FOOD FOR LIFE - REVIEW 2017
How can we optimize food production in Africa? | Ciara Judge, Émer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow
Meet Ciara Judge, Émer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow, Google Science Fair 2014: Grand Prize Winners. They became interested in addressing the global food crisis after learning about the Horn of Africa famine in 2011. When a gardening project went awry, they discovered a naturally-occurring, nitrogen-fixing (Diazotrophic) bacteria in the soil called Rhizobium.
Faster growing, higher yield crops | Ciara Judge, Émer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow
Meet Ciara Judge, Émer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow, finalists in Google Science Fair 2014. Using a naturally occurring nitrogen-fixing bacteria, combined with crop seeds that the bacteria doesn't usually associate with, resulted in reduced germination times and increased dry mass yield.