Bernie Reyes's blog From across the pond, amid the sniping and bickering of the current election season in the United Kingdom, comes a worthy idea: enshrining in law the nation’s commitment to provide a certain level of foreign development aid. In a ...
Bernie Reyes's blog After the passage of the health care bill, doing the big and historic is again possible in politics. On the international front, the equivalent is President Obama’s Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative, popularly known as Fe ...
Bernie Reyes's blog WASHINGTON, DC – In the new initiative to end hunger through agriculture development, an old African proverb is lighting the way: If you want to go fast, go it alone. If you want to go far, go together. For the Obama administrat ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Before the calamitous earthquake, Haiti was inBefore the calamitous earthquake, Haiti was in the news for another tremor: the global food crisis of 2008. Shortages of rice and the resulting high prices had poor Haitians foraging ...
Bernie Reyes's blog Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution, stands as a monument to how one determined individual can make a huge difference in the fight against hunger. But he often stressed that it took an army of individuals, with a ...
Bernie Reyes's blog In 2003, while reporting in the famine fields of Africa, I met an American aid worker who suggested I expand my research on global hunger: “You should look into hunger in America, too,” she suggested. I moved back to the U.S. in 2 ...
Bernie Reyes's blog They were listening in the hills of Rwanda a year ago when a new American president, this one with African lineage, took the oath of office. Minutes into his inaugural address, Barack Obama stirred their hopes: “To the people of ...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/150610-hunger-nutrition-cell-phone-fa... Dan Glickman June 10, 2015 National GeographicGlobal Food & Agriculture, AfricaGlobal Food & AgricultureAfrica Dan Glickman ...
The city of Dadaab is one like no other. Sitting in the middle of Kenya’s inhospitable northern desert, this nearly 25 year old refugee camp is home to almost 350,000 Somalis, many of whom have never experienced life beyond its walls. Unable to return home ...
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2015/06/15/elephants-in-the-room-urban-primac... Kris Hartley June 15, 2015 Africa at LSEGlobal Cities, Global Economy, AfricaGlobal Cities, Global EconomyAfrica Kris Hartley ...
