Created with Snap
Who We Are
Our Mission
Join Us
AfS Brochure
AfS Gear
Our Team
Our Funders
Our Affiliate
Our Allies
Our Partners
Farming Future Bangladesh
Women Who Farm Africa
Science Stories Africa
Global Fellows
2019 Fellows
2018 Fellows
2016 Fellows
2015 Fellows
Events
Upcoming
Previous Events
Training
Global Leadership Fellows Program
Applying to be a Global Leadership Fellow
Short Courses
The AFS – FFAR Fellows Program
News & Views
Research
Resources
Media Library
Speakers Bureau
Misinformation and Disinformation
COVID-19 ‘infodemic’ study
Conspiracy Theory Handbook
GMO Myths
10 GMO Myths (PDF)
En Español: 10 mitos sobre los OGMs
GMO Myths in Africa
10 things everyone should know about GMOs in Africa
Donate
Media
Albums
Animal Biotech
Global Fellows in Action
Late blight disease
Diamondback moth
Cowpea
Global farmers
Cotton
Rainbow papaya
Banana
Cassava
Water Efficient Maize
Eggplant (Brinjal)
Akhter Hossain of Bangladesh compares healthy potatoes (right) to potatoes infected with late blight fungus.
Credit: Alliance for Science
Download
Close up of potato infected by late blight fungus.
Credit: Alliance for Science
Download
Potatoes ruined by late blight disease (left) are compared to healthy potatoes.
Credit: Alliance for Science
Download
Friday Herbert, a Ugandan potato farmer, participates in planting genetically engineered late blight disease resistant potatoes in a late 2017 confined field trial.
Credit: Alliance for Science
Download
Ugandan farmer Friday Herbert displays a miserable potato harvest, despite spraying twice with fungicides to help prevent losses to late blight disease.
Credit: Alliance for Science
Download
Precision Abel Arinaitwe, manager of the Uganda confined field trial for genetically engineered late blight disease resistant potatoes, ensures uniformity in spacing while planting.
Credit: Alliance for Science
Download
Dr. Charles Mugoya (right), chairman of Uganda's National Biotechnology Council, and Dr. Eric Magembe, a molecular biologist at the Crop Improvement Project, observe a late 2017 confined field trial for late blight disease resistant potatoes.
Credit: Alliance for Science
Download
Local farmers participate in planting late blight resistant potatoes at a confined field trial at Rwebitaba in Fortportal, Uganda.
Credit: Alliance for Science
Download
Check out our full collection of science and farmer videos on
YouTube
. If you’re interested in raw video footage or other photographs, please contact allianceforsci@cornell.edu