Harvesting Opportunities: Uniting India and the US for a Food-Secure Future
With a massive and diverse population of over 1.4 billion and rising, India has surpassed China to become the world’s most populous country according to the United Nations. India is […]
Harvesting Opportunities: Cultivating US-India Collaboration in Agriculture and Food
Join Grow Further Founder Dr. Peter Kelly for an upcoming panel conversation, Harvesting Opportunities: Cultivating US-India Collaboration in Agriculture and Food, at Seattle University’s RoundGlass India Center on May 1st, […]
Grow Further Members Connect with Researchers
Americans of all professional backgrounds contribute to science all the time, from donating to medical research to helping to spot birds or distant galaxies. Fundraisers for cancer or heart disease […]
Need to Know the Breed of Your Cattle? They’re Making an App for that
Farmers in Bangladesh have a problem—they don’t know where their cows come from. It’s a common practice among ranchers and dairy farmers in the developed world to track the lineage […]
The Incredible Mutant Sorghum
Striga hermonthica, commonly known as witchweed, is a dangerous enemy of food security, which makes it the enemy of Philippe Nikiema, a plant breeder at the Institute of Environment and […]
Growing More of Indonesia’s Treasured Shallots
Gina Aliya Sopha, a horticulturist from Indonesia, told us she drew initial inspiration for her smallholder agricultural research grant proposal from perhaps an unlikely source—YouTube. Speaking with Grow Further, Sopha […]
Enhancing “Innovation Capacity” to Drive Mechanization in Bangladesh
Governments and numerous private organizations throughout the developing world promote the mechanization of smallholder agriculture to strengthen rural economies. Yet most of the world’s smallholder farms still operate under human […]
Plotting a Digital Farm Revolution in Nine Countries Across the Asia-Pacific
What might it take to digitize smallholder farms across the Asia-Pacific region? An international alliance of agricultural scientists is now busy trying to answer that very question. “Digitization” is, of […]
Community Seed Banks are Quickly Becoming Mainstream
Farmers have been storing, repurposing, and even sharing seeds for thousands of years. Formal public seed banks to preserve important seeds may have existed as early as ancient Persia. In […]
Bring Back the Chocolate: Building a Better Cocoa Bean in Malaysia
Valentine’s Day, Easter, Halloween, and White Day wouldn’t be the same without cacao. And smallholder farming in Malaysia isn’t the same as it was back when the crop was more […]
