Let Africans Decide What is Best for Africa
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...
Food and Nutritional Security
India’s Farmers Want Access to Innovative Agriculture Technologies
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...