Speaking Up About Policy
Agriculture is strongly impacted by policy around the world. During this Global Farmer Network webinar, two farmers were asked about their ability to communicat...
Maria Gabriela Cruz
Climate Smart Agriculture is a Sustainability Solution
The loud and angry debates over crop-protection products in Europe can give the false impression that farmers like me are prone to over-use chemicals on what we...
What do farmers think about participating in carbon markets?
Wisconsin farmer Nancy Kavazanjian and Portuguese farmer Gabriela Cruz talk about the opportunities, the decisions, and the technologies for measuring carbon ca...
Portugal Farm Tour-Sustainable Farming
Gabriela Cruz is a farmer from Portugal and a member of the Global Farmer Network. She's a 4th generation farmer, growing cereals, legumes and corn and breeding...
Planting the Seeds of Success
Gabriela Cruz, a GFN member from Portugal, was a panelist for a webinar on using carbon markets to incentivise climate-friendly farming: Planting the seeds of s...
European Bureaucrats Deny EU Farmers Access to Innovative Technology
Imagine trying to survive in the modern world with one of those old mobile phones that featured a stubby antenna, push-button dialing, and an LCD display.
Yo...
Fighting Hunger to Achieve Peace
As the Christmas season is celebrated around the world the wish for peace on earth is expressed by many. As I hear these words repeated, it brings to mind a ...
Honoring Those Who Use Science to Multiply the Harvest
When I first met Marc Van Montagu at a meeting of farmers in Brussels, I didnt know who he wasbut I was immediately impressed by his views on biotechnology. H...
A Portuguese Farmers Request for the Freedom to Choose Technology That Helps Feed the World and Science-Based Decisions by the European Commission
We can buy it but we cant grow it.
Thats how crazy the European Unions policies on biotech food have become. Regulators let us purchase livestock feed der...
Freedom to Choose A Farmers Basic Right
It remains to be seen what they’ll do, though anything that allows farmers to break through the anti-GMO gridlock that dominates Brussels is a ste...
Maria Gabriela Cruz
Farmer, Elvas, Portugal
Maria Gabriela Cruz manages a 700 hectare farm in Elvas, Portugal that has been in their family for over 100 years. Growing maize, wheat, barley, green peas and clover, they use no-till or strip-till on the full farm. She has grown biotech maize since 2006. Cruz was the Kleckner Award winner in 2010.