Nourishing the Planet has had its first Canadian op-ed published in the Vancouver Sun! Co-authored by Slow Food International’s director of international development and Nourishing the Planet Advisory Group member Shayna Bailey and NtP’s co-project director Danielle Nierenberg, the article details how the value and popularity of eating local food is spreading to a global audience.
The op-ed describes the Developing Innovations in School Cultivation (DISC) project in Uganda and Mangeons Local in Senegal and their efforts to help school children learn about local agriculture and the culinary traditions of their countries. With support from organizations like Slow Food International, they are engaging the next generation of farmers.
For more about Nourishing the Planet’s work with Slow Food International and projects they support see: Reigniting an Interest in Local food, Meet the Nourishing the Planet Advisory Group: Shayna Bailey, How to Keep Kids ”Down on the Farm”, and Innovation of the Week: Agriculture Education in School.
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.
