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33 results
2025
Toward nitrogen-fixing crops: Improving nitrogenase activity in non-diazotrophic hosts
Daniel Suess, Department of Chemistry
Stable, low-cost engineered proteins as biofungicides
Hadley D. Sikes, Department of Chemical Engineering
Food security in Africa through microbiome engineering
Christopher Voigt, Department of Biological Engineering
David L. Des Marais, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Tami Lieberman, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Institute for Medical Science and Engineering
Darcy McRose, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Tavneet Suri, MIT Sloan School of Management
Sixian You, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2024
National crop type maps of India using deep learning and street view imagery
Sherrie Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Data, Systems, and Society
Food security in Africa under a changing climate – Navigating the energy and agricultural transition to net zero
Jennifer Morris, MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy, MIT Energy Initiative
Adam Schlosser, MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy
Kenneth Strzepek, MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy, J-WAFS
2023
Persistent monitoring of nitrogen waste products in the environment
Rajeev Ram, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Using secondary metabolites to manage legacy phosphorus
Darcy McRose, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Optimizing cereal crop plant architecture during an era of high atmospheric CO2
David L. Des Marais, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Enhanced photosynthesis in crops (EPiC)
Matt Shoulders, Department of Chemistry
Mary Gehring, Department of Biology, Whitehead Institute
Bin Zhang, Department of Chemistry
Bryan Bryson, Department of Biological Engineering
Robert Wilson, Department of Chemistry
2021
Impact of near-term climate change on water availability and food productivity in Africa
Elfatih Eltahir, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
A new approach to enhance genetic diversity to improve crop breeding
Mary Gehring, Department of Biology, Whitehead Institute
Accurate optical sensing for efficient fertilizer use and increased yield in small farms
Rajeev Ram, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Rajesh Kumar, Biomedical Engineering- IIT Ropar
2020
Solving the phosphite bottleneck for next generation agriculture and clean water
Christopher C. Cummins, Department of Chemistry
Developing flexible estimates of agricultural supply functions for answering demand-side agricultural questions
Dave Donaldson, Department of Economics
A checklist-based advisory to minimize the cost and duration of worse-before-better in transitioning from chemical to organic smallholder farming
Chintan Vaishnav, Sloan School of Management
Parwinder Singh, Humanities and Social Sciences - IIT Ropar
2019
Designing purely weather-contingent crop insurance with personalized coverage to improve farmers’ investments in their crops for higher yields
Robert M. Townsend, Department of Economics
Electrocatalytic ammonia synthesis for distributed agriculture
Yogesh Surendranath, Department of Chemistry
QuantiSoil: Commercialization of an on-site soil analysis system for smallholding farmers
John Hart, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Chintan Vaishnav, Sloan School of Management
Supporting the resilience of the citrus industry
Olivier de Weck, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
2018
Anthropogenic soils of the Amazon: Origins, extent, and implications for sustainable tropical agriculture
Dorothy Hosler, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Heather Lechtman, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Taylor Perron, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Decentralized torrefaction for producing high-yield, irrigation-saving fertilizer
Ahmed Ghoniem, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Kevin Kung, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Scaling a decentralized biomass torrefaction reactor for localized fertilizer production that improves farmers’ yields and reduces irrigation needs
Ahmed Ghoniem, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Kevin Kung, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Alex Slocum, Department of Mechanical Engineering
