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- 28 May 2019
- News
Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
Jos farmers planted some 1.1 million tomato seeds in greenhouses and later transplanted them into the fields; the company also worked with more than 200 smallholder farmers to increase their tomato yields. Mehta is now anticipating the... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Seeding a Better Future for Colombia
Part architectural spectacle, part tourist attraction, and part government-sponsored stage for forums and meetings that seed progress on key economic and diplomatic fronts, World Expos have been taking place since the 1850s. Colombia... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
fertilizers, and insecticides, Batcha explains, the average crop yield of corn has increased nearly fivefold in the years between his youth and his retirement from Asgrow, where he worked for 28 years. Batcha took a leap of faith in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
volunteer garden on the site of a reclaimed golf course in suburban Omaha, Nebraska. This garden is a living ambassador of the Sacred Seed project, a nonprofit Keen founded in 2014 to simultaneously promote more sustainable agricultural... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
Wilson says. The standard offerings for non-drinkers—even at special occasions—can feel like real kids’ table fare. The standard offerings for non-drinkers—even at special occasions—can feel like real kids’ table fare. On the craft-brewery side, entire ecosystems are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
cattle ranching. To learn the value of his crop, a farmer could turn on the radio for regular market updates from commodity exchanges. But prices of the seeds and chemical fertilizer used to grow those crops... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Photography by Jason Andrew Ibrahim Mustapha grows maize in Katsina Fulani, a village of mud-brick houses topped by rusted corrugated roofs in northern Nigeria. Like millions of farmers in his country, Mustapha is a "smallholder"; he and his family grow their View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
food for its people. Through gardens planted with heirloom crops like Omaha Sacred Red Corn, Cherokee Trail of Tears Beans, and Mandan Squash—the "Three Sisters" of Native American lore that thrive when planted together—Sacred View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
debating in 2016 how quickly the firm should bring to market its novel microbiome-coated seeds, which increased crop yields, reducing the environmental impacts of farming. Some of their seeds were able to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
What happens when a group of Missouri corn farmers gets into the energy business? With consumers paying more than double for gasoline than they did a year ago, turning crops into fuel, not food, seems like a good way to go — but not so... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
sponsorships to Fortune 500 companies trying to reach our network of millions of K-12 students and their parents. new england TrophoMax® is the brand name for patented agricultural seed and leaf inoculants that have demonstrated View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
Bank of Chicago, told the audience. For instance, an extended growing season or double cropping for farmers may be possible with a focus on precision farming. “In some ways, it seems like the Midwest may benefit ... but at the same time... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
For its initial handful of customers, AGR has focused on high-value, high-margin but labor-intensive crops like berries and table grapes, where Burro can use computer vision to navigate between rows, following pickers to shoulder the... View Details