About
About this project:
The Nourishing the Planet project will assess the state of agricultural innovations—from cropping methods to irrigation technology to agricultural policy—with an emphasis on sustainability, diversity, and ecosystem health, as well as productivity. The project aims to both inform global efforts to eradicate hunger and raise the profile of these efforts. The project will also consider the institutional infrastructure needed by each of the approaches analyzed, suggesting what sort of companion investments are likely to determine success—from local seed banks to processing facilities, from pro-poor value chains to marketing bureaus.
The project will culminate in the release of State of the World 2011, a comprehensive report that will focus on agriculture and will be accompanied by derivative briefing documents, summaries, videos. and podcasts. This volume will be a roadmap for foundations and international donors interested in supporting the most effective agricultural development interventions in various agroecological and socioeconomic contexts. The project’s findings will be disseminated to a wide range of influential agricultural stakeholders, including government ministries, agricultural policymakers, farmer and community networks, and the increasingly influential non-governmental environmental and development communities.
Project Staff
Brian Halweil, Senior Researcher and co-Project Director
Danielle Nierenberg, Senior Researcher and co-Project Director
Molly Theobald, Research Fellow
Related Publications
Worldwatch Report Mitigating Climate Change Through Food and Land Use
Worldwatch Report: Farming Fish for Our Future
Worldwatch Paper 172 Catch of the Day: Choosing Seafood for Healthier Oceans
Worldwatch Paper 171 Happier Meals: Rethinking the Global Meat Industry
State of the World 2007 Chapter 3: Farming the Cities
State of the World 2008 Chapter 5: Meat and Seafood: The Global Diet’s Most Costly Ingredients
State of the World 2009 Chapter 3: Farming and Land Use to Cool the Planet
