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Anonymous's blog   On October 6, 2014, US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack spoke at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs on how innovation in US agriculture is helping to reduce hunger and advance a safe, nutritious, and affordable food supply b ...



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Anonymous's blog Can Coffee Stimulate Renewable Energy in Central America Coffee waste water is rich in organic matter, which can be used to generate energy via anaerobic decomposition. At present, the negative environmental impacts of waste water ar ...


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Kim Heys's blog By Elise Ellinger, a fourth-year BS candidate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign studying nutrition and development economics, and an intern with The Chicago Council’s Global Agricultural Development Initiative. As a stude ...


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Anonymous's blog The Chocolate Revolution: Central American Startup Seeks To Grow Sustainable Cocoa Production Smallholder cocoa farmers are underpaid and impoverished. But there is a new, more ethical chocolate movement going on. By removing middlem ...


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Kim Heys's blog This post was originally published by the World Food Prize Foundation. The World Food Prize 2014 Borlaug Dialogue international symposium is being held from October 15 – 17 in Des Moines, Iowa to address the question: “Can we sustaina ...


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Kim Heys's blog Next Generation Delegation 2014 Commentary Series By Robyn McCallum, MSc Candidate at Dalhousie University’s Agricultural Campus and 2014 Next Generation Delegate As a Next Generation Delegate, I was delighted to participate in discus ...


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Kim Heys's blog By Margaret M. Zeigler, PhD is the Executive Director of Global Harvest Initiative This week, close to two thousand leaders from across the United States and the globe came together in Des Moines, Iowa to debate, discuss, learn and fo ...


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Kim Heys's blog This post was originally published by the World Food Prize Foundation. The World Food Prize 2014 Borlaug Dialogue international symposium is being held from October 15 – 17 in Des Moines, Iowa to address the question: “Can we sustaina ...


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Kim Heys's blog This post was originally published by the World Food Prize Foundation. The 2014 Borlaug Dialogue international symposium is being held from October 15-17 in Des Moines, Iowa to address the question: “Can we sustainably feed the 9 bill ...