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2. http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2012/11/200353.htm.
3. World Development Report 2011: Conflict, Security, and Development (Washington, DC: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank, 2011), http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDRS/Resources/WDR2011_Full_Text.pdf.
4. http://www.grain.org/article/entries/128-the-soils-of-war; http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/09/business/global/09raisins.html?pagewanted=all.
Story 33: Opening What Once Was Cerrado
1. Analysis by the Institute on the Environment—a collaboration between the University of Minnesota’s Global Landscapes Initiative (IonE) and McGill University’s Land Use and the Global Environment Lab—using EarthStat data.
2. By comparison, in 2012 the US Department of Agriculture had $2.53 billion in discretionary funds for agricultural research, education, and extension programs. See http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R40819.pdf.
Story 34: Chocolate-Covered Opportunities
1. http://ilpil.asu.edu/research/qualityproductivity-projects/buffett-foundation-project/.
Story 36: Buy Local!
1. National Climatic Data Center, http://www.hurricanescience.org/society/impacts/environmentalimpacts/terrestrialimpacts.
2. As the world’s largest humanitarian agency, WFP is a major buyer of staple food. In 2011 WFP bought US$1.1 billion worth of food—more than 70 percent of this in developing countries. See http://www.wfp.org/purchase-progress.
3. http://www.wfp.org/stories/ahora-la-que-pone-los-precios-soy-yo.
4. http://www.wfp.org/eds-centre/speeches/remarks-ertharin-cousin-executive-director-un-world-food-programme-committee-wor.
Story 37: Hungry for Data
1. United States Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2006–2010, http://www.census.gov/acs/www/; Craig Gundersen, Elaine Waxman, Emily Engelhard, Theresa Del Vecchio, Amy Satoh, et al., “Map the Meal Gap: Child Food Insecurity 2012” (Chicago: Feeding America, 2012), http://feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/hunger-studies/map-the-meal-gap/~/media/Files/a-map-2010/2010-MMG-Child-Executive-Summary-FINAL.ashx.
2. Based on the market value of agricultural products sold from the 2007 USDA Census of Agriculture; Gundersen et al., “Map the Meal Gap 2012.”
3. Gail Wadsworth and Lisa Kresge, “Hunger in the Fields,” Civil Eats, September 26, 2011, http://civileats.com/2011/09/26/hunger-in-the-fields.
Story 38: The Power of a Piece of Paper
1. http://www.landesa.org/infographic-land-rights-matter.
Story 39: Farmer of the Future
1. http://www.agriculture.com/family/women-in-agriculture/farm-families/this-l-is-her-l_339-ar26202.
Story 40: A New Approach to Governance
1. http://www.nepad.org/foodsecurity/agriculture/about.
2. http://www.tonyblairoffice.org/speeches/entry/a-new-approach-to-a-new-africa.
Index
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
abduction, 2
Aceh, Sumatra, 214, 216
Accion USA, 380–81
Acellam, Caesar, 1, 2–3, 4
addictions, 91
A. E. Staley corn processing plant, 90
Affleck, Ben, 347
Afghanistan, 17, 52, 63, 126, 128, 129, 287–88, 303, 317–20, 318, 325, 365
drugs in, 285, 286–87
Africa, 14, 16, 35n, 39, 40–41, 135–36, 183–85, 194, 199, 202–12, 228, 331–32
agricultural subsidies and, 274
agriculture imports of, 201
domestic violence, 302
food insecurity in, 15, 178, 183–85
hunger in, 14
infrastructure in, 40
resource wealth of, 107
soil in, 178
Africa Governance Initiative (AGI), 402, 406–8
African Agricultural Capital fund, 136
Africa Summit, 404–5
agribusiness, 14
agricultural colleges, 36
Agricultural Trade Development Assistance Act, 225
agriculture, see farming
Agriculture Department, US (USDA), 36, 225, 233, 273, 276, 277, 280, 281–82, 287
Agriculture for Nutrition (A4N), 383–87
agroforestry, 228
aid, 163
for agricultural development, 317–26
conflict and, 317–26
inefficiencies in, 322
see also food aid
AIDS, 170
Akosombo Dam, 253
alcoholism, 151
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), 137
Amazon, 63n
Amazon rain forest, 60, 265, 335
ambar rice, 359
American Midwest, 35n
Amponsah, Kwadwo, 360–61
anaerobic bacteria, 182
Andreas, Dwayne, 54–55, 58, 63
Andreas, Marty, 54–55, 59
Angola, 18–19, 165–74, 199, 246, 271, 338
animals, endangered, 12, 202
Anna, 121–23, 122
Appalachia, 86
Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM), 54–55, 58–59, 63, 64, 82–83, 225, 276, 342
Argentina, 35n, 62–63, 192
Arizona, 14, 184, 377
Arizona State University, 346
Armenia, 119–25, 122
Armstrong, Neil, 24
Asia, 14, 17, 135
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, 216
Augusta, 167–68, 167
Australia, 35n
automation, 37
Avery, Dennis, 12
Azerbaijan, 120
Aztecs, 190
Baber, Lynn, 58
baboons, 159
“Back in the U.S.S.R.,” 22
Baja Peninsula, 182
Bamiyan Valley, Afghanistan, 283–97, 284
bananas, 136, 154
Banbuk, 113
Bangladesh, 69, 230n
baobab tree, 75
Barefoot Foundation, 142–46
Barrett, Christopher, 229–30
Bashir, Omar Hassan al-, 236
bauxite, 352
Bayesian networks, 322–23
beans, 6, 99, 103, 382
Beatles, 22
Beaumont, David, 147–52, 150
Belgium, 370
Belize, 341
belt of misery, 114
Benin, 254, 338
Berkshire Hathaway, 20, 48, 64, 66, 68
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, 66
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 69, 136–37, 370
biodiversity, 12, 55, 59, 60
Black Sea, 35n
Blair, Tony, 16, 400–406, 401, 408
Blantyre, Mali, 74
Blood Diamond, 105–6
Bloomington, Ill., 83
Boa, Kofi, 351–52, 353, 354, 354, 355–56, 357, 358, 359–61
Bob, 90, 124
body types, 96–97
bones, weakened from poor nutrition, 102
Bono, 65–66, 146
Borlaug, Julie, 177
Borlaug, Norman, 15, 175–85, 180, 320
Borneo, 128
Bosnia, 27
Botswana, 259–62, 261, 268, 269, 271
Bottom Billion, The: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Collier), 5
Boure, Mali, 113
Boxing Day tsunami, 213–21, 216, 285
Brazil, 15, 62–63, 192, 196, 330–31, 332–37
Brezhnev, Leonid, 22
Brinkley, Paul, 130
broadcasting seed, 270
Brown Revolution, 184–85, 196
Buddhists, 284
Buffalo Evening News, 49
Buffett, Devon, xiii, 28, 48, 49–52, 55, 56, 59, 327
Buffett, Howard Graham, 67
on ADM board, 54–55, 58–59
childhood of, xi, 19–21
construction business of, 30–32
in Czechoslovakia, 22–27, 26, 298, 299
on Douglas Co
unty Board of Commissioners, 56–58
farming loved by, xii, 10–12, 11, 20, 50, 56
farm rented by, 29
Mexican trip of, 31–33
Buffett, Howard Graham, photography of, 52–53, 55, 93, 97, 104, 107–8, 114
of Acellam, 2–3, 4
of agriculture, 50–51
of children in chains, 45–48, 47
in Niger, 96
Buffett, Howard H., xi, xii, 19, 56
Buffett, Howard W. (HWB), 17, 34–35, 50, 57, 67, 105, 122, 124, 126–31, 177n, 201, 388–99, 409–11
in Afghanistan, 283–97
CSP entered into by, 281–82
in Thailand after tsunami, 213–21
on violence, 317–26
Buffett, Peter, xi, 19, 21, 22, 218, 300
foundation of, 13, 67, 68, 69
Buffett, Susie, xi, 19, 20, 22, 126
foundation of, 13, 67, 68, 69
Buffett, Susie, Sr., xi, xii, xiv, 19, 27, 67
on Charlie Rose show, 65, 67, 70
concern for others, xiii, 21, 66, 71
foundation of, 13
Ghana trip of, 305, 306
Howard’s Foundation funded by, 12, 67, 68
and Howard’s visit to Czechoslovakia, 22–23
illness and death of, 13, 65, 67–68
Mexican trip of, 298
wealth of, 68
Buffett, Warren, xi–xiv, 30, 65
agricultural investment and, 318–20
farm rented to son by, 29, 32–34
Howard’s foundation funded by, 12, 67
Howard’s political career and, 56, 57, 58
and Howard’s visit to Czechoslovakia, 22–23, 27
occupation of, 20–21
ovarian lottery, discussion of, xiv, 66, 69–70
philanthropy views of, 13, 68–69
politics of, 56
taxes, 274
as uninterested in luxury, 70–71
on value of mistakes, 17
Burkina Faso, 139, 189, 254, 403
Burpee, Gaye, 387
Burundi, 145, 307
Bush, George W., 237
buy local movement, 37
cacao trees, 348, 352
calcium, 130
California, 280
California, University of, at Berkeley, 217
Cambodia, 277
camel trains, 113
Cameroon, 254, 262
Canada, 231, 332
Canadian International Development Agency, 372
capacity building, 246
carbohydrates, 130
carbon, 60
carbon dynamics, 357
carbon emissions, 358
cardiovascular disease, 101, 102
CARE, 186, 226, 228–31, 241, 300
CARE USA, 230
Carla, 114, 115
Carter, Jimmy, 62–63
cassava, 75
CAT 955K front-end track loader, 31–33, 33
catalytic funding, 364
Caterpillar, 31, 83
Catholic Relief Services (CRS), 291, 345, 383, 385–87, 392
Catlin soil type, 188
Cavanaugh, John, 235
Center for No-Till Agriculture, 360
Central African Republic (CAR), 2–3, 154, 236
Central America, 5–6, 54, 59, 103, 148, 178, 199, 247, 250, 252, 365, 370
Centro Independiente de Trabajadores Agricolas (CITA), 345–46, 346
Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT), 179–84, 180
Chad, 52, 254, 277
charity, as viewed in Africa, 210–11
Charles, 44–47
Chattar Plain, Pakistan, 223–25
cheetahs, 202, 203–4, 203, 209, 262
Chewa tribe, 77
Chicano Awareness Head Start Program, 66
children:
in chains, 45–46, 47, 52
chronic malnutrition in, 101, 178–79
hunger in Nigeria, 95–98
US, hunger of, 91
vitamin A deficiency in, 100–101
child soldiers, 1, 2, 13, 16, 105–11
Chile, 35n
China, 64, 315
chitenjes, 73
chocolate, 340–42, 348
cholera, 160, 170
chromium, 108
Ciudad Obregón, 179, 182
civil rights, 56
civil wars, 5
climate change, 55
Clinton, Hillary, 300–301, 323–24
Clinton Foundation, 77
CNN, 76
Coca-Cola Enterprises, 64
cocoa, 286, 342, 348–50, 349, 361
coffee, 154, 365
Cold War, 165–66
Collier, Paul, 5
Colombia, 142–46
Commander Blood, 108
commercial farmers, 40
commodity prices, 323, 348
compost, 357
ConAgra Foods, 64
concentration camp survivors, 96–97
conflict, 359, 405
aid and, 317–26
Congress, US, 227
conservation, 13
conservation farming, 191–92, 394–95
Conservation International, 335
Conservation Stewardship Program, 281–82, 398
contract farmers, 197–98
controlled traffic, 390
Convention on Biological Diversity, 55
cooperatives, 292
corn, 6, 36, 37, 38, 60, 81, 99–100, 123, 131, 134, 136, 149, 151, 189, 195, 263, 267, 276, 309, 311–12, 336, 393
corporations, 304
Corpus Christi, Tex., 374–76
corruption, 6, 12, 81, 184, 217, 236, 321
cotton, 336
Coulson Lab, 260
cover crops, 38, 62, 270, 282, 311, 313, 383
credit, 371
Croatians, 27
crop insurance, 274, 371
crop rotation, 38, 356
crops, 288
Crops Research Institute, 353
Cuba, 165
Czechoslovakia, 22–27, 26, 298, 299
D’Aiuto, Chris, 195
Daly, Maura, 380
dam construction, 253–56
Darfur, 21n, 232, 236, 237
data, 388–99
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (Moyo), 140
Decatur, Ill., 37, 59, 82–91, 85, 124, 248, 374
“Decatur: Down But Not Out!,” 91
Defense Department, US, 130, 287, 297
de Merode, Emmanuel, 154–61, 155, 163
democracy, 121
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), 154, 156, 159–61, 236, 307, 340, 347–50, 348, 358, 405
developmental disorders, 101
DeVries, Joe, 132–41, 135, 163, 296, 406
diabetes, 102
diamonds, 52, 105–7, 111, 352
Diana, Princess of Wales, 166
diarrhea, 169
Diepdrift, 206
Diocesan Caritas, 383
dirt, 187–88
Disaster Tracking Recovery Assistance Center (D-TRAC), 218–19
disk harrowing, 32–33
Disney World, 132
Dobo, Macaire, 358–59
Dom, 74
domestic violence, 299–300, 302, 306–7
Douglas, 74, 76, 77
drainage problems, 190
drip irrigation, 148, 197
drought, 38, 102, 176, 275, 365–66
dumps, 116
Duncan, Marcia, 48
Duron, Janine, 345
Dust Bowl, 276
earthquake, in Pakistan, 222–25
Earth Summit, 55
East Africa, 214, 247, 250, 252
Easter Island, 190
Eastern Congo Initiative, 347
edema, 96
Educampo Project, 370–71
education, 144, 301, 321, 324
Education Concerns for Hunger Organization (ECHO), 194, 195
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Egypt, 21n, 236–37
Elburn soil type, 188
electricity, 294, 408
elephants, 259, 262–72, 263, 265
El Mahdi, Sarah, 21–22
El Salvador, 61–62, 61, 70, 364–65, 370
emaciation, 96–97
Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria (EMBRAPA), 332–33, 335, 336, 337–38
endangered animals, 12
environmentalists, 64
Environmental Protection Agency, 279
Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), 280
Erin, 50
erosion, 60
Essex Corporation, 55–56
ethanol, 58
Ethiopia, 38–42, 70, 115, 120, 121, 139, 199, 200, 206, 229, 231, 236, 295, 344, 368, 403
European Union, 157
Eva Longoria Foundation, 380
Everett, 87, 87
exchange students, 21–27
Exon, J. James, 57
Fall Line Capital, 396
famine, 18–19, 38, 96–97, 102, 169–70
farm associations, 63, 182–83
Farm Bill (2008), 281
farming:
conservation, 191–92
in developing world, 13–15
diversity of, 36–38
forty chances at, 10–12
green, 280–82
no-tillage, 192, 192, 360–61, 398
policy on, 35
research and development for, 332
farming subsidies, 273–82
Feeding America, 376, 379–80
fertility belts, 35, 336–37
fertilizer, 40, 41, 140, 176, 182–83, 211, 288, 316, 338, 357
loans of, 344
transportation of, 178
fertilizers, 312
field sheds, 388–89
fines and fences, 266
fires, 351–61
Fish and Wildlife Service, US, 157
Flanagan soil type, 188