What if the answers to our most urgent food challenges aren’t found in high-tech labs—but in the hands of farmers themselves?

In this episode of One Bite is Everything, host Dana DiPrima speaks with Peter Kelly, founder of Grow Further, an organization working to fill the critical funding gap in agricultural research by supporting innovations designed with and for smallholder farmers.

Peter shares how projects like early-maturing beans in Ghana, iron-rich millet in Zimbabwe, and irrigated wheat in Ethiopia are redefining food security—not just abroad, but here at home.  

In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

• Why agricultural research is severely underfunded—and why that matters
• How farmer-led innovation is transforming food systems from the ground up
• What U.S. farmers can learn from global agricultural breakthroughs
• How climate-smart farming starts with listening, not lecturing
• Why supporting local and global research is critical to feeding a growing planet

Guests

Peter Kelly – Agricultural economist and founder of Grow Further

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