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1. Tilahun Amede, CGIAR Challenge Programme on Water & Food (CPWF), Ethiopia says:
“I would like to see more agriculture funding allocated to capacity building of small-scale farmers to innovate and respond to risks; for instance in post-harvest handling, branding their produces, forecasting market opportunities etc.”
2. Shree kumar Maharjan, Nepal says:
“I think hard cash money should be invested to reduce food insecurity and hunger focusing on developing countries. At the same time, we should also try to have little or no environmental impacts, as climate change is a major concern for most of the developing countries. Poor and vulnerable countries and people are mostly at risk from climate change impacts rather than developed and rich ones. So money should be invested to build the adaptive capacity of the rural poor by diversifying their livelihood options to reduce food insecurity and hunger in the world.”
3. Ashwani Vasishth, Ramapo College, USA says:
“It seems to me that more–way more–funding needs to go toward a) training programs that advance appropriate technology in agriculture (read, alternatives to resource-, chemical-, and fertilizer-intensive conventional practices), and b) mechanisms that make well-designed and implemented micro-credit lending available to small farmers everywhere.”
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).
See Part III to hear from Christine McCulloch (UK), Hans R Herren (VA), and Amadou Niang (Mali).
See Part IV to hear from Michel Koos (Netherlands), Don Seville (USA), and Ron Gretlarson.
See Part V to hear from Shahul Salim, Roger Leakey (Kenya), and Monty P Jones (Ghana).
See Part VI to hear from Calestous Juma (USA), Ray Anderson (USA), and Rob Munro (Zambia).
See Part VII to hear from Tom Philpott (USA), Grace Mwaura, and Thangavelu Vasantha Kumaran.
See Part VII to hear from Peter Mietzner (Namibia), Madyo Couto (Mozambique), and Norman Thomas Uphoff (USA)
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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.
