Bernie Reyes's blog This week in Cancun, international negotiators have been consumed with climate change. And on Dec. 1, all around the world, red ribbons were out in force for World AIDS Day. Which gives us a chance to shout again: Why Not Hunger? ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Bread for the World’s new Hunger Report raises the stakes right from its very first sentence: “2011 is a time of opportunity to achieve lasting progress against global hunger and malnutrition.” Then it raises them further: “Feed t ...
Bernie Reyes's blog There’s plenty of numbers-watching going on in Washington D.C. and other world capitals these days. Mainly, the numbers with currency symbols in front of them, the numbers in government budgets. Holding the line on spending is a ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Hidden hunger was brought out into the open in a big way this week – and so was a promising solution. As we have often noted, nearly one billion people suffer from a chronic lack of food – this is a visible hunger all too familiar ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Speaking on a panel earlier this year, I was outlining the gathering momentum in the fight against hunger: The push of the Obama administration to create Feed the Future, the commitments of the G8 and G20 leaders to increase suppo ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Des Moines, Iowa To honor this year’s winners of the World Food Prize, this column will go easy on the outrage and heavy on the inspire. That’s not to say David Beckmann of Bread for the World and Jo Luck of Heifer International a ...
Women are ubiquitous and critical to the nutritional well-being of their families, yet they are often invisible to policymakers, public officials, community leaders, and researchers. Effecting significant decreases in the number of hungry poor people, as w ...
Bernie Reyes's blog For anyone who doesn’t “get” the moral and economic imperative of ending hunger through agriculture development, here’s another motivating imperative: security, both domestic and global. The phrase “food security” and the mission ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Just back from Sudan, Rajiv Shah, USAID administrator, came to the Chicago Council’s Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security this morning with fresh evidence that food security is the key to national prosperity, regional ...
Bernie Reyes's blog As Rajiv Shah spoke at last week’s Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security, I thought about an image in his old office at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation before he became Administrator of the U.S. Agency for Inte ...
