Sustainable Agriculture - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Nov 2019
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Growing Our Food: Making Agriculture More Sustainable

24 Feb 2014
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Transforming India Through Agricultural Innovation

Keywords: rural poverty; agriculture; social enterprise; sustainability; Agriculture; Agriculture

08 Jan 2016
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Investing in Sustainability

Photos by Benoit Cortet Nicholas Tiller (MBA 1998) grew up Springfield, Ohio, a farming community where 4-H was founded, and many of his classmates were in FFA, the Future Farmers of America. Yet Tiller’s education in agriculture and... View Details

Keywords: April White; Agriculture

19 Sep 2016
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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 View Details

01 Dec 2010
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You Are What You Eat

creative tension of competition and cooperation.... We are now in the grip of another agricultural revolution in which Elite Capital takes control of the food chain. It is false to argue that intensification is needed to feed the world... View Details

Keywords: agricultural intensification; Agriculture; Agriculture

01 Jun 2023
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3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)

change, geopolitics, declining fertility rates, bad agricultural practices, high levels of debt, shortages of labor and raw materials, and more. You can’t predict the stress point, but the fact that something will crack is not... View Details

Keywords: climate change; finance; sustainability; prediction; Finance

14 Nov 2019
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Making the Food of the Future

01 Dec 2023
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3-Minute Briefing: Nathaniel Fick (MBA/MPA 2008)

because it doesn’t stifle innovation—and it’s fast. The transformative power of AI can be immensely positive. Eighty-five percent of the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 are off-track. What if we think about using AI to address... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jan 2007
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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

family to lead the company, Zobel inherited a legacy of prudent management that preserved Ayala's interests through times of revolution, colonial rule, dictatorships, and war—not to mention earthquakes and volcanoes. Established in 1834 as an View Details

01 Dec 2022
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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 View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

01 Jun 2023
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Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

extension, cultivate peace and economic opportunity in a region where growing saffron has become a more viable alternative to growing opium. “What better way to use our HBS education than for sustainable View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

27 Oct 2015
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Sweet Success

agriculture, and Lydia had a background in the food industry. “It seemed a good match,” he says. “And if you do it right, harvesting maple sap is a totally sustainable agricultural practice.” Good Timing and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

the worst global pandemics. We are likely facing one of the largest industrial transformations in our lifetime, from the massive deployment of clean energy and electrification of transport, to the shift to more sustainable View Details

15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Oct 2019
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Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain

Agriculture and Business, Emeritus. “Ray left this amazing legacy that my colleagues and I have continued to move forward,” Alvarez says. “He saw that people in the food industry needed to talk to each other to understand the issues they... View Details

26 Oct 2017
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Can Farming Save the Planet?

says, but also means the soil can capture a significant amount of carbon dioxide, which is the major cause of global warming. That is the focus of Sustainable Farm Partners (SFP), a combination farming operation and private equity group,... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Organic farming; Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry; Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry

21 May 2019
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Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest

Reserve Bank of Chicago’s imposing building to discuss with thought leaders and entrepreneurs the impacts of climate change on the agricultural sector of the American Midwest. “Climate change forces us to confront the relationships... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

20 Nov 2015
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Room to Grow

one of the largest owners of farmland in Massachusetts,” he says. His experience with the Trustees of Reservations was Kendall’s introduction to sustainable agriculture and public engagement in their food... View Details