Long dismissed as anti-modern or romantic, agroecology’s concept of farming based on ecological principles is catching on.
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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Just like that, statistician adds a billion to world population
In a new TED Talk, Hans Rosling says a world population of 10 billion is inevitable. Is it?
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Four cool media projects about food and farming
Radio, television and online projects link the food we eat to the people who who produce it.
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Aid in Africa: All hands on deck or passing the buck?
Events of the last few days have rekindled debate about the role of big business in solving humanity’s thorniest problems.
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High-level food meeting to highlight corporate plans for Africa
Big business sees big profits in the growing demand for food over the coming decades, and African governments are rolling out the welcome mat.
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Small farmers hold key to averting Indian water crisis
Fast-growing India could face severe water shortages by as early as 2030. A grassroots movement looks to reverse the trend.
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Grassroots movement tackles India water crisis
This story also ran on American Public Media’s Marketplace. TRANSCRIPT: The average human drinks a couple of quarts of water every day. But it takes more than 1,000 times that much to produce a day’s worth of food. Unfortunately, the thirst for irrigation water is outstripping supply in many parts of the world. The situation […]
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World Water Day sounds alarm on water, food supply
Today is World Water Day, when the U.N. beats its drums about one of the world’s most threatened resources. This year’s theme is “Water and Food Security.”
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Are we locked into a population of 9 billion?
A population scholar lauds “Food for 9 Billion” for linking the need for family planning to the challenge of feeding the world.
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Initiative seeks to strengthen farming-conservation link
A new initiative looks at farms as parts of complex systems that provide more than food and income.