planet project. This week, we feature John Jeavons, Executive Director of Ecology Action and Jake Blehm, Assistant Executive Director at Ecology Action in Willits, California. Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack.
Saturday, May 29, 2010John Jeavons and Jake Blehm on Building a Truly Sustainable Agriculture In this regular series we profile advisors of the Nourishing the Planet project. This week, we feature John Jeavons, Executive Director of Ecology Action and Jake Blehm, Assistant Executive Director at Ecology Action in Willits, California. Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack.
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
"Greening" Fisheries Could Calm Troubled Waters Fishing is a critical means of providing food, livelihood, trade, and economic growth in many developing countries-as well as the United States.
Thursday, May 27, 2010"Greening" Fisheries Could Calm Troubled Waters Fishing is a critical means of providing food, livelihood, trade, and economic growth in many developing countries-as well as the United States.
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Improving Farmer Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation Innovative ways to protect agriculture and the surrounding wildlife from Nourishing the Planet.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010Improving Farmer Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation Innovative ways to protect agriculture and the surrounding wildlife from Nourishing the Planet.
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Friday, May 21, 2010
In the Fight Against the Spread of HIV/AIDS, There is no Silver Bullet In the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS, there is no silver bullet. And as we travel throughout sub-Saharan Africa we are seeing dozens of innovative ways that organizations, governments, and individuals are working to fight the disease.
Friday, May 21, 2010In the Fight Against the Spread of HIV/AIDS, There is no Silver Bullet In the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS, there is no silver bullet. And as we travel throughout sub-Saharan Africa we are seeing dozens of innovative ways that organizations, governments, and individuals are working to fight the disease.
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Sunday, May 16, 2010
A Conversation with Norman Uphoff, Advisor to Nourishing the Planet In this regular series we profile advisors of the Nourishing the Planet project. This week, we feature Norman Uphoff, professor of Government and International Agriculture at Cornell University.
Sunday, May 16, 2010A Conversation with Norman Uphoff, Advisor to Nourishing the Planet In this regular series we profile advisors of the Nourishing the Planet project. This week, we feature Norman Uphoff, professor of Government and International Agriculture at Cornell University.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Re-Directing Ag Funding to Small-Scale Farmers for Improved Food Security 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 in the food system and how it puts small farmers at risk.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010Re-Directing Ag Funding to Small-Scale Farmers for Improved Food Security 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 in the food system and how it puts small farmers at risk.
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Friday, May 7, 2010
1,000 Words About Tanzania 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 to promote sustainable agriculture.
Friday, May 7, 20101,000 Words About Tanzania 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 to promote sustainable agriculture.
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Thursday, May 6, 2010
Feeding Communities by Focusing on Women Although women farmers produce more than half of the food grown in the world-and roughly 1.6 billion women depend on agriculture for their livelihoods-they are often not able to benefit from general agriculture funding because of the institutional and cultural barriers they face-including lack of access to land, lack of access to credit, and lack of access to education.
Thursday, May 6, 2010Feeding Communities by Focusing on Women Although women farmers produce more than half of the food grown in the world-and roughly 1.6 billion women depend on agriculture for their livelihoods-they are often not able to benefit from general agriculture funding because of the institutional and cultural barriers they face-including lack of access to land, lack of access to credit, and lack of access to education.
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
1,000 Words About Ethiopia 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 mentally prepared myself for seeing very desperate people. Instead, though, we found farmers and NGO workers full of hope for agriculture in their country.
Wednesday, May 5, 20101,000 Words About Ethiopia 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 mentally prepared myself for seeing very desperate people. Instead, though, we found farmers and NGO workers full of hope for agriculture in their country.
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Friday, April 30, 2010
Turning the School Yard into a Classroom In Rwanda, more than 85 percent of the population's livelihood depends on small-scale agriculture. And the majority of primary school students-roughly 60 percent- will return to rural areas to make their living in ways, instead of going on to secondary or vocational schooling or university.
Friday, April 30, 2010Turning the School Yard into a Classroom In Rwanda, more than 85 percent of the population's livelihood depends on small-scale agriculture. And the majority of primary school students-roughly 60 percent- will return to rural areas to make their living in ways, instead of going on to secondary or vocational schooling or university.
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
FANRPAN: Working to connect farmers, researchers, and policy makers in Africa The Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) lives up to its name by linking farmers, businesses, academia, researchers, donors, and national and regional governments. By connecting rural farmers directly to the private sector, to policy-makers, and to the agricultural research community, they're trying to build a food secure Africa.
Thursday, April 29, 2010FANRPAN: Working to connect farmers, researchers, and policy makers in Africa The Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) lives up to its name by linking farmers, businesses, academia, researchers, donors, and national and regional governments. By connecting rural farmers directly to the private sector, to policy-makers, and to the agricultural research community, they're trying to build a food secure Africa.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Zambia Leads Way in Empowering Farmers with Markets Check out Danielle Nierenberg's Op-Ed, based on research for the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet project, featured on the front page of the Zambia Daily Mail. Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010Zambia Leads Way in Empowering Farmers with Markets Check out Danielle Nierenberg's Op-Ed, based on research for the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet project, featured on the front page of the Zambia Daily Mail. Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Giving Farm Workers a Voice Gertrude Hambira doesn't look like someone who gets arrested regularly. Nor do the other women and men in suits who work with her at the General Agricultural and Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe (GAPWUZ), formed in the mid-1980s to protect farm laborers. But arrest, harassment and even torture have been regular occupational hazards for Gertrude-the General Secretary of GAPWUZ-and her staff for many years.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010Giving Farm Workers a Voice Gertrude Hambira doesn't look like someone who gets arrested regularly. Nor do the other women and men in suits who work with her at the General Agricultural and Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe (GAPWUZ), formed in the mid-1980s to protect farm laborers. But arrest, harassment and even torture have been regular occupational hazards for Gertrude-the General Secretary of GAPWUZ-and her staff for many years.
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Friday, April 23, 2010
"Re-Greening" the Sahel Through Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration For centuries, farmers in the Sahel-a band of land that crosses Africa at the southern fringe of the Sahara Desert-used rotational tree farming to provide year-round harvests and a consistent source of food, fuel, and fertilizer. But severe droughts and rapid population growth in the 1970s and 80s significantly degraded the Sahel's farmland, leading to the loss of many indigenous tree species and leaving the soil barren.
Friday, April 23, 2010"Re-Greening" the Sahel Through Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration For centuries, farmers in the Sahel-a band of land that crosses Africa at the southern fringe of the Sahara Desert-used rotational tree farming to provide year-round harvests and a consistent source of food, fuel, and fertilizer. But severe droughts and rapid population growth in the 1970s and 80s significantly degraded the Sahel's farmland, leading to the loss of many indigenous tree species and leaving the soil barren.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Reducing Food Waste in the Event of An Erupting Volcano and Other Farming Hazards As Iceland's erupting volcano strands thousands of air travelers across Europe and worldwide, a less publicized but arguably more costly catastrophe is mounting 15,000 miles away: piles of gourmet produce and cut flowers, some of Kenya's chief exports, are rotting in limbo.
Thursday, April 22, 2010Reducing Food Waste in the Event of An Erupting Volcano and Other Farming Hazards As Iceland's erupting volcano strands thousands of air travelers across Europe and worldwide, a less publicized but arguably more costly catastrophe is mounting 15,000 miles away: piles of gourmet produce and cut flowers, some of Kenya's chief exports, are rotting in limbo.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Hundreds of Promising Little Projects Bring Hope to Africa Originally featured in the Montreal Gazette. Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010Hundreds of Promising Little Projects Bring Hope to Africa Originally featured in the Montreal Gazette. Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Livestock Keepers' Rights: Conserving Endangered Animal Genetic Resources in Kenya Co-written with Dr. Jacob Wanyama and originally featured in the Mail & Guardian. Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010Livestock Keepers' Rights: Conserving Endangered Animal Genetic Resources in Kenya Co-written with Dr. Jacob Wanyama and originally featured in the Mail & Guardian. Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet.
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Monday, April 12, 2010
A Conversation About Natural Resource Management with Louise Buck In this regular series, we profile advisors to the Nourishing the Planet project. This week, we feature Louise Buck, Senior Extension Associate at Cornell University. Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet.
Monday, April 12, 2010A Conversation About Natural Resource Management with Louise Buck In this regular series, we profile advisors to the Nourishing the Planet project. This week, we feature Louise Buck, Senior Extension Associate at Cornell University. Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet.
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Sunday, April 11, 2010
Innovation of the Week: School Feeding Programs Improve Livelihoods, Diets, and Local Economies In many parts sub-Saharan Africa, 60 percent of children come to school in the morning without breakfast, if they attend school at all. Many suffer from health and developmental problems, including stunted growth. Exhausted from hunger and poor nutrition, they often have trouble paying attention and learning during class.
Sunday, April 11, 2010Innovation of the Week: School Feeding Programs Improve Livelihoods, Diets, and Local Economies In many parts sub-Saharan Africa, 60 percent of children come to school in the morning without breakfast, if they attend school at all. Many suffer from health and developmental problems, including stunted growth. Exhausted from hunger and poor nutrition, they often have trouble paying attention and learning during class.
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Getting Water to Crops Access to water is a luxury that many rural households, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, do not have. Farmers must often travel long distances to collect water from streams or public wells, making it impossible to irrigate crops or have enough water for cooking and bathing.
Sunday, March 21, 2010Getting Water to Crops Access to water is a luxury that many rural households, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, do not have. Farmers must often travel long distances to collect water from streams or public wells, making it impossible to irrigate crops or have enough water for cooking and bathing.
