Items Tagged with 'Norman Borlaug'

An organization born out of concerns about global food security during World War II, has reinvigorated it's mission and outreach under Director General Manuel Otero to become a key player influencing food and farm policy across the Americas.

Farmers Business Network has launched Norm, the agriculture industry’s first artificial intelligence agronomic adviser.

President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats have two weeks before their next deadline to reach an agreement on his Build Back Better plan to expand social programs and attack climate change.

Nina Fedoroff and Marshall Matz join together to discuss food security and the similarities between the COVID-19 pandemic and the Green Revolution.

In this opinion piece, Julie Borlaug discusses how agriculture has stepped up through each war and health crisis and why we should never give up our #HopeThruAg.

The chief scientist at PepsiCo, the largest U.S. food company, is challenging American agriculture to “dig in” and take greater steps to help provide nutritious, affordable food to a world population that will surpass 9 billion people by mid-century.

When it comes to agriculture research no organization is as important to our farmers as is USDA and the Agriculture Research Service (ARS).

WASHINGTON, June 26, 2017 – Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank, has been announced as the winner of the 2017 World Food Prize.

The Rockefeller Foundation’s mission—unchanged since 1913—is to promote the well-being of humanity throughout the world. Global food security, one of the Foundation’s major focuses, will be front and center when Dr. Raj Shah joins the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) as its new President effective March 1, 2017.