At the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, Arkansas, former World Food Prize winner Catherine Bertini spoke on how we can feed the world: by empowering girls.
She reminded the audience of students, citizens and some of the staff, board and volunteers from the Heifer International Headquarters next door, that there is enough food [...]
We know now the so-called “Green Revolution” that turfed millions of small farmers off their land for chemical-intensive industrial-sized farms was anything but “green.” And it didn’t work: 1 billion people are dying early from malnutrition and 1 billion are dying early from diet-related diseases while we continue to ravage the environment.
So how [...]