Last week, while attending the Economist Conference titled: Feeding the World in Geneva Switzerland, Dr Patrick Webb, Academic Dean at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University kindly took time to speak with us for a podcast interview. Listen here: Read more »
Borlaug Institute: “We’ve got an enormous job to do…”
In this podcast we talk with Borlaug Institute Director, Dr. Edwin Price about the recently formed partnership between the Howard G Buffet Foundation and the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture. Borlaug Institute: Helping Small Farmers Secure Access to Land The purpose of the partnership is to promote African agricultural research, extension and education and [...] Read more »
“Don’t Forget about Africa”
Collaboration to Advance African Agriculture and Fight Hunger Last week The Howard G. Buffett Foundation and the Norman Borlaug Institute at Texas A&M announced a new collaboration based in South Africa at the Ukulima Farm Research Center to advance African Agriculture and Fight Hunger. “It is my hope this collaboration will improve agricultural [...] Read more »
How Blueberries Got to England
I first met Jennifer Trehane of the Dorset Blueberry Company when she came to the Whitesbog Blueberry Festival in southern New Jersey in 2008. Whitesbog is the birthplace of what has become a global commercial blueberry industry. Dated March 1951, the letter seen below tells just part of the story about how commercial blueberry plants [...] Read more »
Throw To Grow Profile: Lan Thai
“Food is Medicine” Video by nathan m peracciny From the Throw To Grow Team: “Food is medicine.” Lan Thai Our next installment of the Throw To Grow Profile series, features Lan Thai, Chef & Founder of Happy’s Hawai’i. Happy’s Hawai’i combines innovation, a sense of community, with traditional Vietnamese cooking. All to create fresh and [...] Read more »
Trouble in the Fields
Farmers Contend with Texas Drought The state of Texas is currently in the midst of a major drought. In this short film from Jenna Creech, Meteorologist Rusty Garrett indicates the state has not been this dry since the 1950′s, adding: “Truly, the current Texas drought harkens back to the dustbowl day’s of the 30′s…” A [...] Read more »
Throw To Grow Profile: Daniel Anthony Part 2
Self Reliance, Dogged Determination & Really Big Thinking Watching this and other videos in the Throw to Grow Profile Series will enable you to have a lesson in true self-reliance, dogged determination and some really big thinking. This group is growing food and community around a very simple composting process whereby anyone can divert 100 [...] Read more »
Tomato Sauce
Super 8 Documentary About Making and Storing Homemade Tomato Sauce This sweet documentary shows how fun and relatively easy it is to prepare and bottle your own tomato sauce. Shot in Super 8 by filmmaker Karen Asmundson, it’s a nice peek at how much fun can be had cooking up a nice batch of homemade [...] Read more »
Intelligent Crops
Brazil: Researchers help farmers adapt to climate change through science Executed by Brazillian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), farmers in Brazil are helped by science in an agricultural advancement program funded by the Inter-American Development Bank From the labs of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), a new breed of seeds and harvesting techniques are revolutionizing [...] Read more »
Under the Soil
Video by Kelsey Lee: From the filmmaker: This video was developed for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as a supplement for plant science courses. Read more »
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