by josiahmwd | Oct 18, 2019 | Events, International
This week, the world recognized key problems that are impacting communities everywhere. World Food Day and International Day for the Eradication of Poverty are, in our opinion, inextricably linked. World Food Day The month of October brings with it a harvest season in...
by josiahmwd | Aug 29, 2019 | International, Media
Let’s say you were tasked with the job of lifting 100 million people out of poverty over the next 10 years. What would you do? Who would you talk to? What system, method, technology, tools would you use to get the job done? When we look at the SDGs (Sustainable...
by josiahmwd | Nov 24, 2018 | International
This month, World Food Bank CEO Richard Lackey and GFE Investor Justin Culver visited Thakara-Nithi County in Kenya, where they were heartily welcomed and given a personal tour of local food systems and producers by County Governor Muthomi Njuki. Governor Njuki is a...
by josiahmwd | Oct 17, 2018 | International
Today is End Poverty Day, and we invite our readers to consider how improving the world’s food systems can end both hunger and poverty. In Sub-Saharan Africa, 80 percent of the region’s food is produced by smallholder, or family, farmers, the majority of...
by josiahmwd | Oct 11, 2018 | International
A few weeks ago, our friends at The Rockefeller Foundation kicked off their #SolvableSDG campaign to mark the end of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly. The goal of this campaign was to poll the Rockefeller community and ask them to vote for the...
by josiahmwd | Sep 23, 2018 | International
Fresh off the heels of our first harvest this year, our team is back at it this week planting seeds for our second season. We began planting this week and will continue into next week. All of our seeds were inoculated with rhizobium and then planted within 6 hours of...
