Africa

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
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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
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Blinken Talks Dirt and VACS at Davos

Once again, the world’s elite gathered in Davos, Switzerland to attend the World Economic Forum, widely referred to as simply “Davos” for short. The annual
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Africa

Small Farm Innovation Champion from Burkina Faso Passes Away at 77

Many of this newsletter’s readers have likely never heard of Yacouba Sawadogo. His name is perhaps not as famous as his greatest fans might prefer,
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News

A COP28 Shoutout to Grow Further

At the recent UN climate change conference, agriculture was firmly on the agenda–and Grow Further was on a short list of organizations called out by
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Farming

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
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Africa

Tanzania’s maize craze

Tanzania is famous for some spectacular tourist attractions: Zanzibar, Mt. Kilimanjaro, the Rift Valley, and the African Great Lakes. Tanzanian food is not as well
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Farming

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
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