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Entries by Danielle Nierenberg from 07/2010

Thinking Big by Starting Small

| Posted 07.07.2010 | World
Read More: One Acre Fund, Stephanie Hanson, Funding, State of the World 2011, Farmers, Worldwatch, Innovations That Nourish the Planet, Hunger, Policy, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Poverty, State of the World, World News

Agriculture funding should focus on the many low-tech, African-led innovations that are already helping to alleviate hunger and poverty in environmentally sustainable ways all over the continent.

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Fighting for Farmworkers' Rights for More Than 40 Years

| Posted 07.23.2010 | World
Read More: Baldemar Velasquez, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Nourishing the Planet, Worldwatch, Immigrants, Immigration, Innovations That Nourish the Planet, Farmworkers, State of the World, Floc, World News

This is a three part series of an interview with Baldemar Velasquez, President and Founder of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee.

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Hope and Progress in the Developing World, Despite Daunting Challenges

| Posted 07.26.2010 | World
Read More: Funding, Seattle Times, Bridges to Understanding, Nourishing the Planet, Farmer to Farmer, Innovations That Nourish the Planet, Theatre for Policy Advocacy, State of the World, World News

Who better to consult -- and to equip with the tools to help out -- in the global effort to combat hunger than the youth, women and farmers who will most benefit from it?

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