Using Digital Technology to Empower and Connect Young Farmers

By: Wednesday June 23, 2010 7:13 am

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.

At the Rural Development Foundation’s (RDF) primary school in Kalleda, a small village in the Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh, India, students carry gardening tools, along with their notebooks and pencils.

Giving Farm Workers a Voice

By: Monday April 26, 2010 7:31 am

Danielle Nierenberg meets with Gertrude Hambira, General Secretary of General Agriculture and Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe (GAPWUZ). Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.

Protecting Wildlife While Improving Food Security, Health, and Livelihoods

By: Tuesday April 6, 2010 8:36 am

This is the first in a two-part series about Nourishing the Planet co-director Danielle Nierenberg’s visit with COMACO in Zambia. Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.

Using the Market to Create Resilient Agriculture Practices

By: Monday March 8, 2010 8:59 am

Read how Care International’s “business approach” is assisting farmers in Zambia.

U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Charles Ray, on Agricultural Development in Zimbabwe

By: Tuesday February 23, 2010 7:16 am

This is the first in a series of blogs where we’ll be asking policy makers, politicians, non-profit and organizational leaders, journalists, celebrities, chefs, musicians, and farmers to share their thoughts—and hopes—for agricultural development in Africa. Cross posted from Nourishing the Planet.

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