International Conservation & Development

Fellow Story

Reducing seasonal hunger, food insecurity

Food justice is one of many sustainability dilemmas we will encounter in this century, and Chris Bacon believes that only through understanding and then collective action can we work to create a more ecologically and economically sustainable as well as socially just world.
August 27, 2012
Fellow Story

Scott-Railton quoted on Bloomberg on pro-regime hackers' malware in Libya and Syria

“We’re moving to a new place with surveillance,” says John Scott-Railton, a doctoral student at the University of California Los Angeles’ Luskin School of Public Affairs who has helped track Trojans in Libya and Syria, where he says pro- regime hackers cobbled together malware attacks from free or inexpensive products available online. He also coordinated research for this study, passing the first malware samples from Bloomberg to Marquis-Boire.
August 9, 2012
Fellow Story

Orosz awarded Echoing Green Fellowship

Matt Orosz is an inventor and entrepreneur focused on overcoming the challenges to building sustainable energy infrastructure in underserved areas. A former Peace Corps volunteer in Lesotho, Matt's experience living without electricity or running water catalyzed his study of engineering and the foundation of STG International, an organization that works to build capacity for solar micro-utilities. Read the full story
July 27, 2012
Fellow Story

UCS alleges misconduct by Monsanto in discrediting Quist's maize research

Below in quotations are the allegations, taken in verbatim from the report, which can be accessed in full here.
July 20, 2012
Fellow Story

Vorhees on assessing health risks in Nigeria

"I've worked on contaminated sites for more than 20 years and I've never seen anything on the scale that I saw in Nigeria," said Donna Vorhees, an adjunct assistant professor of environmental health at BUSPH. "They're not just exposed – these people are actually living in petroleum." Read the full story
July 19, 2012
Foundation News

Innovation in Pre-listing Species Conservation: Conservation Banking for Candidate Species (Switzer Foundation Webinar Series)

The World Resources Institute (WRI) and Advanced Conservation Strategies (ACS) have been working to develop a pilot conservation marketplace for the gopher tortoise in its non-federally-listed range of the Southeast United States. The pilot...
July 18, 2012
Fellow Story

Morris interviewed on Al Jazeera regarding Rio+20

"There is regulation in market systems all over the place. There is no such thing as [a] free market in existence in the world because government is an actor in our markets. Its job is to regulate .... Markets can work in concert with public policy." - Daniel Morris, a fellow at Resources for the Future Watch the program
July 9, 2012
Fellow Story

Krupnik speaks at workshop to promote conservation agriculture in Bangladesh

Speakers at a workshop said here on Friday that substantial and sustainable promotion of conservation agriculture is very vital for making the soil health fit for boosting crop production to ensure food security of the nation. Read the full story
July 4, 2012
Fellow Story

Chile's Salmon Aquaculture Industry

2011 Switzer Fellow Kelsey Jacobsen's research focuses on Chile's Salmon Aquaculture Industry. Hear how she is working with local governments to ensure safe aquaculture practices for years to come.
July 3, 2012
Fellow Story

Mersha on land occupation as a strategy for agrarian reform in South Africa

In South Africa, land occupation is expanding as a strategy for achieving genuine agrarian reform, food sovereignty and climate justice. Since these are all critical issues for people living in cities, land occupations in both urban and rural areas are an important, and often unrecognized, part of global movements. Read the full article
July 3, 2012