Each day we are posting three of your responses to the question: Where Would You Like to See More Agricultural Funding Directed?
1. Christine McCulloch, School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom says:
“We need more research on means of food preservation and storage to reduce food loss during marketing and within households.”
2. Hans R Herren, Millennium Institute, USA says:
“More investments are needed in sustainable agricultural research to make up for the shortcomings of the past 50 years of research which focused on high input agriculture. Its time to invest in agroecology and organic farming practices, make sure that the innovations reach the farmers and these are supported in integrating them with their knowledge. The farmers must also have a feedback mechanism to the scientists.”
3. Amadou Niang says:
“I suggest funding be directed to small scale farmers linking to issues like food security, nutrition and income.”
See PART I to hear from Dave Andrews (USA), Dave Johnstone (Cameroon), and Pierre Castagnoli (Italy).
See Part II to hear from Paul Sinandja (Togo), Dov Pasternak (Niger), and Pascal Pulvery (France)
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.
