Slow Food International, a global non-profit organization that promotes small-scale and sustainable food production and the preservation of food cultures,highlighted State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet on its website today. Slow Food International General Secretary Serena Milano authored a chapter on biodiversity for State of the World 2011 and a number of Slow Food supported projects, including those in Senegal, Uganda, and Cote d’Ivoire are featured throughout book. Slow Food’s projects, along with innovations from all over sub-Saharan Africa, will be discussed next week at the State of the World 2011 Press Launch in New York City.
Attend The State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet Press Launch in New York City at 10:00am on Wednesday, January 12th at WNYC’s The Greene Space (44 Charlton Street). RSVP by emailing Amanda Stone at astone@worldwatch.org or online now.
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.
