Bernie Reyes's blog With the London Olympics approaching, it is time that we dusted off the old Nike slogan – Just Do It – and apply it to the agricultural development front. We have just finished up a dazzling run of high-level summit meetings that ...
Bernie Reyes's blog There is no doubt that the financial crisis roiling Europe has unsettled world markets, scrambled politics, shaken re-election prospects in several countries and darkened many 401-k prospects. But as the drama stretches on and on ...
Bernie Reyes's blog It was a beautiful day, as Bono might sing, when President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton and a phalanx of corporate leaders, and the Irish rock star himself, gathered in Washington DC on May 18 to shift the effort to end hu ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Too poor, too remote, too insignificant. That was the unofficial mantra behind the neglect of smallholder farmers in Africa for the past four decades. It was recited by the farmers’ own governments, by rich world governments, by ...
Bernie Reyes's blog President Barack Obama issued an “all hands on deck” command to combat chronic hunger and malnutrition, which he said was “an outrage and an affront to who we are.” Speaking at the Chicago Council’s Symposium on Global Agriculture ...
Bernie Reyes's blog The Chicago Council Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security opened with a jolt of urgency and possibility. “The transformational day begins,” proclaimed Dan Glickman, co-chair of the Council’s Global Agricultural Develop ...
Bernie Reyes's blog For many Moms, their biggest wish on Mother’s Day is to hear those special three little words from their children: I Love You. For the mothers and women farmers of Africa, they also dearly wish to hear three little letters: A-N-D. ...
Bernie Reyes's blog You can’t build peace on empty stomachs. Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution, was fond of saying that. He may not have been the first to formulate that philosophy, but he certainly was one of its most ardent purvey ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Good work, now keep going. That is the message to the U.S. government – both the administration and Congress – from the 2012 Progress Report on American Leadership in Global Agricultural Development released today by The Chicago C ...
Bernie Reyes's blog As the rainy season arrived and the planting began in East Africa at the end of March, drought and hunger continued to creep across West Africa. The African Paradox of feast and famine was forming again. The U.S. response of food ...
