Chipotle gone local

Interesting article about the fast food chain Chipotle and how it has started to buy locally raised pork. A measure that presents an promising opportunity to farmers that have seek alternative farming methods. For decades, family-own restaurants and cafes have purchased some of their products from local farmers, adopting their menus to the local growing season. But for a national fast food chain

The Financial Times: Expensive tastes: Rising costs force food up the political agenda

By Javier Blas and Jenny WigginsMarch 17 2008permanent LINKJohn Beddington, Britain's chief scientific adviser, had been in hisjob for just two months when he outlined an unnerving scenario for hisnew employers. The world, he argued earlier this month, faced anenormous problem - one on a par with climate change - thatpolicymakers were nonetheless ignoring: food security.To keep reading follow

play to get water: neat idea

New link

For those of you considering a career in International Development, this website will be a good resource: http://www.studying-development.org/

Idealist; Nonprofit Career Fair

Hello there,Just to let you know about a series of career fairs Idealist.org will be organizing. The one in Washington will be on April 2nd at G.W campus. for more info follow this link

Agriculture in Dogon Country

Hello readers our there.It has really been a long time since my last post and I'm not sure who or what to blame. I've come to realize that the nature of this blog fluctuates in relationship to the need I feel for sharing experience with you, and lately I've been pretty selfish.But not anymore, I just came back from a very exciting trip to West Africa and had the opportunity to visit Dogon Country

WP Article on working abroad

Laying the Groundwork for Overseas WorkNearly Every Field Is InternationalBy Lily WhitemanSpecial to The Washington Post. Sunday, March 9, 2008; K01Michael Eschleman, the Peace Corps' country director for Paraguay, remembers discussing the guerrilla wars and revolutions of Latin America back in college."We said things like, 'The U.S. should do this' . . . or 'The campesinos in El Salvador should