Nourishing the Planet
Danielle Nierenberg, a Senior Researcher at the Worldwide Institute contacted me to share the all of the sustainable agricultural efforts that her organization is working on. She has been traveling through sub-Saharan Africa to do important research on environmentally sustainable agriculture innovations in the region. She has and will been sharing all of her experiences and research on the blog Nourishing the Planet over the next two years.
After reading all of the experiences from her and her colleagues on the blog, I can say that it is a great pleasure to share this wonderful blog with all of you. There are so many articles about various sustainable and practical innovations, interviews with non-profit and farmers groups and advisers on the Nourishing the Planet board as well as so much more.
One article I found particularly interesting was interview with Danielle about her experiences on the trip so far.
The trip is surprising in a lot of different ways. While we’ve seen extreme poverty and environmental degradation during our trip, we’ve also been impressed by the level of knowledge about things like hunger, climate change, HIV/AIDS and other issues from the farmers we meet. The people in many of these countries know better than anyone how to solve the problems their facing, they just need attention–and support–from the international community. In Africa, maybe more than anywhere else we’ve traveled, a little funding can go a long way (if used the right way).
This is really a promising quote to hear especially since so many people worldwide, especially us in America, think that not much is going well in Africa. You can read the full interview on Nourishing the Planet by Stephanie Rodgers from Eco-Chick.
I wish all success to the project and Danielle on her great journey through southern and western Africa. I look forward to the release of the State of the World 2011 that will be the result of this project. If you want to show your support, be sure to check out Nourishing the Planet to read about all the great research they are doing as well as following them on Facebook or Twitter.
Comments
well this is just the way people should react to the environment and start nourishing it so that we get some greener world to have a look at and not a world full of just towers and bussiness centres!!
Here too in my locality we start replenishment projects to help our society look a bit cleaner and greener.
They are doing a great job.