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Kim Heys'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 are ...


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Kim Heys's blog 9572931636_e6ab4dd121_o.jpg By Ken Cassman, PhD, Faculty Fellow at the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute at the University of Nebraska and Professor of Agronomy   Participating in the 2014 World Food Prize Week got me think ...


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Kim Heys's blog This post originally appeared on Sense & Sustainability. By Patrick Bell, PhD candidate in Environmental Science at Ohio State University and 2014 Next Generation Delegate Part one of a two-part series on the landscape approach to ...


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Kim Heys's blog How Technology Is Transforming Tasmanian Farms Dairy cows wearing electronic collars in northern Tasmania are part of a wireless experiment aimed at enhancing milk production and detecting when the animals are on heat to ensure succes ...


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Kim Heys's blog goodfoodorgguide_500w.jpg On October 27, 2014, Food Tank and the James Beard Foundation released the first annual Good Food Org Guide at the James Beard Food Conference. The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is among the distinguished ...


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Kim Heys's blog In the latest issue of The Rotarian magazine, Senior Fellow Roger Thurow reports on the basic steps to giving babies a healthy start in life. Minutes after giving birth in the Shivgarh district community hospital in India, new mothers ...



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Kim Heys's blog Next Generation Delegation 2014 Commentary Series   By Pierre Paul Audate, MSc Candidate in Development Practice and 2014 Next Generation Delegate   Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, the first UN Millennium Development Goal, is ...


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Kim Heys's blog Food 2.0: The Future of What We Eat It was perhaps inevitable that food would become the next industry to face the bright heat of Silicon Valley disruption. The innovation driving the latest wave of food start-ups rests less on the di ...


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Kim Heys's blog In a commentary on AgriPulse, Marshall Matz and Peter Matz discuss sustainable agriculture production. On September 29, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General José Graziano da Silva issued a ...