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Improving Agricultural Productivity in Uganda

August 19, 2014 Lindsay Carter, Program Analyst, Foreign Agricultural Service

Standing next to her healthy oxen, Grace Opono explains how new conservation techniques have doubled her maize yield over just two seasons. She is also earning a second income by providing tilling services to neighbors with her oxen. She tells me she can now afford to pay the school fees for her...

Conservation Trade

Scientists Discover Gene to Combat Devastating Wheat Rust

June 27, 2013 Jennifer Martin, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, and Sean Adams, Agricultural Research Service

USDA scientists and their partners have found a molecular tool that will help control wheat stem rust, a fungal disease threatening much of the world’s wheat supply. First reported in 1999 in Uganda, wheat stem rust--caused by the Ug99 pathogen--is a devastating disease in several countries in...

Food and Nutrition Research and Science

Why Open Data Matters: G-8 and African Nations Increase Open Data for Food Security

May 08, 2013 Wayne Maloney, Office of Communications, USDA

Recently, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack opened the G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture here in Washington. As head of the U.S. Delegation, the Secretary noted that “Data is quickly becoming one of the most important commodities in agriculture,” and encouraged the sharing of...

Research and Science

Wheat Genome Sequenced in Breakthrough for Global Food Security

November 28, 2012 Sandy Miller Hays, Information Staff, Agricultural Research Service

The Journal Nature today published a paper reporting that scientists from USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), as part of an international team, have completed a shotgun sequencing of the wheat genome. The achievement is expected to increase wheat yields, help feed the world and speed up...

Food and Nutrition

Bridging the Gap on Agricultural Research and Development with the Private Sector

February 23, 2012 Dr. Catherine Woteki, USDA Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to meet with 70 private sector representatives at the first Feed the Future Public-Private Partnership Technical Forum, hosted jointly by USDA, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Department of State at the White House Conference Center. We...

USDA Results

Agricultural Science: More Than You Think

February 23, 2012 Robert Sowers, USDA-Agricultural Research Service

As we reflect in celebration of USDA’s 150 th anniversary, it’s easy to take pride in the problem-solving abilities of agricultural scientists since 1862. The challenges in America have been great, including the Dust Bowl, wars, human health threats, and attacks on crops and animals from pests...

Health and Safety Research and Science

Ugandan Dairy Cooperatives Quadruple Sales and Create Jobs with Help from the Food for Progress Program

March 02, 2010

Agriculture Secretary Vilsack today announced that USDA will donate more than $145 million in international assistance under the Food for Progress Program in fiscal year 2010. This figure will benefit more than 3.4 million people in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East by providing access...

Food and Nutrition Rural
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