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By Marlena White
Name: Peter Hammerstedt
Affiliation: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Bio: Peter Hammerstedt is a regular cast member of Animal Planet’s “Whale Wars,” which covers the anti-whaling efforts of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. He will also appear on “Whale Wars: Viking Shores,” premiering Friday, April 27, at 9:00 PM (ET). The series will focus on Operation ...
Apr 06
Name: Susan Varlamoff
Affiliation: Director of the Office of Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia
Bio: As Director of the Office of Environmental Sciences (OES), Varlamoff promotes the College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences’ environmental research, teaching, and extension programs and seeks funding opportunities and collaborations for faculty working on natural resource issues. She also maintains a database of environmental programs ...
Apr 02
Diet, Livestock, Meat, Nourishing the Planet, Nourishing the Planet in the News
Check out this article in Voice of America that features our new research on rising farm animal populations and the increase in factory farms, or concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).
The demand for meat, eggs, and dairy products in developing countries has increased at a staggering rate in recent decades, according to the report. Although industrialized ...
Feb 08
Biodiversity, Conservation, Seeds
By Laura Reynolds
Genetic diversity, from microorganisms to large mammals, is being lost at a rapid rate—between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than the natural rate, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. To combat this dangerous biodiversity loss, the U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is updating and expanding its genetic resource database ...
Feb 03
Africa, Agriculture, Farmers, Farmers Groups, Tanzania, Technology
By Jenna Banning
Sauti ya wakulima (“Voice of the Farmers”) is a collaborative, multimedia database that brings together the knowledge and experience of farmers in the Bagamoyo District in Tanzania. The project was started in March 2011, and is currently being sponsored by the North South Center of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and supported ...
Dec 30
Africa, Food, Food Security, Hunger, Kenya
By Emily Gilbert
Name: Luchetu Likaka, PhD
Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Centre for Ageing and Rural Development Kenya (CARD-K)
Bio: Dr. Likaka is the founder of the Centre for Ageing and Rural Development (CARD) Kenya. A firm believer in justice, he began advocating for the elderly in 2007, and established CARD-K in 2008 with little funding, but a lot passion and ...
Nov 25
Agriculture, Farmers, Farmers Groups, Poverty, Rwanda
Name: Margaret Vernon
Affiliation: One Acre Fund (OAF), General Partner, Director of Operations, Rwanda, and Co-founder
Location: Rwanda
Bio: Margaret graduated from Georgetown University‘s School of Foreign Service, where she was a Managing Editor for the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs and setter for the women’s volleyball team. She served in Burkina Faso with the Peace Corps from 2005 – 2007, working ...
Nov 18
disease, Disease Prevention, Food, Food safety, Food Security, Nutrition
By Supriya Kumar
Name: Christa Essig
Affiliation: Public Health Analyst, National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) and Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Bio: Christa works as the liaison on food system issues between CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health and Nutrition Branch. The work includes examining co-benefits of sustainable food ...
Nov 04
Africa, Agriculture, Irrigation, Soil, sub-Saharan Africa, Water
By Supriya Kumar
Name: William Dar
Affiliation: Director General of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India
Location: Andhra Pradesh, India
Bio: Dar has had a long and distinguished career as an educationist, agricultural scientist, administrator, and humanitarian in his native Philippines and abroad in the Asia Pacific region and sub-Saharan Africa. He holds the distinction of ...
Oct 21
Africa, Agriculture, Farmers, Urban Farming, Women
Diana Lee-Smith is a founder of the Mazingira Institute, an independent research and development organization based in Nairobi, Kenya. She carried out the first survey of urban agriculture in Kenya in 1985 and has over 20 years of experience in research, policy, and advocacy work on urban poverty, gender, development, and environment issues. Lee-Smith has written extensively ...
Oct 14
Africa, Agriculture, Development, Drought, Farmers, Food, Food Security, Funding, Green Revolution, Hunger, Kenya, sub-Saharan Africa
In this interview with Roger Thurow, senior fellow at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, he discusses the need for effective agricultural development for smallholder farmers in Africa as an important step in eradicating hunger in the region.
Name: Roger Thurow
Affiliation: Senior Fellow for global agriculture and food policy at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Location: Chicago, IL
Bio: Roger Thurow joined ...
Sep 30
Africa, Agriculture, Conflict, Farmers, Food, Food Security, Hunger, Land
In this interview with Cultural Anthropologist Laetitia van Haren, she discusses the situation in Burundi and the need for more attention to be placed on land access and food security in the region.
Name: Laetitia van Haren
Affiliation: International Consultant. Currently holds an advisory position with UNHCR and roving officer for Laos and Cambodia for the French Catholic Delegation ...
Sep 23
Compost, Food, Local, Sustainable
By Jadda Miller
Chef, restaurateur, and author Arthur Potts Dawson is passionate about the planet, good food, eating well and making the most of what’s fresh, local, and seasonal. Dawson has been cooking for 25 years. He’s been a chef for Jamie Oliver at Fifteen, the Soho House Group at Cecconi’s, Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray at ...
Sep 20
Children, Education, Gardening, School, Sustainable, Youth
By Christina Wright
In this interview, Dan Schnitzer, Director of Sustainability and Operations atAcademy for Global Citizenship (AGC), a Chicago Public Charter School, discusses what it means to empower all students to impact their community and the world.
Can you tell us about the history and mission of the Academy for Global Citizenship?
AGC’s Founder and Executive Director, Sarah ...
Aug 20
Africa, Ethiopia, Food, Hunger, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Niger, Nutrition
Navyn Salem, founder and director of Edesia, talks about her July field diary reflection and explains the global impact that emergency food aid programs have.
Name: Navyn Salem
Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director of Edesia
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
Bio: In 2009 Navyn Salem founded Edesia -a non-profit factory that specializes in producing Plumpy’nut- a high calorie edible ...
Aug 12
By Jadda Miller
National Geographic fellow, author and chef, Barton Seaver has dedicated his career to restoring the relationship we have with our ocean. It is his belief that the choices we are making for dinner are directly impacting the ocean and its fragile ecosystems. He promotes sustainability, wellness, and community as they relate to food.
He ...
Jul 12
Agriculture, Innovation, Innovations that Nourish the Planet, Nourishing the Planet in the News
Radio Free Asia recently interviewed Nourishing the Planet project director, Danielle Nierenberg, where she discussed the growing global population, and highlighted agricultural innovations that are working to address food security issues worldwide.
Click here to listen to the interview.
To purchase State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet please click HERE. And to watch the one ...
Jul 07
Recently Radio Australia, the international radio program of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, interviewed Nourishing the Planet director Danielle Nierenberg. The interview focused on food waste in both developing and developed countries.
In the developed world, we throw away food that’s perfectly good before we ever have a chance to eat it. In the developing world, lack ...
Jun 24
Agriculture, Development, Farmers, Income
By Supriya Kumar
This is the last part in a two-part interview with Canadian food policy analyst and writer Wayne Roberts. In this part, he talks getting involved in a local food movement and a subsistence plan, that will help small-scale rural farmers in the developing world.
How can we promote the local food movement? How can ordinary citizens ...
Jun 17
In part one of this two-part interview, Canadian food policy analyst and writer Wayne Roberts talks about global food policy and the local food movement.
Name: Wayne Roberts
Affiliation: Leading member of the City of Toronto’s Environmental Task Force, weekly columnist for Toronto’s Now Magazine and the former manager of the Toronto Food Policy Council.
Location: Toronto, Canada
Bio: ...
