Originally featured in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on June 30, 2010 and written by Danielle Nierenberg, Molly Theobald and Stephanie Hanson.
It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the fact that 1 billion people worldwide are going to bed hungry ...
It's not every day you meet someone from Raleigh while travelling in Lusaka, Zambia. Dale Lewis might not have intended to spend decades in the landlocked African country of 12 million, but his passion for protecting wildlife and for conservatio...
In the US, it seems like we only hear about what's going wrong in Africa. We see and read stories about famine, HIV/Aids, disease, or conflict.
In fact, few Americans will ever step foot in countries like Malawi or Zambia, largely because our me...
By Dr Jacob Wanyama and Danielle Nierenberg
Maralal, Kenya, is mostly known for its wildlife. And as we made the seven hour, bumpy trek from Nairobi -- half of it on unpaved roads -- we saw our fair share of water buffaloes, rhinos, impala, and gi...
By Danielle Nierenberg and Jim Devries
From public-service announcements on television to billboards -- it's the motto for a place that just 15 years ago was torn apart by genocide. More than one million people were murdered in 1994 as ethnic stri...
Danielle Nierenberg, an expert on livestock and sustainability, currently serves as project director of State of World 2011 for the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington DC-based environmental think-tank. Her knowledge of factory farming and its global spread and sustainable agriculture has been cited widely in The New York Times Magazine, the International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post and other publications. 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 organisation) and 1Well (an NGO focused on sustainable development projects all over the world). She holds a master of science in agriculture, food, and environment from Tufts University and a BA in environmental policy from Monmouth College.
