Meeting The Brexit Challenge By Opening Our Farm Gates And Telling Our Story
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...
Technology
For Africa, the Way Forward is to Embrace Technology, Not Fear It!
When I first heard about the activists who want to take away crop-protection products from African farmers like me, I couldn’t believe it. Do they really want t...
Kenyan Maize Offers a Lesson in Food Supply Chain Challenges and Opportunities
If we didn’t have maize, everything would be different, from how we farm to what we eat. Less than one season ago, it seemed we were growing more maize than ...
Supplying The World’s Pork
There may not be enough pigs in the world to make up for the losses that China and the rest of Asia is about to suffer from a new outbreak of African swine feve...
Rwanda Leadership Honored As They Work Hard to Eradicate Famine and Hunger
My country Rwanda just marked the 25th anniversary of what may be the worst chapter in its history: the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. On April 7, President P...
Building “Team Borlaug” Through The Global Farmer Network
By Mary Boote - CEO, Global Farmer Network For Norman Borlaug, it was always about the farmers. He loved to meet them, talk with them, work beside them. T...
Farmer Views On Soil Health
The past several years there’s been more attention and focus on soil health in agriculture. Not all soils are the same and different places around the world ma...
I Can’t Imagine A World Without Crop Protection Products
The problem with crop-protection products here in Nigeria is not that we use too many herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides. Our problem is that we don’t us...
Setting the Record Straight about “Food Protection Products”
Do you lock your door at night? Wear a coat when it’s cold outside? Put a case on your cell phone? If you do any of these things, it’s because you believe in...
Nigerians Striving Toward Ethos Of A ‘Greenland’
When popular Nigerian musician TY Bello sang the song “The Land is Green” from her Greenland album, she was re-echoing an ideal birthed by Nigeria’s founding fa...