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Philippine Supreme Court GMO Ruling Shows Vulnerability But Offers Hope When Farmers Speak Up

Rosalie EllasusApril 7, 2016

Judges almost took away our food and our farms. This year’s growing season here in the Philippines is near its end, and once again we faced all of the usual ...

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Farmers are the Musicians of the Land

Joni Kamiya-RoseMarch 31, 2016

Farmers are the musicians of the land. This thought struck me as our family celebrated the 100th birthday of one of my great uncles. During the gathering las...

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Looking Forward to More Accessible, Affordable Salmon

Bill HoranDecember 3, 2015

“People don’t want to eat it,” claimed Dana Perls, referring to genetically modified salmon. When this professional activist talked to the Washington Post, s...

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The Dr. Oz Show Needs a Warning Label

Bill HoranOctober 1, 2015

The wizard is a fraud. That’s what Dorothy and her friends discover in “The Wizard of Oz.” Many viewers of The Dr. Oz Show will have reached a similar con...

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GMOs and the Puzzling Double Standard of My Generation

John Rigolizzo IVJuly 20, 2015

TATT blog by John Rigolizzo IV: Berlin, New Jersey Date - 20 July 2015 ____ It seems the more that happens in the world, the more confused I become. ...

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World Food Prize Laureate Abed is focused on making life better for ordinary people

Eve NtseoaneJuly 9, 2015

The chickens were too small. That’s what Sir Fazle Hasan Abed thought when he looked at poultry grown by small family farmers in his native Bangladesh in the...

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Wheat and Rice and Food Security

Ross KorvesMarch 26, 2015

Rice and wheat are food staples for most of the world and remain critical for food security, even though most of the public policy issues in agricultural trade ...

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Rural Women Farmers in Africa can do Better When Given Access to Technology

Lydia SasuFebruary 5, 2015

Bill Gates made a startling observation at the World Economic Forum last month. He pointed out that in Africa, where I live, 70 percent of adults farm. And yet ...

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Africa is a Breadbasket of Opportunity

Gilbert Arap BorJanuary 29, 2015

For many Americans and Europeans, Africa is the charity continent—a hopeless land of starving people who need handouts merely to survive. Sometimes it seems ...

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2014 in Review

Mary BooteDecember 31, 2014

In 2014, the farmers of Truth about Trade & Technology celebrated the centennial year of Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution. We also marked ...

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Trade

Tariff Turmoil in Times of Abundance

A New Zealand Farmer Looks at Subsidies Through a Different Lens

History May Repeat Itself

Technology

European Bureaucrats Deny EU Farmers Access to Innovative Technology

On the Brink of Innovative Ag Technology Acceptance: A Kenyan Farmer’s Perspective

Unnecessary War on Glyphosate Puts Sustainable Agriculture at Risk