Bambara Ground-What?
Throughout Africa and Asia, small-scale farmers have been quietly tending to this crop for generations, yet most have never heard of it. It’s highly nutritious, ready for a changing climate, […]
Grow Further at the Borlaug Dialogue
Kicking off the discussion, Donald Summers invited Grow Further chair Peter Kelly to share how the idea for Grow Further first came about. Kelly said it all originated from a […]
Meet Our First Grant Recipients
It’s been a long, tough, but carefully plotted journey for Grow Further on our mission to transform the way agricultural research and development is funded. Along the way, we’ve met […]
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 […]
Travels in Tanzania
Our founder and CEO Peter Kelly spent a month traveling through Africa on a due-diligence trip, visiting several projects that could become recipients of the very first Grow Further grants. […]
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 […]
Travels in Ghana
Our founder and CEO Peter Kelly recently returned from visits to several African countries to meet grant applicants and farmers and see research projects and communities. He not only brought […]
Building a Better Pearl Millet
Pearl millet is a staple crop in much of sub-Saharan Africa. This food is especially popular with farmers in arid regions as it’s known to grow in some of the […]
From Ghana to Tanzania
The adventure continues. The last time we checked in with him, Grow Further founder and CEO Peter Kelly was recovering from an exhausting day exploring maize fields and meeting with […]
