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by Danielle Nierenberg on April 22, 2009
I recently posted the blog below on 1well.org, an organization devoted to supporting small scale projects in the developing world that empower communities, protect public health, and ensure sustainable livelihoods (and 1well’s director is my good pal, Dan Morrison). Worldwatch also cares deeply about highlighting the role of gender when we write about environmental issues. State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World highlights the toll climate change will have on vulnerable groups, including poor women in developing countries who are responsible for growing and preparing food and who will likely be the most adversely affected by changes in weather patterns and water scarcity that are results of climate change.
by Danielle Nierenberg on November 2, 2007
Earlier this week, the World Cancer Research Fund released its global report on diet and cancer. The last time they released this report-—in 1997—it stirred up more than a little controversy. A decade later, the complaints are even louder.
by Danielle Nierenberg on October 18, 2007
The food blogs have been buzzing this week with the news that a new "grass-fed" standard for meat was released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But why all the hooplah and controversy over labeling?
by Danielle Nierenberg on October 11, 2007
The other day, I got some funny looks from a journalist who was interviewing me for an upcoming series on World Food Day. She asked me to list some of the ways I thought world hunger could be reduced. In addition to pointing to the need for better distribution of food and other resources, I gave my standard spiel about growing more food in cities. But what made the journalist look askance was my description of how exactly urban farmers in some parts of the world are fertilizing their crops: with human manure and urine.
by Danielle Nierenberg on September 27, 2007 Remember the uproar in 1995 when school kids in Minnesota began finding frogs with extra limbs? Speculation centered on pesticides, increased UV radiation, and infection from parasites—which ultimately turned out to be the “villain.”
by Danielle Nierenberg on September 20, 2007 On Monday, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization predicted—in a surprising move for them—that the links between factory farming and disease are likely to worsen as human and livestock populations increase and our appetite for meat grows.
by Danielle Nierenberg on September 13, 2007 It’s been an interesting month for folks like me who write about farm animals. First, the American Journal of Public Health printed an editorial saying our appetite for meat products can contribute to the spread of diseases like avian flu. Then today, The Lancet published a study declaring that eating less red meat can help curb climate change.
by Danielle Nierenberg on September 11, 2007 The first international technical conference on Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, held last week in Interlaken, Switzerland, didn’t get much coverage from the mainstream media—unfortunately.
by Danielle Nierenberg on September 6, 2007 Earlier this week, an MD I have long admired sent me an e-mail with the subject line, “I never thought I’d live to see the day.” When I opened his message, I found an excerpt from an editorial about zoonotic diseases in the current issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
by Danielle Nierenberg on August 29, 2007 As summer draws to a close here in DC, it seems like an appropriate time to give a few updates on some of the issues we’ve previously covered in this blog.
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