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Five Media Innovations That Help Feed the Planet

By Danielle Nierenberg on January 22, 2012 in Africa, Asia, East Africa, England, Europe, Featured, India, Kenya, Nairobi, Photos, Southern Africa

As modern technology is adopted in widespread regions of our planet, it can provide poor people with access to many forms of media. Innovations like the internet and satellite technology are changing the face of...

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Making 2012 A Greener Year For All

By Danielle Nierenberg on January 21, 2012 in Africa, Brazil, China, East Africa, Featured, India, Kenya, Nairobi, Pakistan, Photos, Russia, Rwanda, South America, West Africa

Many of us are thinking about the changes we want to make this year. For some, these changes will be financial; for others, physical or spiritual. But for all of us, there are important resolutions...

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Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai, You Are Sorely Missed

By Katherine Hui on October 8, 2011 in Africa, East Africa, Featured, Kenya, Nairobi, Photos

Wangari Maathai has passed on. Amongst her long list of incredible life achievements including being the first woman in eastern central Africa to earn a PhD and winning a Nobel peace prize, she was...

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An Abundance of Talent In The Midst of Poverty and Hunger

By Molly Theobald on May 13, 2011 in Africa, Kenya, Nairobi, North America, North Carolina, Photos, USA

When Rye Barcott, author of the recently released, It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace, founded the organization Carolina for Kibera (CFK) he was still an undergraduate at the University of North...

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Teaching Sustainability Through Comics

By Danielle Nierenberg on May 3, 2011 in Africa, Asia, East Africa, Featured, Kenya, Nairobi, Photos

Young Kenyans are excited about the new comic book series “ShujaazFM” which means ‘heroes’ in Sheng, a combination of Swahili and English. Through a free monthly insert in the Saturday Nation newspaper, a daily syndicated FM...

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Baboons, Flamingos, Buffalo & Zebra in Kenya

By Jeff Lee on November 13, 2010 in Africa, East Africa, Featured, Kenya, Nairobi, Photos

When we arrived in Nairobi, we ventured into a local restaurant (with butcher shop attached), picked out a little over a kilo of goat’s meat hanging in the window and asked for it to be...

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Research That’s Making Results

By Danielle Nierenberg on August 10, 2010 in Africa, East Africa, Kenya, Nairobi, Photos

Last week we reported on the 2010 winners of the African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) fellowships. Nairobi’s Business Daily recently highlighted the research efforts of a past AWARD fellow, Mary Anyango Oyunga.Egerton...

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Fighting Global Malnutrition Locally

By Bernard Pollack on July 7, 2010 in Africa, Caribbean, Congo, East Africa, Ghana, Haiti, Kenya, Nairobi, Photos, West Africa

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet.Every year, 5 million children worldwide die from malnutrition-related causes, including immune-system deficiency, increased risk of infection, decreased bone density, and starvation. But a variety of local efforts are...

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Making 2012 A Greener Year For All

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