Bernie Reyes's blog The clamor begins just inside the door of Ridge Academy elementary school on Chicago’s south side. Short essays and drawings shout out to all those who pass: “Many people are dying now because of hunger.” “In many countries, peop ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Earth Day was a green-letter day in the fight against global hunger. Clamor was raised. Action was taken. Momentum was accelerated. Earth Day in Washington was all about growing more things. Particularly growing more food. And ...
Bernie Reyes's blog It’s all the same really, the clamor over hunger, climate change and environmental preservation. The common goal: improve food production and nutritional quality to feed the planet’s ever-expanding and more prosperous population ...
Bernie Reyes's blog It was in the scary days of the Cold War when Norman Borlaug, a plant breeder from small-town Iowa, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970. An odd choice, perhaps, given the nuclear standoff at the time, but the Norwegian committee be ...
Bernie Reyes's blog A blunt reminder of the task at hand came from Europe this week, aimed at the powers-that-be in the Group of Eight leading industrial countries, also known as the G8: “Declarations, commitments and speeches don’t feed hungry peopl ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Bill Gates calls himself an “impatient optimist.” Would that we all shared his optimism and, especially, his impatience. Testifying last week before the Senate foreign relations committee, he injected a dose of urgency into the t ...
Bernie Reyes's blog They are marching again in Alabama with no less passion than the civil rights campaigners of the 1960s. “Our time is now!,” say the students of Auburn University who are plotting a 60-mile march from their campus to Montgomery la ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Dublin, Ireland His travels may take him to Ethiopia, Malawi, Lesotho or to the far corners of Ireland. His meetings may be with heads of state, parliamentarians, budgetary bean counters or with farmers and school children. His ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Given the carnage of the first decade of the 21st Century, the humanitarian front would seem an unlikely source for a beacon of light. But here it is, shining through the gloom: Where grassroots clamor is raised, wonders follow. ...
Dan Glickman is a distinguished fellow of global food and agriculture at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. For nine years, he cochaired the Council's Global Food and Agriculture Program. Glickman is vice president of The Aspen Institute and exec ...
