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Women in Ag Profile: Dr. Alison Van Eenennaam
Whether it's shearing sheep in her native Australia, collecting bull semen on a cattle ranch in Texas, or using biotechnology to breed better animals, Dr. Alison Van Eenennaam has devoted her career to livestock.
Common ground on sustainable agriculture: A Family Affair
She's a scientist who studies the genetic basis of resistance to disease and tolerance to stress in rice. He's an organic farmer, prohibited by organic certification rules from using GE seeds and plants in his fields.
Alliance Director Sarah Evanega wins 2021 Borlaug CAST Communication Award
Cornell Alliance for Science Director Sarah Evanega, an imagineer, international leader and icon of young science communication professionals, has been awarded the coveted Borlaug CAST Communication Award. “With her ability to communicate on a variety of issues facing science, agriculture and technology, she is a worthy recipient of the 2021…
Fall armyworm adds bitter note to farmer’s ‘sweet and sour journey’
For 83-year-old Florence Wambui Theiru, a life of farming in Central Kenya has been a sweet and sour journey. Over the decades, she’s seen it all. But fall armyworm, a devasting new pest that is devouring the maize crops that she depends on to feed her family and provide fodder…
The Alliance for Science journey through 2016
AFS Contributor, Joan Conrow, writes about the successes of the Cornell Alliance for Science from 2016.
Facing our fears and finding hope: How we are reframing biotechnology in Bangladesh
Every time I talk about agricultural biotechnology in Bangladesh, I start with a simple truth: food security here is a daily battle. We are a nation of more than 175 million people living on land the size of New York State. Climate…
Food Security Is Peace Security: My Reflections on Africa’s Crossroads
When I speak about the connection between food and peace, I’m not thinking in abstractions. I’m thinking of real communities across Africa where a bad harvest can turn into a crisis, where drought or pests can uproot families, where hunger slowly erodes hope until instability takes…
Price of fear: Estimating cost of delayed uptake of GM crops in Kenya
Decades ago, while working as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Oxford’s Institute of Virology and Environmental Microbiology (IVEM), I witnessed the powerful potential of genetic modification to address persistent challenges in agriculture. We were on the cusp of breakthroughs that could help plant breeders combat crop losses caused by pests,…
It’s time for agricultural revolution as Africa’s food crisis worsens
Rates of hunger in Africa are unacceptably high and getting worse. The UN State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024 report reveals that food insecurity in Africa is the highest of any world region. The prevalence of undernourishment is 20.4 percent (some 298.4 million Africans)…