Author: borderjumpers

Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet, www.nourishingtheplanet.com “Meet the Nourishing the Planet Advisory Group” is a new regular series where we profile advisors of the Nourishing...

Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. In 1999, when he purchased his first treadle pump, Robert Mwanza, a farmer in Lusaka, Zambia, was struggling to  make ends meet and without reliable...

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. It’s hard to believe, but an estimated 2.6 billion people in the developing  world—nearly a third of the global population—still lack...

Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. When we arrived by bus at the HIV/AIDS Resource Center in Katuna, Uganda (the border between Rwanda and Uganda), twenty men were intently watching a...

This is the second in a two-part series about my visit with Jan Nijhoff, who works with the Common Market for Eastern and South Africa (COMESA) and Michigan State University in Lusaka, Zambia. Cross posted from Worldwatch...