Global Food Security & Regenerative Agriculture: Cultivating Success with Bottom-Up Innovation
Join Grow Further’s founder Dr. Peter Kelly and Africa Food Prize Laureate Dr. Ruth Oniang’o for a conversation about bottom-up approaches for agricultural innovation. Together they will explore how grassroots […]
The Role of Social Scientists in Agricultural Research
The phrase “agricultural research” conjures images of professionals wielding hard science to explore how to grow more food or improve farm incomes. One might imagine scientists in white coats busy […]
Now Comes the Hard Part
Dr. Neema Mduma was poised and confident as ever when Grow Further checked in with her recently. As one of the first recipients of a Grow Further grant, she and […]
Smartphone Apps for Smallholders: What’s Really Useful?
Two years ago, partners in Zambia launched “Maano” or the Virtual Farmers Market, a smartphone application that’s supposed to link small-scale farmers with produce buyers to net farmers better prices […]
Innovative Finance for Innovative Research: How We Got Here
In late 2020, this author sat down for a Zoom interview with Peter Kelly, founder and CEO of Grow Further. Back then, Peter was forging an international team to help […]
Toward a More Nutritious Chickpea
Most modern crops are much more palatable and high yielding than their wild ancestors–the wild ancestor of maize, for instance, looks more like grass than food–but that has often come […]
Protecting Farms from Animal Attacks
As farmers and gardeners everywhere know, animals like to eat crops. In the Eastern US, it’s deer. In many tropical regions, it’s elephants. In parts of Japan, monkeys. And high-profile […]
Pasteurizing Mushrooms in Zimbabwe
In his Grow Further grant application, Dr. Prince Marowa, a senior lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe, reflects fondly on his childhood memories of picking wild mushrooms with friends and […]
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 […]
Fulani and the Future of Dairy
In our first-ever review of applications for research grants, Grow Further is discovering a wide array of unique and creative ideas for revolutionizing smallholder agriculture through innovation. Concepts range from […]
