Each day we are posting three of your responses to the question: Where Would You Like to See More Agricultural Funding Directed?
(Photo credit: Bernard Pollack)
1. Dov Pasternak, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Niger says:
“There is a need for heavy investment on capacity building of farmers and extension workers and on profit generating farming and of farm activities.”
2. Paul Sinandja, Peace Corps, Togo says:
“For me, I think it will be helpful to direct more agriculture funding to the small farmers food production and small transformation factories (trainings for farmers, supporting family production, and putting a focus on school gardens will help assure food security for all.)”
3. Pascal Pulvery, National Association of Livestock & Artificial Insemination Cooperatives (UNCEIA), France says:
“I think that the majority of funds should be used to develop the production of food for local utilization instead of developing the agricultural production for exportation.”
Click here to view PART I which contains responses from Dave Andrews (USA), Dave Johnstone (Cameroon), and Pierre Castagnoli (Italy).
What is your answer? Email me at dnierenberg@worldwatch.org or tweet your response to @WorldWatchAg.
Danielle Nierenberg, an expert on livestock and sustainability, currently serves as Project Director of State of World 2011 for the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington, DC-based environmental think tank. Her knowledge of factory farming and its global spread and sustainable agriculture has been cited widely in the New York Times Magazine, the International Herald Tribune, the Washington Post, and
other publications.
Danielle worked for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic. She is currently traveling across Africa looking at innovations that are working to alleviate hunger and poverty and blogging everyday at Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. She has a regular column with the Mail & Guardian, the Kansas City Star, and the Huffington Post and her writing was been featured in newspapers across Africa including the Cape Town Argus, the Zambia Daily Mail, Coast Week (Kenya), and other African publications. She holds an M.S. in agriculture, food, and environment from Tufts University and a B.A. in environmental policy from Monmouth College.
