Choosing Technology to Enhance Sustainability
I choose to grow genetically modified crops on my farm for a simple reason: sustainability.These products of modern science make me more economically and en...
Biofortification
Smart Labels Help Consumers Make Smart Choices
A funny thing happened during the debate over GMO labels: A number of companies decided to make the voluntary disclosure that their food includes ingredients th...
Technology Is Africa’s Food-Secure Future
The average African farmer is a 60-year-old man who took up agriculture because that’s what his parents did.I’m a woman who, in her mid-20s, chose to become...
Celebrating India’s Miracle Crops: Past, Present and Future
Half a century is a long time, but that’s how long I’ve been thinking seriously about India’s struggle with food security—and how technology can help to solve i...
The Opportunity to Choose Seeds Must Be in the Hands of Indian Farmers
When Vandana Shiva spoke to students at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa on November 16, she used one of her favorite lines: “Seeds must be in the hands of ...
GMO Labeling Compromise Legislation is the Best and Cheapest Lawyer
“What a long, strange trip it’s been.”For the past 25 months, Congress has been considering the role that biotechnology plays in agriculture and society and...
Open Letter to the EU Parliament from a Kenyan Farmer: Leave Africa Alone
In 1885, the great European powers met in Berlin to share Africa amongst themselves, launching a dark period of colonialist exploitation.Today, European law...
GM Crops Have Transformed My Life for the Better
The world’s farmers have passed a remarkable milestone: We’ve just planted the world’s 5-billionth acre of genetically modified crops.We don’t know exactly ...
Philippine Supreme Court GMO Ruling Shows Vulnerability But Offers Hope When Farmers Speak Up
Judges almost took away our food and our farms.This year’s growing season here in the Philippines is near its end, and once again we faced all of the usual ...
Farmers are the Musicians of the Land
Farmers are the musicians of the land.This thought struck me as our family celebrated the 100th birthday of one of my great uncles. During the gathering las...