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INN member the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) is collaborating with American Public Media's Marketplace, PBS NEWSHOUR and Homelands Productions on a multi-platform media project, titled "Food for 9 Billion."
The project "examines the challenge of feeding the world at a time of growing demand, changing diets, rising food and energy prices, shrinking land and water resources and accelerating climate change," according to a statement.
"Food for 9 Billion" offers some of the most extensive coverage of global food issues ever offered in public media. CIR's Sharon Tiller said:
"Feeding the world will take so much more than producing more food. The stories we produce across multiple platforms--including television, radio, animation, and interactive features--will reveal how factors as diverse as population, climate, politics and global trade all interact, allowing us to create a three-dimensional portrait of the monumental challenge we face.”
The project was funded in part by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the New Venture Fund and the Graham Foundation. The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the National Science Foundation and the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University also donated to fund "Food for 9 Billion."
CIR's first video in the project, "Phillipines: Turning the population tide," is up now. Visit foodfor9billion.org to learn more.
