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Biofortified Staple Crops: Empowering Smallholder Farmers to be Food System Change Agents  

January 26, 2021  |  biofortification, food systems, smallholder farmers, smallholders

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Crop Breeding and Soil Management Must Go Hand in Hand

December 5, 2020  |  crop breeding, soil degradation, soil management

Gustavo Teixeira, Module lead at the Breeding Operations and Phenotyping module for CGIAR Excellence in Breeding (EiB) Read More

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Norman Borlaug, FoodShots and the Next 50 Years of Food Systems Transformation

November 3, 2020  |  agriculture, borlaug dialogue, food systems, foodshots

Sara Eckhouse, Executive Director of FoodShot Global and Deepa Thiagarajan, Director of the Global Food Systems and Value Chains Programs at Michigan State University Read More

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Transforming Agriculture Through Smart Farming: From Data Ownership to Open Data

October 15, 2020  |  big data, data ownership, digital agriculture, open data, remote sensing, satellite monitoring, smart farming

Dr. Viola Prifti, Postdoctoral Researcher at HTW Berlin Read More

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A Carbon-Zero Future: Agriculture’s Role in Mitigating Climate Change

October 12, 2020  |  agriculture, carbon capture, carbon markets, carbon sequestration, climate change, Climate-smart agriculture, digital agriculture

Liam Condon, member of the Board of Management for Bayer AG and President of the Crop Science Division Read More

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How Livestock are Improving Women’s Livelihoods in Eastern Africa

September 30, 2020  |  Farm Africa, goats, livestock

Meron Yomcwiny, Project Coordinator at Farm Africa Read More

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