Danielle Nierenberg
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Danielle Nierenberg is President of Food Tank and an expert on sustainable agriculture and food issues. She has written extensively on gender and population, the spread of factory farming in the developing world and innovations in sustainable agriculture.

Voices of GFAR: Providing Better Extension Services for Family Farmers

A sound agricultural innovation system requires a combination of diverse extension service schemes that mobilize a variety of methods to educate smallholders.

WANTED: Young Entrepreneurs with Sustainable Ideas that Will Change the World

Unilever helps young entrepreneurs bring sustainable and healthful living to people around the world.

These Twenty Young People Are Changing the Food System in Huge Ways

Youth around the world are creating inspiring projects and products that are changing how we grow, prepare, and eat food.

Become a Revolutionary—Grow Your Own Food!

You too can make a difference in our food system: grow your own food!

VIDEO: The Stinkin’ Truth About Garlic

The newest How Does it Grow? episode takes viewers to Christopher Ranch, the largest garlic producer in the U.S., to tell the story of how garlic grows.

Reaching Across Boundaries: Broad-Based Investment Strategies For Improved Land Use

Collaborating to improve landscape management: A new report outlines innovative approaches to financing and investment strategies.

A U.S. World Cup of Food Waste

A push to reduce U.S. food waste by the next World Cup in 2018.

Climate-Smart Agriculture Hits the 21st Century

“Climate-smart” agriculture – agriculture that is productive, resilient, and part of the solution to the climate problem – must become the new paradigm.

Book of the Week: The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food

Food Tank Book of the Week: The Seed Underground. Saving the world, one seed at a time.

How Smallholder Farmer Access to ICTs are Improving Farming

The Global Forum on Agricultural Research is working to improve access to ICT technologies for better farming.

Helping the Food and Restaurant Industry Take the High Road

Despite it’s monumental size and profitability, the restaurant industry still contains six of the ten lowest paying jobs in the United States.

Earth Day: Promoting Urban Revitalization and Green Cities

Earth Day is an annual celebration of the planet’s biodiversity and an opportunity to highlight solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

Edible Institute: Bringing Together Leaders for a Better Food System

Food Tank highlight five of the many Edible publications who are a voice for the good food movement. Join us at the Edible institute May 10-11!

Six Innovative Initiatives that are Working to Strengthen Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture

Food Tank and GFAR highlight six innovative projects and initiatives that are working to strengthen women’s empowerment in agriculture.

Cesar Chavez, an American Hero

Here are five critical campaigns fighting for the rights of workers in the food system and continuing Chavez’s legacy for social justice and fair wages for all.

More Crop Per Drop

On World Water Day this year, Food Tank honors the projects, people, and programs working tirelessly to achieve more with less water.

Food Tank’s Spring Reading List

Food Tank has hand-picked 16 books that have educated, inspired, and informed us for your spring reading list.

Calling all Food Heroes! World Food Prize Nominations 2014

Who has made an exceptional, significant, individual achievement in transforming the food system? Food Tank wants to know–please share your nominations with us

Celebrating the Potential of Permaculture

Food Tank highlights ten projects that embrace permaculture practices worldwide. In March, permaculture experts will gather for the Permaculture Voices event.

Healing the Land, Grazing for Solutions

Allan Savory’s vision for a more sustainable food system, the “Savory Grazing Method,” facing criticism, and his long-term plans for The Savory Institute.

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