Danielle Nierenberg

Who is Danielle Nierenberg?

Danielle J. Nierenberg is an American activist, author and journalist. She is known for her work addressing sustainable agriculture, on behalf of The Guardian and the Huffington Post. and has been extensively cited and published in The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, USA Today and The China Daily. She is an adviser to Citizen Effect, and founded Nourishing the Planet while working at the Worldwatch Institute. In 2013, Nierenberg co-founded Food Tank: The Food Think Tank with Ellen Gustafson.

Nierenberg has authored and contributed to several reports and books, including Correcting Gender Myopia: Gender Equity, Women's Welfare, and the Environment, Happier Meals: Rethinking the Global Meat Industry, State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet, Eating Planet 2012, Food and Agriculture: The Future of Sustainability.