Danielle Nierenberg, Director, Nourishing the Planet Program

Contact Information
Title: Director, Nourishing the Planet Program
Email: dnierenberg@worldwatch.org
Phone: +1 (202) 452-1992

Danielle Nierenberg, an expert on livestock and sustainable agriculture, currently serves as co-Project Director of State of World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet (www.nourishingtheplanet.org)  for the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington, DC-based environmental think tank. She has spent the last year traveling to more than 25 countries across sub-Saharan Africa looking at environmentally sustainable ways of alleviating hunger and poverty.

Her knowledge of global agriculture issues has been cited widely or published in The New York Times, USA Today, the International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, BBC, the Guardian (UK), the Mail and Gaurdian (South Africa), the East African (Kenya), RAI (Italy), the Jerusalem Post, TIME magazine, Reuters, Agence France Presse, Voice of America, the Times of India, the Strait Times (Singapore), Radio Free Asia, and dozens of other major broadcast outlets and publications.
 
Danielle worked for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic and volunteers at farmers markets in Washington, DC. She also serves as the food security advisor for Citizen Effect (an NGO focused on sustainable development projects all over the world). She holds an M.S. in Agriculture, Food, and Environment from Tufts University and a B.A. in Environmental Policy from Monmouth College.


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Selected Publications

  • State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet, (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011).
  • "Global Farm Animal Production and Global Warming: Impacting and Mitigating Climate Change," Environmental Health Perspectives, May 2008.
  • "Meat and Seafood: The Most Costly Ingredients in the Global Diet," in Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2008 (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008).
  • "A Fowl Plague," World Watch, January/February 2007.
  • "Farming the Cities," in Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2007 (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007).
  • "Rethinking the Global Meat Industry," in Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2006 (New York: W.W. Norton, 2006).
  • Happier Meals: Rethinking the Global Meat Industry, Worldwatch Paper 171 (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2005).
  • "Watching What We Eat," in Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2004 (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004).
  • "Factory Farming in the Developing World," World Watch, May/June 2003.
  • "America's Endless Meat Recall," Providence Journal (RI), October 2002, op-ed co-authored with Brian Halweil.
  • Correcting Gender Myopia: Gender Equity, Women's Welfare, and the Environment, Worldwatch Paper 161 (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, September 2002).
  •  "Biosecurity Requires Drug Reform," editorial, World Watch, January/February 2002.
  • "Dim Vision" (on the Bush administration's environmental agenda), World Watch, July/August 2001.
  • "How Now Mad Cow" (on mad cow disease and foot-and-mouth disease), International Herald Tribune, March 2001, co-authored with Brian Halweil.
  • "Migrants and Refugees on the Move," in Worldwatch Institute, Vital Signs 2001 (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001).
  • "Toxic Fertility" (on disruption of the nitrogen cycle), World Watch, March/April, 2001.
  • "Cultivating Biotech Trees," World Watch, November/December 2000.
  • "The Meaning of Money" (on the Federal Technology Transfer Act), The Networker (Science and Environmental Health Network), April 2000.
  • "It Isn't Easy Being Green," The Networker (Science and Environmental Health Network), March 2000.