Pedro Sanchez: A Smarter Way To Combat Hunger
Pedro Sanchez, a senior research scholar and director of tropical agriculture at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, will participate in the panel “How...
Using Science To End World Hunger
A popular perception of the phrase “genetically engineered food” looks something like Victor Frankenstein’s lab. Only evil. Particularly in Europe, where genetically modified produce...
Bill Freese: Food-Sci vs.Sci-Fi
Bill Freese is tired of promises. In the 30 years since scientists first announced that they could crack the secrets of plant and seeds...
An Update on Tried and True Methods
In December, 2006, the Economist magazine famously pronounced that farming is inherently bad for the planet. “Since humans took it up around 11,000 years...
Downsizing: Not Personal, But Not Easy
It’s a case of the messenger now getting the message. For three years Mary Anne Kennedy was director of human resources for the Global...
Recession-Proof? Think Again
There have been many sacrifices in Randi Quiroga’s life since she was downsized by Merrill Lynch last July, but perhaps the thing she misses...