Global Farmer Network
Kenya advances GM maize to increase yields, reduce pesticide use
Kenyan farmers are now closer to growing GM (Bt) maize on their farms. The Bt maize planted earlier in western Kenya is already showing resistance to the destru...
The Great Potato Giveaway
Food chain effeciency makes it hard to adapt when something changes. Learn how one farmer was creative as he distributed a mountain of potatoes in this Planet ...
What are you doing October 16?
October 16, 2020 is World Food Day.
As part of World Food Day, Global Farmer Network members Gaytri Devi, India and Jake Leguee, Canada will represent the ...
Ruramiso Mashumba, Zimbabwe receives 2020 Kleckner Award
We celebrate Ruramiso Mashumba from Zimbabwe, winner of the 2020 Global Farmer Network Kleckner Award.
Ruramiso is the founder of Mnandi Africa, an organizatio...
What's soil got to do with climate change?
Check out this comic strip, based on Asmeret Asefaw Berhe's TED Talk, about a climate change solution that's right under our feet.
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Agricultural biotech makes farms more productive
Advancing agricultural science is helping feed people around the world, increasing crop yields, reducing the need for pesticides while feeding hungry communitie...
GFN Congratulates 2020 World Food Prize Laureate, Dr. Rattan Lal
Dr. Rattan Lal will be awarded the 2020 World Food Prize this October in Des Moines, Iowa, for his improvement of global awareness of sustainable soil manageme...
