NGO Practical Action has created this photo slideshow to portray how families in developing countries are coping with climate change.
Practical Action is a development non-profit that uses simple technology to help people gain access to basic services like clean water, and sanitation and to improve food production and incomes.
To read more about projects supported by their innovative ideas that are improving farmer livelihoods and alleviating hunger see: Getting to the Market, Beating the Heat to Reduce Post-Harvest Waste, and Reducing the Things They Carry.
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.
