Fred Powledge's articles have appeared in dozens of
publications, including The New Yorker, Life, Audubon, BioScience,
and others. They cover a wide range of interests, beginning with civil rights and broadening
more recently into issues of the environment and agriculture and, most
important, Earth's biological diversity.
A
complete list of his publications and detailed résumé are available upon
request.
In addition, he has served as
a consultant, producing reports and other documents, for numerous organizations
in diverse regions of the world. These include the Center for International Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Colombia, International Potato Center (CIP) in Lima,
International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain (INIBAP) in
Montpelier, France, International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
in Sri Lanka, and International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) in Rome. His work-related
travel has taken him to Latin America, Africa, the Republic of China,
Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, India, and throughout the United States.
He contributed articles on
agriculture and environment to several editions of World Resources, the
biennial reference published by the World Resources Institute.
Powledge did the travel and
research for, wrote, and illustrated Rescuing Earth's Diversity, which
chronicles the work done by winners of the US$180,000 Biodiversity Leadership
Awards given by the Bay and Paul Foundations. He visited the winners at work in
the field around the world, then wrote and designed the report and guided it
through the printing process.
Powledge has contributed to
the online services provided by BioMedNet. He organized an international debate
on genetically modified foods for BioMedNet's Web-based journal, H.M.S.
Beagle, and wrote the content for it. Powledge also has written daily news offerings for BioMedNet.
He has edited reports on such
subjects as electronic journalism, prostate cancer, and the economic, social,
and biological future of the potato. He collaborated in the research for, and writing and editing of, a NatureServe report on environmental protection at U.S. military bases, Sustaining the Mission.
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