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Laurie Goering

Title Editor
Organization AlertNet Climate, Thomson Rueters Foundation

Laurie Goering edits AlertNet Climate, the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s daily news website on the humanitarian and development impacts of climate change.

Prior to coming to AlertNet in 2009, she worked as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune newspaper based in New Delhi, Kuwait, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro, Havana, Mexico City, and London.E

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Posts By Laurie Goering

Investing in Food for Africa – And the Rest of Us

May 17, 2012 / Laurie Goering

What the right kind of long-term investment in African agriculture looks like remains a matter of some debate.

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Solutions for a Hungry World

May 03, 2012 / Laurie Goering

By 2050, the planet will need at least 70 percent more food than it does today, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization predicts.

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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