Strengthening Global Food Security Efforts

We are a non-profit that supports climate-smart agricultural projects to help small-scale farmers:

  • Grow healthier, drought-tolerant crops to feed communities
  • Detect plant disease early to save harvests
  • Build resiliency through the latest farming advances tailored to meet their needs & challenges

A Community Investing in the Future of Food

Our members come from many different backgrounds, but we all come eager to learn from each other, invest in the future of food, support scientists with overlooked ideas, and help small-scale farmers.

Grow Further is an inaugural VACS Champion of the FAO United Nations for our work to develop climate-adapted nutritious crop varieties and building, healthy fertile soils.

Our Management

Peter Kelly

President & CEO

Venkatramana Pegadaraju

Vice President of Development

Jennifer Dine

Chief of Staff

Rimple Nahata

Operations Coordinator

Jody Santoro

Marketing & Communications

Nathanial Gronewold

Lead Journalist

Carrie Maloney

Development Consultant

William Cleary

Board Member

Suvasini Ramaswamy

Board Member

Eric Momanyi

Board Member

David Levine

Board Member

Kathleen Hefferon

Board Member

VK Kishore

Board Member

Susan Mathew

Partnership Development Consultant

Joseph O. Gakpo

Communications, Monitoring & Evaluation Consultant

Arian Hosseinipour

Lead Generation Intern

Kevin Yu

Environmental Innovation
Content Intern

David Wang

Sustainable Business Intern

Alesha Black-Miller

Adviser

Alex McCalla

Adviser

Brady Walkinshaw

Adviser

David Zilberman

Adviser

Robert Bensen

Adviser

Gurdev Khush

Adviser

Jim Harkness

Adviser

Prabhu Pingali

Adviser

Robert Bensen

Adviser

Robert Zeigler

Adviser

Ruth Oniang’o

Adviser

Guided by Purpose, Driven by Impact

Our Mission

Empower farmers, scientists, and individuals to create a food-secure future.

Our Vision

Everyone is empowered to create a food-secure world.

What We Do

We start by speaking with the farmers on the ground to understand their biggest challenges and needs. We then select projects submitted by scientists in the local area that will best address these needs and mitigate the farmer’s barriers to success.