Author: borderjumpers

Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. “Meet the Nourishing the Planet Advisory Group” is a regular series where we profile advisors of the Nourishing the Planet project. This week,...

Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. “We’ve got hundreds of local foods, almost 600 that we’ve categorized through our research,” said Kristof Nordin in a January...

Crossposted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. Full disclosure: We had never heard of the Republic of Mauritius until the day we bought a ticket to go there. Our pathetic excuse: Lonely Planet...

Crossposted from BorderJumpers.org.Originally featured on Thought Leader, written by Danielle Nierenberg, senior researcher at the Worldwatch Institute and Jim De Vries, director of Heifer International’s Programs...

Cross-posted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. The highways in southern Africa are filled with trucks carrying food aid across the continent. In the past, much of the maize, rice, soy, and other foods...