Isabel DoCampo's blog By Sara Menker, Founder and CEO, Gro Intelligence When Ethiopia’s belg rains, which run from March through May, failed last year, many areas, especially in central and eastern Ethiopia received less than 50 percent of typical ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog By Anne Wanlund, Country Director, Gardens for Health International The adage “time is money” holds true no matter who you are in the world. For a rural woman smallholder in Rwanda, investing time in her family’s land is a cri ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog The Innovators: Desalination Unit Brings Clean Water on Wheels The “Desolenator” operates as a mobile desalination unit that can take water from the sea, rivers, and boreholes—as well as rain—and clean it for human consumption ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog By Madeline Poole, Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences As a teen from the Southside of Chicago, food insecurity was nothing new to me. I saw it every day from homeless men begging on the streets, to young children on t ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog Jack Payne, Senior Vice President, Agriculture and Natural Resources, and Leader, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida Your parents were wrong: Money does grow on trees. Tampa Bay rakes up tens of ...
73.akintunde_akinleye.reuters.jpg Isabel DoCampo's blog On April 26, the Council launched a new report, Growing Food for Growing Cities: Transforming Food Systems in an Urbanizing World, at the Global Food Security Symposium 2016. Each week, we will ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog This post originally appeared on Brink. By Jason Clay, Executive Director, Markets Institute, World Wildlife Fund In 1893, suffragette Mary Elizabeth Lease predicted that all food would be in the form of a pill by 1993. Other ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog By Esther Ngumbi, post-doctoral researcher, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Mentor for Agriculture, Clinton Global University, New Voices Fellow, Aspen Institute Growing up in a rural farm in t ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog In Benin, a New Stove Turns Rice Waste into Clean Fuel Researchers at AfricaRice are developing a stove that’s fed by a solar-powered fan and is designed to burn off most of the gas released by the burning rice husks, a byproduc ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog The traditional focuses of land grant universities—agriculture and science—need not only have traditional applications. Today, the rise of big data holds the capacity to transform agriculture the world over. The information enco ...
