Promoting Community Health Workers (CHWs)

Summer Plans

This summer Agdes will be working for CRS in their "5 Skill Program." These are the skill CRS has identified as essential to become more viable farmers and link more effectively to farmers.



The skills include:



How to manage themselves as a group (developing and implementing a common vision, democratic decision-making, conflict resolution, etc.)


Savings and financial skills (crucial for

TED Talks about Food and Nutrition

Our friends from the FoodTank have compiled an excellent list of TED talks that touch on the issue of agriculture, food and nutrition. Watch and listen: 

1. Roger Thurow: The Hungry Farmer - My Moment of Great DisruptionThurow, author of The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change, explains the profound "disease of the soul" that hunger represents, and

Development Boy - A Parody Produced by Some Classmates

2012 Global Food Policy Report

Save the Bees

Check out the NYTimes reports on the bee crisis and its excellent editorial demanding action. While many questions remained unanswered,  I'm glad that the times, CBS, and others are covering the story and pressuring officials to respond. The culprit, so far, seems hard to identify. In the UK, studies have liked the bee crisis to increased use of a pesticide called neonicotinoids. Europe's Food

Al Jazeera's Inside Story on the Politics of Global Food Security