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Exchanges at the Frontier

Exchanges At The Frontier 2011

Episode 4 - Gebisa Ejeta

Duration: 55 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service OnlineLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service Online

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Gebisa Ejeta is an Ethiopian born award-winning plant scientist working on drought-resistant crops in Africa.

He has experienced hunger first hand during his childhood in Ethiopia and is now an advisor to President Barrack Obama as well as a being World Food Prize Laureate and Distinguished Professor at Purdue University, USA.

Join him in conversation about addressing the food crisis in Horn of Africa and abolishing famine world wide.

(Image: A malnourished child in Somalia. Credit: Reuters) Show less

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