Global Advocacy and Communications

Burness's Global Health and Science team offers nonprofits around the world an array of strategic communications services designed to promote understanding and advocacy for issues related to global health, agriculture, climate change, agriforestry, and global development. Our results-oriented approach to media relations yields regular global news placements. Our multi-lingual staff have contacts with leading journalists and opinion page editors at media outlets around the world.

We regularly organize and staff deskside media tours, media training workshops, news conferences, background media briefings, and media relations operations for major conferences.

Markets we've worked in include:

  • Arusha, Tanzania
  • Abuja, Nigeria
  • Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Beijing, China
  • Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Frankfurt, Germany
  • Geneva, Switzerland
  • Hanoi, Vietnam
  • Hong Kong, China
  • Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Kyoto, Japan
  • London, United Kingdom
  • Lyon, France
  • Manila, Philippines
  • Mexico City, Mexico
  • Nairobi, Kenya
  • Oslo, Norway
  • Ottawa and Montreal, Canada
  • Paris, France
  • Santiago, Chile
  • São Paulo, Brazil
  • Stockholm, Sweden

A new roadmap for agricultural research

by Megan Dold on Tue, 04/13/2010 - 11:03am

 “Today, 1.4 billion people around the world live in extreme poverty.  Many of them are women and children.  Most of them are farmers.”

That’s World Bank President Robert Zoellick in a video address two weeks ago to the Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD), an unprecedented gathering in Montpellier, France that brought together researchers, policymakers, farmers, donors, and members of civil society from every region of the world. 

The goal?  Create a new framework for getting cutting-edge agricultural research to the farmers who need it to feed themselves, their families and their countries.  

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