We can make food aid more sustainable not by giving away Western food, but by working with local farmers and creating a market for their crops in the region. ONE Agriculture Fellow Roger Thurow reports. Ten years after the Ethiopian famine of 2003, when international food aid rushed in to feed 14 million people, another
Alright. So, you’ve signed ONE’s petition to end chronic child malnutrition for 25 million children (or if you haven’t, click here right now to sign it, then come back!). You’re now part of ONE’s global food revolution, a movement of nearly 250,000 ONE members around the globe who care about this specific issue. Err, now
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FEATURED AUTHOR: Roger Thurow
Ten years ago, Africa’s hunger season reached new levels of desperation. Hunger crises gripped the continent from the Horn to the southern tip. In Ethiopia, the feast of successive bumper harvests had incredibly, swiftly turned to famine, with 14 million people on the doorstep of starvation, surviving on international food aid. A drought spread through central Africa and crept down the east coast, destroying harvests. In southern Africa, AIDS was creating a new kind of famine where it wasn’t the crops that were dying but the farmers who planted them.Something had to change. And it did.
In the 2005 film Sideways, the main character Miles has a scene where he discusses the reasons why he prefers pinot noir to other wine. He describes how it’s a tough grape to grow and that only the most patient and nurturing growers are up to the task. However, if done right, the end result
ONE’s Data Report holds governments accountable to their past commitments on agriculture and food security and looks ahead to future opportunities for growth. To celebrate the report and to encourage reading it closely, we’ve got a quiz below that will test your knowledge! Need help finding the answers? All of them can be found on the ONE Data Report. Type your answers in the form below the quiz, then click the submit button. Why take the quiz? Awesome prizes will be given for winning participants!
By Roger Thurow, ONE agriculture fellow and the author of The Last Hunger Season. As word spread earlier this week of the food aid reform section of President Obama’s 2014 budget, I wondered how Jerman Amente would greet the news. He was a wiry 39-year-old Ethiopian farmer and grain trader when I first met him
Over a billion people on this planet live in extreme poverty. Yet, for many of us, extreme poverty is a fairly abstract, intangible issue. The Live Below the Line campaign focuses in on one of these elements — food — and challenges people to eat on $1.50 per day for 5 days while fundraising for a charity partner that works on the ground on extreme poverty issues.
It is very easy for governments to make commitments aimed at addressing societal challenges, but delivering on such commitments by transforming them into action can be a challenge. It is imperative for non-state actors, and the public at large, to challenge governments when they fail to deliver on their commitments if public investment is to have a positive and sustainable impact on societal challenges like hunger, food insecurity and poverty. Robust and credible empirical evidence is necessary to hold governments to account for their commitments.
As winners of the ONE Campus Challenge’s THRIVE campaign last semester, Carthage College played host to ONE agriculture fellow, journalist, and author, Roger Thurow on March 18. It took months of planning, and Carthage was proud to hear from this renowned anti-hunger advocate and champion. Roger was able to share his passion for agriculture development to students throughout the day in large group presentations and classroom discussions. For many of the students to whom he spoke, this was their first time hearing about the issues. For others, this was the first time faces and stories were put to the numbers.The gears in their heads were clearly turning as Thurow shared his experiences helping Kenyan farmers increase their yields and provide stronger food security for their community and families. As Roger demonstrated the tremendous and sustainable benefits smart US agricultural investments are quickly achieving in Africa, he asked Carthage students to lend their voice to the ONE Campaign in advocating on behalf of these programs.
As ONE launches its agriculture report, the AU remarks that the new focus should be on investments that make a difference to farmers! Nachilala Nkombo, ONE’s Africa Deputy Director, reports from Addis Ababa. ONE staffers with Molly, Wangui, Nonny, Nachilala, Warren and AU Commissioner, Mrs Rhoda. This week, 300 or more people gathered in the African Union’s headquarters
Hailey Tucker, communications associate at One Acre Fund, provides an intimate portrait of the life of a farmer. In partnership with One Acre Fund, we’ll be following Anne, a smallholder farmer from Kenya, for a whole growing season. From planting to harvest, we will check in every month to see what life is really like for a farmer in rural Kenya.
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