Maria Gabriela Cruz

European Bureaucrats Deny EU Farmers Access to Innovative Technology

Maria Gabriela CruzSeptember 13, 2018

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...

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Fighting Hunger to Achieve Peace

Maria Gabriela CruzDecember 26, 2013

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 ...

Food and Nutritional Security4 Comments 0

Honoring Those Who Use Science to Multiply the Harvest

Maria Gabriela CruzJune 27, 2013

When I first met Marc Van Montagu at a meeting of farmers in Brussels, I didn’t know who he was—but I was immediately impressed by his views on biotechnology. H...

Agricultural TechnologyFood and Nutritional Security5 Comments 0

A Portuguese Farmer’s Request for the Freedom to Choose Technology That Helps Feed the World and Science-Based Decisions by the European Commission

Maria Gabriela CruzMarch 15, 2012

We can buy it but we can’t grow it. That’s how crazy the European Union’s policies on biotech food have become. Regulators let us purchase livestock feed der...

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Freedom to Choose – A Farmers Basic Right

Maria Gabriela CruzOctober 14, 2010

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...

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Great Expectations

Maria Gabriela CruzJanuary 23, 2009

As a Portuguese farmer, I’m hoping that he will--specifically with respect to Europe and GM crops. Mr. Obama has the ear of Europeans. Pre-election pol...

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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