Author: borderjumpers

Valuing What They Already Have

Cross posted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. Richard Haigh doesn’t look like your typical African pastoralist. Unlike many Africans who grew up tending cattle, sheep, goats, and other...

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1,000 Words About Johannesburg

Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. Been scratching our heads about how to write 1,000 original, inspiring, and exciting words on one of the most written about countries in the world....

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1,000 Words About Mozambique

We love the energy of Maputo. It’s the good kind of energy where we never felt like people were trying to hustle us like in the tourist traps of Arusha and Zanzibar, Tanzania. We also felt safe to wander in the evenings...

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Cultivating Food Security in Africa

By Danielle Nierenberg and Abdou Tenkouano, special thanks to the Kansas City Star As hunger and drought spread across Africa, a huge effort is underway to increase yields of staple crops, such as maize, wheat, cassava, and...

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