Friday, October 30, 2015 | Hugh Locke 
REPRINT > by Sarah McColl for Takepart
Moringa company Kuli Kuli wants to help to reforest the island by developing a moringa economy.
Haiti is the most impoverished country in the northern hemisphere, and trees, or the lack thereof, are part of the problem.
Sunday, October 11, 2015 | Hugh Locke 
A tractor on a wheat plantation that used to be virgin Amazon rain forest in Brazil.
Credit: Nacho Doce/Reuters
REPRINT > Jim Robbins for New York Times
LIKE California, much of Brazil is gripped by one of the worst droughts in its history. Huge reservoirs are bone dry and water has been rationed in São Paulo, a megacity of 20 million people; in Rio; and in many other places.
Drought is usually thought of as a natural disaster beyond human control. But as researchers peer deeper into the Earth’s changing bioclimate — the vastly complex global interplay between living organisms and climatic forces — they are better appreciating the crucial role that deforestation plays.
Friday, October 9, 2015 | Hugh Locke 
Filmmaker Gabriel London, SFA co-founders Hugh Locke and Timote Georges, and Timberland’s Margaret
Morey-Reuner in a panel presentation following the premiere of Kombit: The Cooperative at SXSW Eco in
Austin, Texas on October 5th, 2015.
A new documentary film chronicling the efforts of Timberland and the Smallholders Farmers Alliance (SFA) to plant 5 million trees in Haiti had its premiere this week at SXSW Eco 2015 in Austin, Texas.
Kombit: The Cooperative, produced by Found Object films and directed by award-winning filmmaker Gabriel London, tells the unlikely story of how a bootmaking company and a grassroots farmers’ cooperative program in Haiti joined forces in an innovative private/public partnership with the goal of planting 5 million trees in 5 years in a country that now has less than 2% remaining tree cover
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 | Hugh Locke 
Chelsea Clinton, Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation (center) with Matthew Brown, CEO of Fonkoze (left),
Hugh Locke, President and Co-founder of the Smallholder Farmers Alliance and Margaret Morey-Reuner,
Director of Strategic Partnerships & Business Development, Timberland.
Three programs involving the work of the Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA) in Haiti were highlighted by Chelsea Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) taking place in New York this week.
These programs covered a wide range from tree planting to adult literacy training to the new moringa superfood, with the connecting thread being the smallholder farmers of Haiti.
Thursday, August 6, 2015 | Hugh Locke 
Chelsea Clinton in Haiti last week with two women farmers, Mercillie Romeus (left) and MarieWho would have thought the leaves of one very ordinary looking tree would hold the secret for addressing three critical issues in Haiti: improving nutrition, empowering women and expanding agricultural export.
The leaves of the fast-growing moringa tree, which grows throughout Haiti, contain 9 essential amino acids, 27 vitamins and 46 antioxidants, making it one of the most nutrient dense plants on earth. Just one tablespoon of dried moringa leaf powder is the equivalent of a full serving of vegetables plus a multivitamin combined, making it a valuable tool for improving nutrition.
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 | Hugh Locke 
Kuli Kuli, the company that introduced moringa to the US market in food products, has launched a moringa-inspired recipe competition on Instagram.
The top ten recipes that receive the most Instagram likes will be reviewed by internationally-renowned Chef José Andrés and a panel of judges from World Central Kitchen, a nonprofit that uses the power of food to empower communities and strengthen economies. The winner will receive a trip to Washington DC and dinner at Chef José Andrés' new restaurant – China Chilcano.
Sunday, June 28, 2015 | Hugh Locke 
Could moringa leaf powder treat cancer? Dr. Il Lae Jung, with the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute in South Korea, addresses this question in a scientific paper outlining his research into the potential of a new type of water-soluble extract from moringa leaves to treat various types of cancers.
Published last year in the peer-reviewed science site PLOS ONE, the study is titled “Soluble Extract from Moringa oleifera Leaves with a New Anticancer Activity.” While more research is needed, the study suggests moringa could potentially be an ideal anticancer therapeutic candidate specific to cancer cells.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 | Hugh Locke 
A farmer walks with her son during a potato harvest in Huancavelica, southern Peru. Smallholder farmers
produce nearly 70% of all food consumed worldwide. Photograph: Martin Mejia/AP
One-third of the world’s 7.3 billion people are smallholder family farmers who produce nearly 70% of all food consumed worldwide. So why aren’t we doing more to protect them?
REPRINT > by Hugh Locke for The Guardian / May 12, 2015
A third of the world’s 7.3 billion people are smallholder farmers and their families who produce nearly 70% of all food consumed worldwide on 60% of the planet’s arable land. For what sounds like a major part of the global economy, you would expect these farmers to be relatively well off and financially secure. But they aren’t. In fact, they represent the majority of the poorest and hungriest people on earth. How did this happen?
