Here are a dozen innovations to make the food system more resilient in the face of an increasingly erratic climate.
Jon Miller
Executive producer, Food for 9 Billion
Jonathan Miller is executive director of Homelands Productions, a journalism cooperative specializing in public radio features and documentaries. As a freelance journalist, he has reported from Asia, Latin America, Africa, Europe and the U.S. for NPR, BBC, CBC, American Public Media's Marketplace, Monitor Radio, VOA, Radio Netherlands and Radio Deutsche Welle. He also has written for The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, Parents, American Way, The Christian Science Monitor and many other publications. For 13 years, he lived and worked in the Philippines and Peru.
Jon is currently serving as executive producer of "Food for 9 Billion," a collaborative project of Homelands Productions, the Center for Investigative Reporting, American Public Media's Marketplace, PRI's The World, and PBS NewsHour. He was executive producer of Homelands' award-winning "WORKING" project profiling workers in the global economy (2007-09) and the "Worlds of Difference" series about the responses of traditional societies to rapid cultural change (2002-05).
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More companies weigh in on global food challenge
Cargill’s is the latest voice in a multinational chorus calling for big-business-friendly food and farm policies.
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Five food blogs we’re following
Where to get your daily helping of news from the feeding-the-world front.
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U.S. drought may hit world’s poor the hardest
Lower corn and soy yields could mean dangerously high food prices in Africa and Asia.
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6 cool food and water infographics
There’s something about a searing hot summer day that leads a guy to kick off his shoes, turn on his fan and head to the Internet in search of cool graphics about the importance of water in the global food system.
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With new food security rankings, DuPont stirs the statistical pot
A food industry giant’s Global Food Security Index adds nutrition, food safety and public policy to the mix.
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Hunger-fighting efforts stall as world gains on other goals
Progress has been impressive on the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals, but hunger rates remain stubbornly high.
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Farming innovators look beyond high yields
To feed a growing population, the world will have to produce more food. But that’s only part of the story. Meet the winners of the 2012 Innovation Challenges.
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In New York and Aspen, world food challenge comes to the table
Tomorrow is a big day for public confabulation about feeding a world with 9 billion people in it, with high-profile events in Aspen, Colo., and New York.
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The dirt on dirt: It’s the microbes, baby!
As a listen of American Public Media’s Marketplace points out, one of the keys to sustainable farming is healthy, living soil.