At a recent award ceremony in Sweden, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and the Institute for Sustainable Development ’s (ISD) Tigray Project were awarded the 2011 Gothenburg Award for Sustainable Development.
The USD $1 million award prize is being shared by Annan for his work with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, and the Tigray Project for their sustainable agricultural work that has improved the soil and water quality and farmers’ livelihoods in Ethiopia.
In her acceptance speech, Director of ISD, Sue Edwards said, “We have worked with them {farmers} since 1996 to restore and strengthen local community self governance so as to rehabilitate ecosystems and raise the productivity of the land. These farmers are now enjoying a food supply that is sustaining them from one cropping season to the next.”
Click here to learn more about the award.
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.
