A child dies every 3 seconds
because of hunger or food related
illness.

Malnutrition is the number one
risk to health worldwide - greater
than AIDS, malaria, and
tuberculosis combined.

Today about 860 million people,
1 of 7 in the world, are hungry.

For most, these are unfathomable
numbers or distant events, while
for some families these are a
devastating reality; one that,
I think, is simply unconscionable.

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This site is dedicated to providing practical information about the sustainable development of people and their enterprises, institutions, and markets. Here you’ll find recent publications and information about this work.

My focus is on furthering ways that help farmers to thrive. This includes both conventional approaches such as supply chain development or marketing knowledge as well as innovations such as organic, fair trade, and eco-standards.

Harnessing business approaches to competitively participate in trade can foster vital development better than aid. Yet, it is also necessary to foster local institutions and community capacity in order to help the poor to fulfill basic human needs and to achieve sustainability at the most critical level: locally.

This balance between local empowerment and global trade is my commitment to the idea that hunger and abject poverty are not inevitable. I hope that you find it useful,