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...
Food and Nutritional Security
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...
Tips For President Kenyatta’s “Big 4 Agenda” For Kenya
Just as cooking a good meal takes the right ingredients, Kenya’s “Big Four Agenda” needs the right ingredients of advanced science and technology, led by GMO se...
A Super Bowl Short on Guacamole?
What does a wheat farmer in Canada have in common with a yam producer in Ghana? It sounds like the start of a bad joke. But the answer is simple….” more t...
The Story Behind Your Glass of Milk
I’m a dairy farmer who loves to tell the story behind a glass of milk! Every story about the food we eat is important, but I think it has become even more impo...
India’s Supreme Court Must Protect Intellectual Property Rights
As people of the land, farmers understand the value of property rights. As a farmer in India, traditional property rights are intact and at the center of our so...
The World is Ready for Golden Rice
The world is starting to open its eyes to the wonder of Golden Rice. On May 24, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave its approval to this genetically m...
Learning By Doing Helps Indian Agriculture Thrive
Farmers must educate each other: That’s the best way we can learn to thrive, adopting the new technologies and sustainable practices that both conserve resource...
Dueling Visions of Tomorrow’s World
History is full of great rivalries: Athens versus Sparta, Lincoln versus Douglas, even the Roadrunner versus Wile E. Coyote. Author Charles C. Mann describes...
What If Africa’s Farmers Had Access to Needed Seed Technology?
We’ve been told by trusted media and researchers that Kenya is on the brink of accepting biotechnology in agriculture. I’ve said it myself. And now, President ...