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UTM Professors selected as Malaysia Rising Star Awards recipients

PUTRAJAYA, 1 November 2016 – Three professors from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) have been selected to be recipients for the 2016 Malaysia Rising Star Awards for their achievements in the research and developments (R&D).
They are the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation), Prof. Dr. Ahmad Fauzi Ismail, Director of Process Systems Engineering Centre (UTM-PROSPECT), Faculty of Chemical and Energy Engineering Prof. Ir. Dr. Sharifah Rafidah Datu Wan Alwi and Prof. Dr. Zainal Salam from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

Prof. Dr. Ahmad Fauzi and Prof. Dr Zainal received the awards under the category of Frontier Researcher and Prof. Dr Sharifah Rafidah under Young Researcher category.

They were selected for obtaining the top one percent of the Highly Cited Papers published worldwide and the selection was made by Thompson Reuters and Elsevier.

They received the award from the Minister of Higher Education, Dato’ Seri Idris Jusoh during the Malaysia’s Rising Star Award & CREAM 2016 Status Ceremony in Putrajaya, today.

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Agricultural Biotechnology is Helping Farmers Grow Food Sustainably

The Obama Administration has made global food security a top priority in which American agriculture must play a key role.

Biotechnology allows farmers to grow more food on less land using farming practices that are environmentally sustainable. Through biotechnology:

Seeds yield more per acre, plants naturally resist specific insect pests and diseases, and farming techniques improve soil conservation.

Farmers and ranchers can help plants and animals fight diseases and adapt to environmental stress and climate change. We can enhance the nutritional content of foods and improve human health through plant- and animal-produced therapies.

The benefits of biotechnology are especially meaningful at a time when our global population is growing and our demand for food is increasing, especially in developing countries.

“Our strategies must deal with increasing agriculture production. A number of things could help countries increase output including seed technology.” – U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, August 5, 2009

Feeding a world population of 9.1 billion in 2050 will require raising overall food production by 70 percent (nearly 100 percent in developing countries).
– United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization

Source: https://www.bio.org/advocacy/letters/agricultural-biotechnology-helping-farmers-grow-food-sustainably

PDF: world-food-day