Empowering Change - Interview with Dr Gebisa Ejeta, World Food Prize Winner

BIOTECanada speaks with Dr Gebisa Ejeta, winner of the 2009 World Food Prize, about how the private sector can help in agricultural development. A researcher specialising in sorghum, Dr Ejeta's research has increased yields of this important staple crop, increased its resistance to weeds and worked with farmers in Ethiopia to set up a seed distribution system to get the seeds out into the community.
Interview conducted by: Dr Mejda Benali, Director, Agricultural and Industrial Biotechnology and Kasia Majewski, editor, BIOTECanada insights magazine. Learn more about BIOTECanada at: www.biotech.ca

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• agriculture
• biotechnology
• Africa
• development
• GMO
• biotech food