Accepting the Musk XPRIZE Carbon Challenge on Behalf of the World's Farmers
The first XPrize reached for the stars. What if the solution to the latest one lies in the soil beneath our feet?
In January, entrepreneur Elon Musk promised in...
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Using Innovative Agriculture to Conserve Biodiversity
Sometimes the greatest discoveries are made by accident.
We weren't specifically looking for a new species of bee on our family farm in Brazil---but we found o...
Technology in Water Usage Will Help Us Do More With Less
Water shortages threaten to devastate India's food security, driving down winter harvests by 20 percent nationwide and by as much as 68 percent in key regions, ...
A Garden to Honor American Heroes
Farmers and artists share something in common: They devote themselves to acts of creation.
Farmers plant seeds and nurture them into crops that fill fields that...
Farmers Must Be More Active and Less Reactive As Policy Is Determined
Tractor protests aren't enough.
Driving farm equipment through local urban centres to show disapproval of government policy is a great way to win headlines. By...
Tanzania's Regrettable Ag Technology Decision
At the very moment when Kenya is confirming itself as a GMO success story, our neighbor to the south and fellow East African Community member-state has turned i...
Mexico's Self-Defeating War on Safe Technologies
The strangest thing about Mexico's war on crop-protection tools is the assumption that farmers like me don't care what we spray on our fields.
Of course we care...
COVID-19 Vaccine is a Science-Based Technology Life Saver
The science of GM technology may save my life.
That's because I'm about to get my COVID-19 vaccine. I have the fortune of becoming an early recipient, but only...
A Story of Resilient Seeds
Researchers in Israel are giving a new meaning to the term "expiration date."
They've taken date-palm seeds found while excavating ancient sites in the Judean w...
Looking at 2020 Through the Lens of a Glass Half-Full
The year 2020 has presented unforeseen challenges around the world. But if we want to see the glass half-full, we also should remember our blessings---and maybe...