Sources and acknowledgments

The author is grateful to the many people from the organisations listed below who gave generously of their time and expertise in the preparation of this report.

• Agmark Kenya
• The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
• The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Bioversity International
• The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
• Brasil-Agro
• The Brazilian Enterprise for Agricultural Research
• The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
• The Donald Danforth Plant Science Centre
• Farm Inputs Promotions — Africa
• The Federation of the Industries of the State of São Paulo
• The Food and Agriculture Organisation
• Global Harvest Initiative
• HarvestPlus
• The International Finance Corporation
• The International Fund for Agricultural Development
• The International Livestock Research Institute
• The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre
• The John Innes Centre
• Kraft Foods
• Moi University
• Eldoret
• Monsanto
• The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
• Nestlé
• Rothamsted Research
• Syngenta
• Western Seed Company - Kenya
• The World Bank
• World Resources Institute
• The United States Department of Agriculture

Many other people gave generously of their time. The author’s sincere thanks go to:

• Abdolreza Abbassian
• Todd Abraham
• Janet Allen
• Paul Anderson
• Gary Atlin
• Ed Baetge
• Abhijit Banerjee
• Marianne Bänzinger
• Gary Barton
• Werner Bauer
• Roger Beachy
• Brett Begemann
• Catherine Bertini
• Syed Osman Bokhari
• Martin Bohringer
• Marshall Boulton
• Ezzeddine Boutriff
• David Boxer
• Peter Brabeck-Letmathe
• Hans-Joachim Braun
• Joachim von Braun
• Jelle Bruinsma
• Toby Bruce
• Julia Bucknall
• Paul Bulcke
• Jacob Burke
• Barbara Burlingame
• Derek Byerlee
• Luis Cantarell
• Neil Conklin
• Gordon Conway
• David Dawe
• Klaus Deininger
• Sam Dryden
• Caroline Dean
• Jean-Jacques Dethier
• Joe DeVries
• Patrick Eozenou
• Shenggen Fan
• Claude Fauquet
• David Fischoff
• Martin Fregene
• Lance Friedman
• Keith Fuglie
• Bonnie Furman
• Sean Gardner
• Kakoli Ghosh
• Joseph Glauber
• Dan Glickman
• Juan Gonzales-Valero
• Delia Grace
• Craig Hanson
• Richard Harrington
• John Hoddinott
• Arjen Hoekstra
• Irene Hoffman
• Peter Holmgren
• Yassir Islam
• Bashir Jama
• Hans Jöhr
• Dave Joslyn
• Beatrice Kemboi
• Parviz Koohafkan
• Don Larson
• Bill Lesher
• Mauro and Ignez Lopes
• Jose Lopez
• John Lucas
• Thomas Lumpkin
• Mike Mack
• Will Martin
• Atul Mehta
• James Miller
• Maurice Moloney
• Graham Moore
• Fred Muhhuku
• Ellen Mühlhoff
• Alexander Müller
• Namanga Ngongi
• Natalie di Nicola
• Divine Njie
• Jemima Njuke
• Irwin Northoff
• Giles Oldroyd
• Shivaji Pandey
• Martin Parry
• Eija Pehu
• Prabhu Pingali
• Julio Toledo Pisa
• Adam Prakesh
• Vipul Prakesh
• Karita Prakash-Mani
• Selvaraju Ramasamy
• Kavita Ramdas
• Usha Rao-Monari
• George Rapsomanikis
• Bob Reiter
• Matthew Reynolds
• Roberto Rodrigues
• Mark Rosegrant
• Hans Rosling
• Josef Schmidhuber
• Carlos Sere
• John Seward
• Steven Shafer
• Garry Smith
• Keith Soanes
• Andrea Sonnino
• Medard Schoenmaeckers
• Steve Staal
• Kostas Stamoulis
• David Starck
• Pasquale Steduto
• Henning Steinfeld
• Laban Talam
• Maria Thais Alfonso
• Robert Thompson
• Roger Thurow
• Maximo Torero
• Kay Walker Simmons
• Patrick Wall
• Evelyn Wanyera
• Keith Wiebe
• Andy Whitmore
• Brande Wulff
• Perry Yeatman
• Steve Yucknut

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