The Borlaug Field Award Goes to an Organic Fertilizer Innovator
The organization behind the famous World Food Prize has bestowed another award to a postdoctoral researcher active in Kenya for creating a cheap and fast way to produce organic fertilizer. […]
Larger Team, Same Laser Focus
This past year has been an exciting and busy one for Grow Further. And there’s more excitement to come as we gear up to announce our latest grants in support […]
More CO2 Could Mean Less Nutritious Foods
“Plants need CO2” was once a popular slogan for climate skeptics, meaning people who refused to believe that higher atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations would lead to higher average global temperatures. […]
The Road Traveled Thus Far
A few years ago, agricultural economist Dr. Peter Kelly set out to improve how the world funds research benefitting smallholder farmers. Flash forward to today, and this endeavor called Grow […]
How Climate Change Weighs Down Women Smallholders
The late Nelson Mandela once said, “Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression.” In equal measure, a food-secure future cannot be achieved unless […]
Innovation + Farmer Participation = R&D Success at Scale
Getting any industry to adopt new technologies aimed at transforming the way it operates can be slow and expensive work. This is particularly true with agriculture, and especially with smallholder […]
Where There Are Climate Change Challenges, There Are Also Solutions
Climate change is threatening to complicate the lives of smallholder farmers throughout the developing world. The ultimate solution to the root causes of human-driven global warming is to drastically lower […]
Climate Change Threatens Smallholder Farmers on Multiple Fronts
Monday, July 22, was the hottest day on record according to a European Union climate change monitoring organization. It’s a record that will be beaten again, though no one wants […]
Measuring the Economic Impact of Agricultural R&D
Investing in agricultural research and development pays off big time. Just how big is still under debate, but experts agree that investing in farm innovation reaps an amazing variety of […]
CSR in Action
What is corporate social responsibility, and what does it look like in practice? Let’s take a look at some examples. Fair Trade certification, especially popular among coffee drinkers in the […]
