Bernie Reyes's blog It is one of Africa’s cruelest ironies that as the planting season begins, as it is now across much of the continent, so does the hunger season. The food stocks from the previous harvest are running low and it will be several mont ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Here we go again. No sooner, it seems, did agriculture development spending fairly well survive the budget slashing for 2011 and 2012 then it is under attack again in the 2013 deliberations. The House yesterday, working along par ...
Bernie Reyes's blog There is little mail service in rural Africa, so the smallholder farmers there wouldn’t have received last week’s annual letter of U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Rajiv Shah. But they certainly would welco ...
Bernie Reyes's blog I’m surprised that “surprise” is a word being used to describe President Obama’s nomination of Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank. Surprise, perhaps, over the specific name, because Dr. Kim hadn’t figured prominently in the spec ...
Bernie Reyes's blog The most common tool in African agriculture is also the most impractical. Or at least it appears to be. It is the hoe, which is used for plowing, planting, weeding and harvesting. It is a simple tool that produces the majority ...
Bernie Reyes's blog At President Obama’s first international summit, the G8 meeting in L’Aquila, Italy in July 2009, he rallied his fellow rich world leaders to commit to investing $22 billion to conquer global hunger through agricultural development ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Those were interesting photos from the dusty archives that appeared in various newspapers and TV reports this week, pictures of a visitor from China inspecting hogs, vegetable farms and grain processing facilities in Iowa back in ...
Bernie Reyes's blog At the foot of Mount Kenya, a patch of maize stalks are defying the odds. They are standing tall and robust in a trial field where the soil had been intentionally depleted of nitrogen, one of the essential nutrients for maize. “I ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Learning by doing is the philosophy of the Pan-American agricultural school known as Zamorano in Honduras. Students come to class every day dressed in their uniform of blue jeans and blue shirt. They come to work, not just to st ...
Bernie Reyes's blog A not so funny thing happened on the way to the G20 meeting in Cannes last week. The leaders from the group of industrial and developing economies were heading in the direction of taking bold action against hunger and poverty and ...
