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The National Geographic Society and PepsiCo Fund Global Research to Help Accelerate Regenerative Agriculture
Today, the National Geographic Society and PepsiCo announced five new grants funding on-farm research to support practical advancements in regenerative agriculture, from rewilding prairies to leveraging AI technology to translate complex genomics into tangible farming guidance. The research will target critical food crops in climate-stressed production hot spots around the world. The scientists were selected from a highly competitive pool of talented researchers with proposals in 140 countries.
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