Louise Iverson's blog big ideas 150406.jpg Gardening's New Ethos: Help the Planet (and Look Good Too) From the biggest botanical gardens to the smallest backyard plots and terraces, there's a movement underway to make gardens work harder fo ...
Louise Iverson's blog By Paul E. Weisenfeld, Vice President, Global Programs, International Development Group, RTI International The United Nations-led process to establish sustainable development goals (SDGs) is moving forward with active and broa ...
hfhw header.jpg Louise Iverson's blog The Chicago Council’s campaign, “Healthy Food for a Healthy World,” builds awareness about the important role food can play in promoting health and alleviating malnutrition. We publish a blog post weekly explorin ...
Louise Iverson's blog By Jeff Klein, President and CEO, The Global FoodBanking Network Those of us in the business of fighting hunger are particularly interested in the development of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). That is because our work ...
Louise Iverson's blog By Arlene Mitchell, Executive Director of the Global Child Nutrition Foundation (GCNF) My work entails encouraging developing country governments to provide nutritious school meals sourced from local farmers. Hundreds of million ...
Louise Iverson's blog By John McDermott and Delia Grace Food safety is a growing concern locally and globally. High-profile food scares in recent years, in rich and emerging countries, have raised awareness that healthy eating must be safe eating. Un ...
Louise Iverson's blog By Lindsay Coates, Executive Vice President, InterAction Conventional wisdom usually does not link trade to programs and policies that address poverty. We need to unpack this conventional wisdom and explore how improving key a ...
Louise Iverson's blog BIGIDEAS.jpg This Startup Wants to Fight Deforestation … with Robots Drone technology has been used anywhere from burrito delivery services to transporting confidential government documents. Some drones, though, are designed to ...
Louise Iverson's blog By Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. From Thomas Malthus in 1798 to Paul Ehrlich and the so-called Club of Rome in the 1960s and 70s, history is rife with doomsayers who falsely predicted mass starvation. Now, with the world’s populati ...
Louise Iverson's blog By Salif Romano Niang, Cofounder, Malô An African proverb says that “you cannot work for food when there is no food for work.” Farmers across the developing world are all too familiar with this sentiment. In my work supporting ...
