World Food Prize Laureate Abed is focused on making life better for ordinary people
The chickens were too small.
Thats what Sir Fazle Hasan Abed thought when he looked at poultry grown by small family farmers in his native Bangladesh in the...
Biofortification
Wheat and Rice and Food Security
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 ...
Rural Women Farmers in Africa can do Better When Given Access to Technology
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 ...
Africa is a Breadbasket of Opportunity
For many Americans and Europeans, Africa is the charity continenta hopeless land of starving people who need handouts merely to survive.
Sometimes it seems ...
2014 in Review
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 ...
Yes. GM Foods are as Safe as Their Conventional Counterparts
A startling exchange on Capitol Hill last week ought to end the debate over whether genetically modified foods should carry special warning labels.
It came n...
Indias Decision to Allow GM Crop Field Trials is a Turning Point for a Second Green Revolution
As a farmer in India, I am hopeful my country has reached a turning point and will finally embrace 21st-century farming, setting the stage for a second Green Re...
Africas Farmers Want to Plant the Best Crops Science Can Offer
To many people around the world, the cassava is an exotic crop that they have never eaten. Or so they think. Yet anybody who has tasted tapioca pudding has prof...
A Farm Mom Looks Forward to Innovative Potatoes That Will Cut Waste!
Every mother knows the feeling.
You go to the grocery store, buy a sack of potatoes, and come home to get that meal on the table fast only to discover afte...
Honoring a Wheat Scientist who has Helped Family Farmers Improve Their Lives
Some nights its stressful enough to put dinner on the table for my family. Imagine being responsible for feeding millions of people.
Thats the achievement ...