Each week the Nourishing the Planet team picks out some of our favorite photos from the environmentally sustainable agriculture projects we’re visiting in sub-Saharan Africa.
photo credit: Bernard Pollack
This week’s photo features an image of permaculture, a holistic agriculture system that mimics relationships found in nature.
It was taken during our visit to Stacia and Kristof Nordin’s house in Malawi, which is used as an educational outdoor classroom to help farmers and their neighbors learn about the importance of permaculture and growing indigenous vegetables for the health of people and the ecosystem of Malawi.
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.
