Bernie Reyes's blog Lutacho, Kenya I returned from a day in the field with Kenyan smallholder farmers last week to find these words from U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack as the Newsbrief’s Quote of the Week: “As I travel around the world tal ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Bungoma, Kenya It’s been Christmas in February this week for thousands of smallholder farmers in western Kenya. Seeds and fertilizer for the imminent planting season arrived. They were carried in the backs of 400 10-ton trucks, t ...
Bernie Reyes's blog As the budget battles intensify, a reality check is in order: Slashing foreign aid targeted for boosting development in poor countries will hardly make a dent in the deficit. The savings will be negligible, but the consequences w ...
Bernie Reyes's blog For those of us who were listening to the President’s State of the Union address this week, listening for a reference to the fight against hunger through agriculture development, we heard this near the end of the speech: “This is ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Nairobi, Kenya Once again, the great paradox of Africa emerges: hunger in one part of a country, food surplus in another. A persistent drought is biting hard in the northern and eastern reaches of Kenya, threatening herders and th ...
Bernie Reyes's blog November/December 2010 Issue of Foreign Affairs Reprinted by permission of FOREIGN AFFAIRS, November/December 2010. Copyright (2010) by the Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. Throughout this past summer, in the long-suffering hill ...
Bernie Reyes's blog It is lamentable that the deep and persistent economic woes in the U.S. and Europe are breeding a certain dangerous myopia in international development afIt is lamentable that the deep and persistent economic woes in the U.S. and ...
Bernie Reyes's blog We – “we” being the rich world — asked the poorest countries to draw up comprehensive agriculture investment plans and tell us which were the highest priority projects to boost food production. Do that, we informed them, and we w ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Listen to these African voices: “As our governments take action, we need the international community to do its part as well. A green revolution in Africa depends on locally driven solutions plus reliable donor support. Neither in ...
Bernie Reyes's blog In Rwanda earlier this summer, I visited a rural project with the lyrical name, IBYIRINGIRO. It means “hope” in Kinyarwanda, and trumpets this slogan: “that in which we have faith for a better tomorrow.” The “that” in which Ibyir ...
