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Danielle Nierenberg

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Danielle Nierenberg, Senior Researcher

Email: dnierenberg@worldwatch.org
Phone: +1 (202) 452-1992

Danielle Nierenberg is a Senior Researcher at the Worldwatch Institute and co-Project Director of State of World 2011: Nourishing the Planet. Her knowledge of sustainable agriculture issues, in particular factory farming and its global spread, has been cited widely in the New York Times Magazine, the International Herald Tribune, the Washington Post, and other media. Danielle worked for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic and currently volunteers at farmers' markets, the Earth Sangha (an urban reforestation organization), and 1Well (an NGO focused on sustainable development projects around 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.

Danielle appeared in the 2008 documentary "Meat the Truth" discussing the impact of livestock production on climate change, and her work has been televised on Voice of America and local television and radio stations around the world. She has presented to international audiences including members of the Mexican National Congress, the American Public Health Association, the British Society for Animal Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as university students, policymakers, farmers, chefs, and consumers.

Selected Publications

  • "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.