Media and Videos

Media Coverage and Outreach:

• The Conversation: How an unexpected observation, a 10th-century recipe and an explorer’s encounter with a cabbage thief upend what we know about collard greens’ journey to the American South. By Bronwen Powell and Abderrahim Ouarghidi, March 13, 2025

• Our project in Penn State News: Choctaw historian to speak on Indigenous gardens at The Arboretum at Penn State, September 24, 2024

• One of my classes in Penn State News: Feeding a community: How one student is turning food waste into donated meals, September 25, 2024

• Just Rural Transitions Secretariat, Meridian Institute: Meet the women working for a just rural transition, March 7, 2023

• Penn State News: Researchers find direct links between deforestation and reduced dietary quality, By Francisco Tutella, March 14, 2022

• JStore Daily: Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities, By: Olivia Box, February 6, 2022

• Medical News, Agroecology has boosted the variety of foods consumed by children, Emily Henderson, June 11, 2021

• A4NH / CGIAR News: Contribution of forests, trees and agroforestry to sustainable food security and nutrition in a time of crisis, by Mulia Nurhasan, Stepha McMullin, and Amy Ickowitz, July 7, 2020.

• Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative: It’s all connected: our digest of GLF Bonn 2020, June 10, 2020.

• CIFOR Video: Expansion of oil palm plantations into forests appears to be changing local diets in Indonesia, Oct 15, 2018

• Penn State News: Researcher tackling loss of healthy traditional diets in Morocco, By Liam Jackson, July 12, 2018 (republished multiple places)

• Foundation for Agrarian Studies Blog: Forests and Food Security (on the 2017 HLPE report), by Madhura Swaminathan, July 2017.

• Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative: What do forests have to do with food security? A glance at this year’s HLPE Report, July 7, 2017

• Mongabay: Forests provide a nutritional boon to some communities, research shows, By John Cannon, March 2, 2017

• CIFOR Blog: Eat your vegetation, by Catriona Croft-Cusworth, Aug 1, 2016

• A Ouaga: Forêt, nutrition et sécurité alimentaire : rideaux sur un projet exécuté au Burkina et en Ethiopie, by Séni Dabo, Jan 23, 2016

• The Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative Blog: Traditional Markets are an important part of Nutrition-sensitive Landscapes in Morocco. By Bronwen Powell and Abderrahim Ouarghidi, Feb. 2, 2015 

• CIFOR Forest News: Forests and food: Get your facts straight! By Bronwen Powell, Oct 12, 2015

• Scientific American: Food-matters. Seeing The Forest Through The Trees: How Wild Foods May Contribute To Food Security. By Layla Eplett. February 12, 2014

• CIFOR Blog: Quality not quantity: Wild foods give new dimension to Tanzania nutrition woes, By Anna Finke, Oct 16, 2013

• The Guardian, Wild foods: a food security strategy that's hard to swallow? By Caspar van Vark, July 3, 2013

• IRIN News: Wild foods could improve nutrition and food security, by Kenneth Odiwuor, April 10, 2013

• Mongabay: Sustainable non-timber forest products failing to meet conservation promise, By Rhett Butler, June 20, 2012

• Reuters: Indonesia facing crisis over loss of species - scientists. By David Fogarty and Sunanda Creagh, July 20th, 2010 

Videos:

• Cooking Collards in the Draa valley of Morocco, published Aug 2024

• Powell, B. Moving Beyond Calories in FEWS: Taking Aim at Nutrition-Sensitive Landscapes. NSF-sponsored Convergence Accelerator Conference Food Security in Extreme Environments and Food Deserts, May 2021, online (hosted by The University of Texas at El Paso). Video.

• Powell, B. 2021. Evolution of culturally-bound preferences for traditional vegetables in East Africa. All-Africa Summit on Diversifying Food Systems with African Traditional Vegetables to Increase Health, Nutrition and Wealth, Jan 26, 2021, online and Arusha, Tanzania. Video.

• Powell, B. 2020. Wild foods as cultural heritage and cultural ecosystem services in Indigenous Food Systems. The Global Landscape Forum, Bonn, Germany, June 3, 2020. Video.

• CIFOR Video: Expansion of oil palm plantations into forests appears to be changing local diets in Indonesia, Oct 15, 2018

• Penn State News: Researcher tackling loss of healthy traditional diets in Morocco, July 12, 2018. Video.

• Powell, B. 2014. Discussant in "Healthy People, Resilient Systems." IFPRI 2020 conference on Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security, May 15-17, 2014, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Video.

"Fruits and Veggies" by Ivey Hayes