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Opportunity LiveBlog: Roger Thurow’s Global Food for Thought

By Sonja Egeland Kelly on March 19, 2010

Roger Thurow’s job is to “outrage and inspire.” His recent book, co-authored with Scott Kilman, Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, certainly does just that. He previously spoke at our Fall 2009 Conference, and Opportunity is delighted to host him again at our Spring 2010 Conference. The Opportunity audience sat enraptured as we listened Read more…

Posted in Events, What We're Reading
Tagged Action Against Hunger's Humanitarian Award, Africa, Agriculture Microfinance, Chicago, Christianity Today, Council on Global Affairs, Crop insurance, Ending Hunger, Ending Poverty, Enough, Europe, Global Agriculture and Food Policy, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Roger Thurow, Scott Kilman, Senior Fellow, spring 2010 microfinance conference, spring microfinance conference, Stories, The Wall Street Journal, United Nations

Spotlight from the Field: Filipino Farmers Weather Life’s Typhoons

By Sonja Egeland Kelly on November 5, 2009

Having been ravaged by four back-to-back typhoons, the Philippines is enduring a humanitarian crisis on a national scale. Farmers have lost entire crops, families have lost thriving businesses and community members have had to lean on one another for support. The good news is that MicroEnsure, Opportunity International’s microinsurance subsidiary, and TSKI, one of Opportunity’s Read more…

Posted in Loans, Microinsurance, Our Work
Tagged Crop insurance, Farmers, MFI, Microensure, Microinsurance, Philippines, Smallholder farmer, TSKI

Live: Roger Thurow Insists There is "Enough." #BOG09

By Sonja Egeland Kelly on October 2, 2009

Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman’s compelling book Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty tells the story of the world’s food. It raises the question of supply and demand, which is easy to understand even if you were not an economics major. There is enough food to feed everyone in the world. Read more…

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Tagged #BOG09, Africa, and Kenya, Board of Governors, Board of Governors Conference, Client Stories, Conference, Crop insurance, Enough, Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, Ethiopia, Farmer, Francis Pelekamoyo, Ghana, Hunger, Loans, Malawi, Mozambique, Opportunity International, Passion, Roger Thurow, Rural lending, Rwanda, Scott Kilman, Sought Africa

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