Author: borderjumpers

Cross posted from Nourishing the Planet.A recent article in the New York Times highlights the critical role that agriculture will play in rebuilding Haiti in the wake of the devastating earthquake of January 2010.Food security...

Cross posted from Nourishing the Planet. For half the world’s population, every meal depends on an open fire that is fueled by wood, coal, dung, and other smoke-producing combustibles. These indoor cookfires consume large...

Cross posted from Nourishing the Planet.This is the second in a two-part series of my visit to Africa Harvest in Johannesburg, South Africa.Daniel Kamanga, the Director of Communications of Africa Harvest, and former journalist,...

This is the first of a two-part series to Africa Harvest, in Johannesburg, South Africa. Cross posted from Nourishing the Planet. In our Nourishing the Planet project we’re looking at how farmers and researchers all over...

Cross posted from Nourishing the Planet. For the past few months, we’ve been collecting information about agricultural innovations from all over the world (survey in English and French). We shared the initial responses in...