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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…
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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
What We’re Reading: Roger Thurow Interview on Hunger, Microfinance and More
On Wednesdays, we highlight an article, book or blog in our “What We’re Reading” series. We feature works that are noteworthy, inspiring, educational or relevant to the microfinance work we do at Opportunity. We welcome your comments in the comment field below–-tell us what you’re reading, or respond to the piece we’ve highlighted. The following Read more…
Tagged 2010 fall microfinance conference, Africa, Agricultural finance, Banker to the Poor, Changing the Face of Hunger, Chicago, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Ending Hunger, Ending Poverty, Enough, Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, Financial services, Global Agriculture and Food Policy, Global Poverty, Grameen Bank, Green Revolution, Hunger, Interview, Loans, Malawi, MFI, Microfinance, Muhammad Yunus, OIBM, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Bank of Malawi, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Opportunity Malawi, pulitzer prize, Roger Thurow, sub-Saharan Africa, The Bible, Tony Hall, Washington D.C.
Global Food for Thought Blog: “Extending the Reach” by Roger Thurow
The following post by Roger Thurow, “Extending the Reach,” was published on the Global Food for Thought blog on March 4, 2011 as part of Thurow’s Outrage & Inspire series. Thurow is Senior Fellow for Global Agriculture & Food Policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting, and co-author of Read more…
Tagged 2010 fall microfinance conference, Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Clients, Community, Ending Poverty, Enough, Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, Feed the Future Guide, Financial services, Global Food for Thought blog, Global Poverty, Kenya, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Poverty, pulitzer prize, Roger Thurow, Rwanda, Smallholder farmer, Tom Vilsack, US Department of Agriculture, USAID, USDA
What We’re Reading: 3 Writers Featured at our Fall Conference
Every Wednesday, we highlight an article, book or a blog in our “What We’re Reading” series. We feature works that are noteworthy, inspiring, educational or relevant to the work we do at Opportunity. We welcome your comments in the comment field below–tell us what you’re reading, or respond to the piece we’ve highlighted. The following Read more…
Tagged 2010 fall microfinance conference, Blog, Ending Poverty, Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, fall microfinance conference, Financial services, Half the Sky, knight kiplinger, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, OptINnow, Poverty, Roger Thurow, Sheryl WuDunn, Social Media
Watch It Live: The 2010 Fall Microfinance Conference
If you can’t be with us this week for the 2010 Fall Microfinance Conference on Friday, Oct. 8-Saturday, Oct. 9 in Washington, D.C., you don’t have to miss out. We’ll be streaming live video from each of our four plenary sessions at the conference. Tune in to watch live video of speakers, including: Sheryl WuDunn, Pulitzer Prize Read more…
Tagged 2010 fall microfinance conference, claudia kennedy, Conference, Ending Poverty, Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, fall microfinance conference, Financial services, knight kiplinger, Maria Otero, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, OptINnow, Roger Thurow, tamara cook, Technology, Tony Hall
What We’re Reading: Roger Thurow Encourages Rwandan Farmers to “Keep Up the Momentum”
This week, Roger Thurow, Senior Fellow on Global Agriculture and Food Policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, posted a blog reporting on an unusual situation for farmers in Kirehe, Rwanda — an agricultural surplus. Thurow examines the situation, interviewing Agnes Kalibata, Rwanda’s minister of agriculture, and discusses the positive impact of USAID’s Feed Read more…
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Conference, Enough, Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, Feed the Future Guide, Financial services, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Microfinance Conference, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Poverty, Roger Thurow, Rwanda, Savings, Technology, Training, USAID
