This column originally appeared on 11/11/19 in the Ideas & Debate section of Business Daily Africa.
In the West, daily, people are asking themselves, “W...
Always let the farmer have a voice.
That’s the message I delivered last month at an agricultural forum in Germany—and it’s the message that I intend to sprea...
“Hey, be neat, no meat,” said television talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres in a short video she posted to social media on September 17.
“It’s a great idea for t...
“We care deeply about where our ingredients come from,” says Chipotle Mexican Grill on its website.
Yet the restaurant chain apparently doesn’t care enough t...
Farmers on the frontiers of prosperity are choosing GM seeds.
They’re embracing this technology so much that 54 percent of the global cropland devoted to GM ...
The statement just came to me: “Let Africans decide what is best for Africa!”
A European “expert” had offered a different opinion. In his view, African farme...
It is very difficult to stop a good idea from spreading.
This is the ultimate lesson gained from the discovery this spring that genetically modified brinjal ...
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...
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 ...
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...
