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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
Pacific, which plans to use modern agricultural technology and management to enable people living on remote Pacific islands to grow fresh vegetables and fish to replace unhealthful diets high in calories and low in nutrition. Second place... View Details
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- 29 Apr 2019
- News
A Global Mission
countries by his count—looking for places where his business expertise could reshape response to complicated humanitarian crises. His first project was in Bangladesh in the 1970s, when he led a project on agricultural restoration after... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
afraid that mass-produced supermarket food is excessively processed, tainted with antibiotic residues and hormones, and lacking important nutrients. But public-health and agriculture regulators say no: Americans have no inherent right to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Global Leaders
and long-term value creation. In addition to this, he is cofounder and chairman of Voxtra, a social impact investment firm that focuses on improving the livelihoods of those in the agriculture sector in East Africa. He and his wife,... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers
consumption of local, sustainably produced food.” That mission was inspired by the work of Food Solutions New England (FSNE), an organized network of agricultural experts, farmers, academics, concerned citizens, and regional grassroots... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
information. We owe it to those who passed away in the disaster to upgrade our systems to help save lives in any future calamity." —GE AGRICULTURE John Whiteside Grass Farmer, Wolf Creek Farm For years, the résumé of John Whiteside (MBA... View Details
- 21 Dec 2017
- News
A Decent Place to Live
housing in the public realm, as well as just running as efficiently as we can. “I spent the last 10 years before Habitat working on rural poverty and rural hunger, which largely centers on agricultural development. Most of the poorest... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- News
Smarter Farming
Steven Carden (MBA 2003) is CEO of PAMU Farms of New Zealand (formerly Landcorp Farming). In this video, he talks about the changes the organization is going through to adjust for shifting dietary trends and the impact of large-scale farming on the environment. “PAMU... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Seeding a Better Future for Colombia
countries with the highest potential to increase the world’s agricultural production.” Roughly 4,000 visitors walk through Colombia’s pavilion each day, experiencing high-tech simulations of its five different climate zones. In addition... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- News
Canada’s Native Son
and a decreasing global food supply. Favel figures his work in agriculture provides him with perspective on global food issues. In the next century, he notes, "We're going to have increased demand for food and shrinking global farm... View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
and electric vehicles, and ride sharing. They also spoke in favor of smart agriculture and plant-heavy diets. Beef consumption is especially challenging, they said, as demand for protein to feed the world’s rapidly growing population will... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact
Digital Initiative to facilitate online and offline conversations around classroom topics. Responses ranged from oil companies to ice-cream makers and almost everything in between. We’ve excerpted a few of them here. Shake Shack Data point: “The UN’s Food and View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Sustainable Farming in the Arid World
Philipp Saumweber (MBA 2006) started Sundrop Farms to bring sustainable horticulture to the arid world, growing high-value crops using seawater and sunlight and bringing jobs to communities that previously had no agriculture sector. In... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Ayr Muir: Hey Chris, where’s the medlar? These are medlar. Julia Hanna: Wow. Ayr: I’m trying to find a nice squishy one. So in... they were popular in medieval times and they’re like, you find references to... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
At Work in the Fields with the Lord
In California’s Coachella Valley, Sister Marsha Allen (MBA 1976) is spearheading a coalition of nonprofits and charitable organizations in an effort to build a tent city for the 20,000 migrant farmworkers and their children who come to the valley every year to harvest... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Steve Barger (MBA 1974)
twice been named the Best Company to Work For by Washington CEO magazine. I remember sitting in Professor Ray Goldberg’s office during my second year at HBS discussing a project I was working on. His assistant interrupted to tell him that Earl Butz — the U.S. Secretary... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
scholarships, supported by committed donors and foundation grants. EARTH is a private, nonprofit school that offers a four-year undergraduate degree in agricultural sciences and natural resources management and a master’s degree in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
wildflowers,’” Crespin explains. So CollaborateUp helped create the Honey Bee Health Coalition, which brings together beekeepers and beekeeper associations, conservation and environmental groups as well as big agriculture and government... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
transmission and food insecurity in domestic and agricultural settings. Protein degradation modulators deployed against validated cellular targets for use as anticancer therapeutics. A chemical synthesis platform for generating large... View Details
- 07 Jun 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
in agricultural sciences and natural resources management and a master’s in agribusiness innovation. Courses are taught by an international faculty and emphasize experiential education in sustainable View Details