Strengthening Food Security: Alliance for a Green Revolution (AGRA)

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New Drought-and-Virus-Resistant Cassava Seeds Are 400% More Productive

For long regarded as “poor man’s” food, nine new improved cassava breeds have been released.  These new varieties are high yielding, fast maturing, drought and cassava mosaic virus resistant and with low cyanide levels

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So Much Food, So Much Hunger.

How can so many people be hungry when farmers produce enough food, at least in theory, to feed every person on the planet?

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  • Can the Yield Gap Be Closed — Sustainably?

    The situation [in Africa] is a prime example of a larger problem that concerns the world’s agronomists: the yield gap. That term is used to describe the enormous gulf between the crop yields obtained by the most successful farmers and the least successful. Farmers in the United States, for example, routinely grow five times as much corn per acre as small farmers in Africa. While Africa has the world’s largest concentration of below-potential agriculture, other areas also lag. They include parts of South Asia, such as rice farming areas in northeastern India, and the agricultural regions of many ex-Communist countries. >
  • Rockefeller Foundation Points to the Importance of Technology and Local Innovation in the Fight Against Climate Change

    Dr. Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, emphasized the Foundation’s integrated approach to development by highlighting its commitment to strengthening food security in Africa while building resilience to the negative impacts of climate change. >
  • Rockefeller Foundation Statement on the Death of Norman Borlaug

    This Nobel laureate and valued colleague of 39 years was a force beyond measure, mobilizing a Green Revolution that saved a billion lives and counting. >
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Our Long History in Africa

Since the early 1900s, when the Rockefeller Foundation provided support for public health efforts aimed at abating yellow fever, the Foundation has maintained its deep commitment to helping African countries manage pressing challenges.

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Africa's Turn: A New Green Revolution for the 21st Century

Between 1960 and 1985, total food production more than doubled in developing countries. But this “Green Revolution” stopped at Africa. Find out what the Rockefeller Foundation is trying to do about it.

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