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Cracking the Code on Food Security: YAO Leader Samantha Snabes Uses Technology to End Hunger
“The Opportunity International Conference changed my life,” says Young Ambassador Samantha Snabes. The fall 2011 conference, says the NASA “social entrepreneur in residence,” was the moment when she became inspired to take action to do her part to end global poverty. Shortly thereafter, she became part of Young Ambassadors for Opportunity (YAO) and is currently working Read more…
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, app, crop yields, crops, David Kone, Dr. Norman Borlaug, Ending Hunger, Ending Poverty, Engineers Without Borders, Financial services, Food security, Geralyn Sheehan, Granada, Hunger, NASA, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Opportunity Nicaragua, Smallholder farmer, south america, USAID, world food prize, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity, yucca, yucca processing plant
Today on World Food Day, there’s Hope for an End to Hunger
Globally, nearly 870 million people are undernourished–about 12% of the world’s population. It’s World Food Day and social media is buzzing with challenging facts and stats about hunger, like the ones in this post. This information is important. There’s no doubt that it’s one of the great injustices that children anywhere go to bed hungry, that Read more…
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Children, Community, Crop insurance, Ending Hunger, Ending Poverty, FAO, Financial services, Food and Agriculture Organization, Food security, Ghana, Global Poverty, IFAD, International Fund for Agricultural Development, Loans, Made for Good, MFI, Microfinance, Microinsurance, Millennium Development Goals, Opportunity International, Poverty, sub-Saharan Africa, Training, Weather-index crop insurance, Women, World Food Day, World Food Programme, world hunger
What We’re Reading: Our Incoming CEO Vicki Escarra in The Non-Profit Times‘s Power & Influence Top 50
What are we reading? This exciting list, of course! Our incoming CEO, Vicki Escarra, as president and CEO of Feeding America, built that nonprofit into a $1.2 billion organization during a time when more Americans than ever were suffering from hunger and food insecurity. In honor of her outstanding work, she’s been named one of The Read more…
Tagged American Cancer Society, American Red Cross, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, CEO, Ending Hunger, Ending Poverty, Feeding America, Food security, Girl Scouts of America, great nonprofits, Hunger, Leaders, Nonprofit, Opportunity International, Poverty, Social Media, The Non-Profit Times, United Way, Vicki Escarra, what we're reading, Women Leaders
What We’re Reading: The World Bank’s Africa Can… End Poverty Blog
The World Bank’s blogs cover a wide range of global economic issues. One blog titled Africa Can… End Poverty is run by Shanta Devarajan who is the Chief Economist for Africa at The World Bank. As continues to expand its work in Africa, including agricultural finance, mobile banking, and financial literacy training, I have highlighted three blog posts Read more…
Tagged Africa, Africa Can... End Poverty, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Blogs, cassava, Cell phone banking, Cell Phones, Chile, Clients, Deanna Giolas, Ending Hunger, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Global Poverty, Indiana University, Mozambique, Opportunity International, Poverty, Smallholder farmer, subsistence farming, The New York Times, The World Bank, what we're reading
Program Update: Opportunity Mozambique is Cultivating Hope among Smallholder Farmers
is helping smallholder farmers achieve optimum output to put more food on the family table and increase food security in their communities. We’re committed to helping farmers in sub-Saharan Africa transition from subsistence to economically- and commercially-active farming. Through an innovative and sustainable approach to agricultural finance, Opportunity provides products and services designed to achieve Read more…
Tagged Agricultural finance, chief transformation officer, Clients, crop yields, Ending Hunger, Farmers, financial literacy training, Food security, Global Poverty, Linda Godinho, Microfinance, Mozambique, Opportunity International, opportunity mozambique, pilot, Poverty, Rural Outreach, rural poverty, Smallholder farmer, sub-Saharan Africa, Training, Transformation, Transformational Training
Do We Know Who These Smallholder Farmers Are? And Do We Care?
Francis Mamati. Leonida Wanyama. Rasoa Wasike. Zipporah Biketi. Roger Thurow, author of The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change, implores us to get to know these farmers–and to support their development–if we are to meet the challenge of doubling food production by 2050 to meet the Read more…
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Chicago, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Children, Clients, Community, Crop insurance, Drought, Ending Hunger, Ending Poverty, Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, Financial services, Global Food for Thought blog, Hunger, Kenya, Loans, Microfinance, Microinsurance, Opportunity International, Poverty, Roger Thurow, Savings, Smallholder farmer, The Last Hunger Season, Training
What We’re Reading: The Launch of Roger Thurow’s New Book The Last Hunger Season
If you’re looking for a summer read that inspires, Roger Thurow just released his new book, The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change. The Last Hunger Season gives you a look into the lives of four smallholder farming families in western Kenya as they work to move from subsistence Read more…
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Ending Hunger, Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, Farmer, farming, Food security, Global Agriculture and Food Policy, Global Food for Thought blog, Hunger, Kenya, Loans, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Poverty, Roger Thurow, Smallholder farmer, what we're reading, Women, women farmers
Obama Announces Food Security Partnership at Chicago Council on Global Affairs Symposium Before the G8
Last Friday, agricultural finance took center stage at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs symposium, “Advancing Food and Nutrition Security,” in Washington, D.C. on the eve of the G8 Summit. President Obama announced a partnership among the G8 member nations, African countries and the private sector called the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, which has a Read more…
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Alliance to End Hunger, Board of Advisors, Bono, Cargill, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Ending Hunger, Food security, G8, Global Agricultural Development Initiative, global hunger, Hillary Clinton, Hunger, Microfinance, Monsanto, ONE blog, Opportunity International, President Obama, Tony Hall
Taking the Live Below the Line Challenge: Actress Malin Akerman, Young Ambassadors, Governors & Staff
All this week, May 7-11, supporters around the country, including members of and , and our own staff took part in the Global Poverty Project’s Live Below the Line challenge to eat and drink for only $1.50 a day. They’re raising awareness for the 1.4 billion people who have to not only eat, but cover Read more…
Tagged Abbi Antablin, Blog, Education, Ending Hunger, Ending Poverty, Global Poverty, Ian Haisley, Insight Trip, Live Below the Line, Malin Akerman, Opportunity International, Poverty, Tanzania, yao-DC
Day 1 of My Live Below the Line Challenge for Opportunity
Living Below the Line – Day 1: Shopping from Ian Haisley on Vimeo. Today is the first day of my Live Below the Line challenge for Opportunity, where I eat and drink for $1.50 a day for five days. Live Below the Line is a campaign that raises awareness about the 1.4 billion people who live below Read more…
