Agroforesty: A Perfect Marriage - An agroforestry project that marries forestry with farming — and scientific
research with international development — is beginning to bear fruit.
Any farmer will tell you that you can’t grow vegetables in forests.“Too much shade,” they’ll say.“Vegetables need direct sunlight.” Or, “Too much competition. The trees will suck up all the water.”
Sounds obvious, right? Not quite, according to data that is emerging from agroforestry research led by Dr. Manuel
Reyes, a biological engineer with the Agricultural Research Program.
FROM BANANA YOGURT TO CARROT JUICE, FOOD MICROBIOLOGIST SEEKS NEW VEHICLES FOR PROBIOTICS Dr. Salam Ibrahim has spent most of his career tackling many of the challenges inherent in the probiotic bacteria known as bifidus. In addition to seeking food safety applications for the healthful microbe, he is seeking new functional foods that will harbor the bacterium so that it will find a happy home in the human gastrointestinal tract, where it plays an important role in health. [ interview | story ]
GROUNDBREAKING COOPERATIVE FUELED BY BIOENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING Here in North Carolina where soybeans are a big-time agricultural commodity and have enormous potential as a biofuels source, Dr. Abolghasem Shahbazi notes the success of farmers throught the Corn Belt with a decidedly Kennedy-esque vision of what biofuels could mean to this state's farmers. [ interview | story ]
PEANUT BETTER
Dr. Mohamed Ahmedna would like to see a day when every child - allergic or not - can enjoy a healthy, nutritious peanut butter sandwich. That day might arrive sooner instead of later, thanks to a process that he has perfected to inactivate allergens in peanuts. [interview | story ]
AG. RESEARCH PRODUCES UNIVERSITY'S FIRST SPIN-OFF COMPANY
The discovery of a rare antibody-binding protein in the Agricultural Research Program laboratories has given rise to N.C. A&T's first spin-off company. [ interview | story ]
GROUNDBREAKING COOPERATIVE FUELED BY BIOENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
