As part of our series, "10 ideas to make the world less hungry," Ben Muir talks to Bruno Basso, an ecosystem scientist at Michigan State University, about using legumes as a substitute for fertilizers.

Michigan State gave Basso the ‘innovation of the year award’ in 2016 for his work on crop-plant innovation and crop-plant management. He is now working with the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization on innovative ways to quantify crop production at the end of each growing season.

Basso's idea to make the world less hungry is rooted in agronomy management.