NATIONAL NEWS (KANSAS CITY, Mo.) — Author Miles Hillmann announces the release of his new book, “The Super Seeders: How Plant Scientists Are Racing to Protect Global Food Security Amid Climate Change and Disease” (ISBN: 9781834188355, Tellwell Publishing), a deeply researched and compelling account of the global scientific effort to safeguard the world’s food supply through advances in plant genetics, breeding, and genomic science.
In “The Super Seeders: How Plant Scientists Are Racing to Protect Global Food Security Amid Climate Change and Disease,” Hillmann draws on first-hand accounts from scientists, breeders, and gene bank curators working at the forefront of agricultural innovation.
The book traces the interconnected systems that underpin modern food security-from global gene banks preserving rare crop diversity, to international research centres and treaties enabling the exchange of genetic material, to the plant breeders translating scientific breakthroughs into resilient, high-yielding crops for farmers worldwide.
At the heart of the book is a pressing global challenge: climate change, population growth, emerging crop diseases, and geopolitical instability are placing unprecedented strain on global food systems. As noted by World Food Prize Laureate Dr. Geoff Hawtin OBE, over 2 billion people currently lack access to sufficient and nutritious food, making agricultural innovation more urgent than ever.
Hillmann’s work highlights how plant geneticists are using rapidly advancing genomic technologies to unlock hidden traits within crops-developing varieties that are more drought-tolerant, disease-resistant, and productive. The book also explores how innovations from the Green Revolution to modern gene editing have shaped today’s agricultural landscape, while acknowledging that crop yield gains are now plateauing and new scientific approaches are essential.
A central question raised throughout the book is whether this genetic and technological revolution in agriculture will reach the 70 percent of Africans who still depend on subsistence farming-an issue that may determine the future of global food security itself.
Hillmann is a lifelong entrepreneur whose career bridges scientific innovation and applied industrial development. His early work in agricultural research in Uganda during the final days of the Idi Amin era, and later experience in regions facing food insecurity, shaped his long-standing interest in food systems and agricultural resilience. He has since founded and led companies in novel feed ingredients, organic materials analysis, oil and chemical spill control, avian and swine flu prevention and flood control systems.
Website: https://superseeders.co.uk/
Buy Link: https://amazon.com/dp/1834188350
SUMMARY [Ai]
- Explores the critical global effort to protect food security as climate change, crop diseases, population growth, and geopolitical instability increasingly threaten agricultural systems worldwide.
- Highlights how advances in plant genetics, breeding, and genomic science are enabling scientists to develop more resilient, drought-tolerant, disease-resistant, and higher-yielding crops.
- Provides readers with rare, first-hand insight into the interconnected work of gene banks, international research centers, and plant breeders working to preserve crop diversity and sustain future food supplies.
- Raises important questions about whether cutting-edge agricultural innovations can effectively reach smallholder and subsistence farmers—particularly in Africa—where access to resilient crops could significantly impact global hunger and nutrition outcomes.
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