Jonathan Rosen

2 months ago | thefp.com | Charles Lane |Jonathan Rosen

On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced that he has ordered his administration to cease production of the penny. The argument for the move seems straightforward enough. It costs more than a penny to make a penny (3.7 cents, according to the U.S. Mint). Given inflation and the move to digital payments, ditching the coin is just common cents, right? Not necessarily.

Dec 22, 2024 | robkhenderson.com | Robert Greene |Jonathan Haidt |Jonathan Rosen |Rob Henderson

You’ll have to open this post in a separate tab, as Substack tells me this post is too long for email. Nearly five years have passed since I launched this newsletter in January of 2020. As I mentioned in this Substack Grow interview, back then it was hosted on MailChimp before I moved it over to Substack in April of 2022. After the first year, it accrued about 7 thousand subscribers. After two years, there were 14 thousand subscribers. By the end of year three, there were 27 thousand.

Oct 15, 2024 | geneticliteracyproject.org | Jonathan Rosen

Jonathan Rosen | MIT Technology Review | October 15, 2024 Credit: The Borgen Project In Africa, like anywhere, hunger is driven by many interwoven factors, not all of which are a consequence of farming practices. Increasingly, though, policymakers on the continent are casting a critical eye toward the types of crops in farmers’ plots, especially the globally dominant and climate-vulnerable grains like rice, wheat, and above all, maize. Africa’s indigenous crops are often more nutritious and...

Oct 14, 2024 | technologyreview.com | Jonathan Rosen

Change, though, was afoot: In 2021, with hunger on the rise, the African Union explicitly called for “intentional investments towards increased productivity and production in traditional and indigenous crops.” It found a sympathetic ear in Cary Fowler, a longtime biodiversity advocate who was appointed US special envoy for global food security by President Joe Biden in 2022.

Oct 14, 2024 | flipboard.com | Jonathan Rosen

Africa fights rising hunger by looking to foods of the pastThe first time the rains failed, the farmers of Kanaani were prepared for it. It was April of 2021, and as climate change had made the weather …