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Fertilizer Companies Help Provide Key Inputs to the Millennium Villages

October 20, 2010 No comments yet

Ten years on from when the Millennium Development Goals were first set, key private sector organisations in the agriculture sector have joined the global efforts to address the anti-hunger and environment objectives of the MDGs.
Agrium and Mosaic are two fertilizer companies that partner with Millennium Promise, an NGO committed to supporting the achievement of the

Soil Fertility Key to Reducing Hunger in Tropical Africa

June 8, 2010 1 comment

 
Replenishing soil fertility, by using mineral and organic fertilisers, could triple crop yields in tropical Africa, according to Pedro A. Sánchez from the Earth Institute.
In Asia and Latin America food production tripled between the 1960s and 2000 thanks to the use of high-yielding crop varieties, but Sánchez says that a similar success is hampered in



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