By growing GMOs, "Financially, I managed to send my children to school," said Motlatsi Musi, a South African farmer who is a member of the Global Farmer Network...
Nobody knows how many Africans will die from coronavirus.
A new report from the United Nations says that the death toll probably will exceed 300,000.
It ...
When I first heard about the activists who want to take away crop-protection products from African farmers like me, I couldnt believe it. Do they really want t...
As a child, I would collect dry cattle dung on the outskirts of town. My family burned it to cook food and keep warm. For protein, we often ate locusts. Theyre...
Once, my farm was part of a war zone, just south of Johannesburg, South Africa. I had to be optimistic to drive a tractor through a minefield, as I did in the a...
Back in the dark days of apartheid, many South African farmers like myself were forced to drive our tractors through fields full of landmines as we worked hard ...
Mr. Motlatsi Musi grows maize, beans, potatoes, breeding pigs and cows on 21 hectares he acquired in 2004 through the Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development Program (LRAD) in South Africa. He was recognized Oct 17 in Des Moines, Iowa as the 2017 Kleckner Award recipient.
