Last week the National Peace Corps Association and the World Policy Journal announced the winners of their Africa Rural Connect (ARC) Essay Contest. The goal of the contest was to gain insight from people around the world about how to fight hunger in rural Africa. Ali Djeffarou (below) won first place. To read the top six winning essays, keep an eye out for the World Policy Institute’s Fall 2010 issue of World Policy Journal, a leading foreign policy publication in the United States.
photo credit: Bernard Pollack
ARC, a program of the National Peace Corps Association, is an online collaboration network that serves as a platform to encourage individuals to communicate and respond to the needs of rural farmers. Check out their site to find out more about innovative ideas they are collecting, add your own idea, and vote to help your favorite projects receive funding!
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.
