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

WebarazaFarmer.com  / June 2010 / By James Karuga

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.

The New York Times / Sept. 20, 2009 / Andrew Martin

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

© Copyright 2009 The New York Times

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In the News

• Mobile Technology: Phones Prove Useful Tools for Small Farmers

  October 14, 2010
  The Kenya Farmers Helpline provides farmers with access to detailed information about how to improve agricultural production, how to source farm inputs and how to market their produce more effectively. >

• KTN Interviews James Nyoro: Food Security in Africa

  September 09, 2010
  James Nyoro, managing director of Rockefeller Foundation Africa, discusses food security and the green revolution on Kenya Television Network (KTN). >

• The Promise of Africa: Managing Climate Change Risk Is Cheaper than Reacting to Disaster

  September 06, 2010
  The impact of climate on agriculture is all the more devastating as global thinking has focused reactively on managing disaster, rather than proactively managing risk. >

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Press Releases

• Can the Yield Gap Be Closed — Sustainably?

  June 07, 2011
  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

  August 31, 2010
  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

  September 13, 2009
  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. >