Ian Pigott

Agriculture Holds the Key to Addressing Climate Change

Ian PigottOctober 10, 2019

Activist teenager Greta Thunberg scolded heads of state last month at a United Nations Summit in New York for failing to confront climate change: “How dare you!...

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Meeting The Brexit Challenge By Opening Our Farm Gates And Telling Our Story

Ian PigottJune 6, 2019

Close to 300,000 visitors will descend on British farms on June 9. I dreamed up Open Farm Sunday (OFS) some 14 years ago. Its purpose is to build trust and bust...

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Farmers separate wheat from chaff in more ways than one

Ian PigottJanuary 23, 2019

Farming is a full time profession, yet many Global Farmer Network members have their hands quite full with a variety of other activities as well. Including 201...

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UK Farmer Provides Opportunities “Where Learning Comes To Life”

Ian PigottAugust 23, 2018

Thrales End Farm is just about 20 miles north of London. It is where Ian Pigott the 2014 Kleckner Award recipient and his family have farmed for quite some tim...

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It’s Time to Reject the Hysteria and Embrace the Science

Ian PigottMarch 23, 2017

Contrary to many sensationalist newspaper headlines, the world’s leading weedkiller doesn’t cause cancer in people. That’s the conclusion of the European Che...

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Farmers, We Must Take It To The Public

Ian PigottOctober 16, 2014

When Norman Borlaug died five years ago, he uttered his famous last words: “Take it to the farmers.” That’s good advice, but I’ve spent a lot of my time doin...

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Science Helps Mark Lynas Change His Mind

Ian PigottJanuary 17, 2013

“There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy,” says the British writer Theodore Dalrymple. Mark Lyna...

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Trade

Three Voices. One Message. Ratify USMCA Now.

Farmer’s Caught Between Unenforced Trade Agreements and Political Gamemanship

A New Day Dawning for the U.S. and “Land of the Rising Sun”

Technology

California Can Keep the Water Flowing

Item of Interest: Let’s trust African scientists in war on hunger

Sharing A GM Technology Testimony From India to Uganda