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Four Keys to Feeding ­– and Nourishing – the Planet

March 11, 2021  |  action track 1, food systems

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Empowering Women in Uganda’s Coffee Sector

February 4, 2021

Benjamin Okia, Gender Specialist at Farm Africa Read More

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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

Andrew Natsios, former Administrator of USAID and current Advisory Committee Chair of HarvestPlus Read More

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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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