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Using Science and Social Enterprise to Improve Rice Crop Yield in India and Bangladesh
Pamela Ronald, of the University of California, Davis, talks about how her laboratory, in collaboration with other scientists, developed a variety of rice with sufficient submergence tolerance to survive severe flooding.
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Quality and Innovation as the Basis for Sustainability
John Kehoe discusses how the chocolate maker TCHO has encouraged social entrepreneurship in developing countries through innovative supply chain practices.
The Ethiopian Approach to Food Security
How one African country is changing how we feed the world.
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Social Entrepreneurship and Cocoa Farmers
TCHO company executive John Kehoe talks about the firm's goals in producing high-end products and helping farmers in developing countries.
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Fast Food and the Family Farm
It’s time to reform how we grow food and what we have for dinner, says Bruce Boyd, principal and managing director at Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors.
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