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https://www.thurow1000days.org/ July 14, 2020 1,000 DaysGlobal Food & AgricultureGlobal Food & Agriculture Roger Thurow ...

The Policy Imperative for Public Investment in Agriculture R&D   Executive Summary US public investment in agricultural research in the 20th and 21st centuries has resulted in unprecedented worldwide production of a few staple crops and the improvemen ...

Anonymous's blog A worker collects palm oil fruit inside a palm oil factory in Salak Tinggi, outside Kuala Lumpur, August 4, 2014. REUTERS/Samsul Said AWhere Raises $7 Million to Help Farmers Cope with Climate Change Big-data analytics firm aWhere In ...

Anonymous's blog Next Generation Delegation 2014 Commentary Series By Lauren Pincus, PhD candidate in horticulture & agronomy at the University of California, Davis and  2014 Next Generation Delegate As an agricultural scientist attending The Chi ...

Anonymous's blog By Brent Heard, BS candidate in Economics and Environmental Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and a consultant for the National Academy of Sciences This post originally appeared on Sense & Sustainability. As the world populati ...

Anonymous's blog (A man walks before a rainstorm in Kogelo village, Kenya. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya) Another Milestone Toward Making Cell Phones the Future of Weather Observations Scientists have found that it is possible to monitor global rainfall usin ...

Anonymous's blog REUTERS/Gary Cameron Water 'Thermostat' Could Help Engineer Drought-Resistant Crops Researchers have identified a gene that could help scientists engineer drought-resistant crops. The gene encodes a protein in the cell memb ...

Anonymous's blog Next Generation Delegation 2014 Commentary Series By Sharlene Yang, MPA in International Policy and Management at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and 2014 Next Generation Delegate At The Chicago Council ...

Anonymous's blog By Cydney Gumann, Knowledge Management Specialist, Feed the Future Knowledge-Driven Agricultural Development (KDAD) Project This post originally appeared on Agrilinks. Climate change has the ability to impact every facet of human lif ...

Anonymous's blog REUTERS/China Daily Seeing Purpose and Profit in Algae Although algae grow prodigiously and contain potentially useful molecules, extracting those molecules has proved complicated and expensive. But a US company has a pilot plant tha ...