What will tomorrow's agriculture come together? According to the FAO report "World agriculture : horizon 2015/2030", the 21st century is facing a second, "doubly green" revolution, driven by advances ...

ACCRA, Ghana -- The Des Moines, Iowa-based World Food Prize Foundation has awarded its Norman Borlaug Medallion to former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, who now heads the Alliance for a ...

Modern supercrops will be a big help. But agriculture can’t be fixed by biotech alone. Something is killing Ramadhani Juma’s cassava crop. “Maybe it’s too much water,” he says, fingering clusters of ...

Virginia Tech students and professors gathered to hear Glenn Davis Stone, a professor at Washington and Lee University, give a lecture on agricultural theories and practices earlier this month. Stone ...

While Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton, as well as other smaller cities, exist in this region, there is a need to talk about a green revolution — or in other words, the major agricultural setting which is ...

Agriculture has always been a race against time. Every year the world’s population grows, and every year the world’s farmers strive to feed 83 million extra mouths. Though we’ve normalized it, that’s ...

Have we entered the golden age of plant engineering? In the 1960s, Norman Borlaug, an American biologist, helped spark a period of transformative agricultural innovation known as the Green Revolution ...

In the middle of 1960s, India was on the edge of famine.10 million tons of wheat were imported annually by the U.S. PL-480 getting in spite of consecutive droughts, per capita foodgrains reaching ...

When philanthropists spend vast sums of money on a project, jubilation and high expectations ensue. But money doesn’t necessarily produce results. A case study, according to critics, is the push for a ...

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