Iowa State University and Heifer International, an international development nonprofit organization, have agreed to explore new opportunities and projects to use science to address world hunger and poverty.
The collaboration is the first agreement from the Iowa State’s Global Food Security Consortium, one of the recently announced ISU Presidential Initiatives for Interdisciplinary Research. The initiatives pull together researchers from ISU, other institutions, national labs and industry to tackle significant challenges of national and international importance.
“Innovative advances in climate-resilient crop and livestock science and the ability to transfer technology to those who need it most are at the heart of addressing hunger and poverty,” said Misra, professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering, Dean’s Chair for Distinction on the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and director of the Seed Science Center.
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