Listeners point out that there’s more to feeding the world than growing more food. To which we say: Stay tuned.
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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Food for 9 Billion launches today
Drumroll, please: The first two features in our yearlong series air today on American Public Media’s Marketplace.
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The scientific challenge
This story also appeared on America Public Media’s Marketplace. TRANSCRIPT Kai Ryssdal: There are now, the United Nations tells us, seven billion people on the planet. Sooner rather than later — another 30, 35 years or so — there’s going to be more than nine billion. That’s a whole lot of mouths to feed. So […]