About

About Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet project:

The Nourishing the Planet (www.NourishingthePlanet.org) project assesses 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 also considers 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 first phase of the project culminated in the release of State of the World 2011, a comprehensive report that focuses on agriculture and is accompanied by derivative briefing documents. This volume is a roadmap for foundations and international donors interested in supporting the most effective agricultural development interventions in various agroecological and socioeconomic contexts. As the project continues its research, the initial findings are being disseminated to a wide range of influential agricultural stakeholders globally, including government ministries, agricultural policymakers, farmer and community networks, and the increasingly influential non-governmental environmental and development communities.

Read the Nourishing the Planet Project Summary (also available in several translations.)

State of the World 2011 Policy Briefs by Chapter
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Project Staff
Brian Halweil, Senior Researcher
Danielle Nierenberg, Senior Researcher and Project Director
Supriya Kumar, Research Fellow
Marissa Dwyer, Research Intern
Kevin Robbins, Research Intern
Laura Reynolds, Research Intern
Ronica Lu, Research Intern
Arielle Golden, Research Intern
Alison Blackmore, Research Intern
Holly Tassi, Research Intern
Stephanie Buglione, Research Intern
Eleanor Fausold, Research Intern
Leah Baines, Research Intern