Bernie Reyes's blog The smallholder farmers of Africa know all about fiscal cliffs. “Everybody wants money,” Leonida Wanyama despaired as she neared the precipice of her own personal cliff during the hunger season. She had no food in the house and no ...
Bernie Reyes's blog I often write and speak about the awful oxymoron, “Hungry Farmers.” How can the smallholder farmers of Africa suffer through an annual hunger season when every morning they rise with one task: grow food for their families? That t ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Forward with feeding the future! Four more years, that’s what we got last night. Four more years to solidify American leadership in ending hunger through agricultural development. Four more years to make President Obama’s Feed t ...
Bernie Reyes's blog The most difficult conversations were about the malnourished children. “When you, as a parent, see your child not eating enough to be satisfied, you are hurt, but you are not in a position to control the situation,” Zipporah Biket ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Francis Mamati was gobsmacked by what he heard. Why would they say that?, he wondered. Sitting under a shade tree in front of his little house in western Kenya, Francis had just been told that there are people who think African sm ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Since Mitt Romney chose Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate, many people have peered into the House budget plan that the Wisconsin Congressman shaped – the so-called Ryan budget — to see what it might portend for a Rom ...
Bernie Reyes's blog The London Summer Olympics have been chock full of wondrous achievements and inspiring moments: Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt, Sarah Attar, Oscar Pistorius, an impressive roster of African athletes rising from deep poverty to the med ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Are we paying attention now? The shriveled corn and wilting beans and severely parched soil of the U.S. farm belt are trying to tell us something: focus on the global food chain. More than half of U.S. counties have been declared ...
Bernie Reyes's blog As we have heard during this week’s international conference in Washington, D.C., there has been wondrous progress on the AIDS treatment front since President George W. Bush launched the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief ...
Bernie Reyes's blog The farmer fell to his knees, landing hard on the parched soil, and raised his arms to heaven. “God, have mercy on us,” he prayed, opening his palms to his field. “Provide us with the rain, for when it rains enough, the dirt will ...
