To Feed a Nation, Cuba Opens the Door to GM Technology
Cuba has some of the best soil I've ever seen. I'd love to farm in ground that good.
I just wouldn't want to live on that oppressed island.
Cuba may be blesse...
Food Safety and Labeling
Validation of Agriculture as an Essential and Sustainable Industry
Did you know that our most basic foods could be totally consumed around the world in just a few months?
This is why governments everywhere have labeled agricul...
The European Green Deal is a Bad Deal
The European Commission has a plan to eliminate modern farming in Europe.
The details emerged last month, as part of a "European Green Deal" announced late ...
Adaptive Agriculture During a Global Pandemic
At a time when millions of Americans are losing their jobs, many farmers are feeling blessed to have work. But that doesn't mean that the coronavirus hasn't hur...
Women Who Farm Are Food Security Champions
People everywhere are concerned about coronavirus. Here in Zimbabwe, we are more concerned about the staggering negative effects on the economy due to the lockd...
Access to More Trade Could Mean Access to New Technologies for Kenyas Farmers
When I traveled to the United States from my familys farm in Kenya two years ago, I saw firsthand how agricultural science and engineering can help feed the w...
Sensible Fertilizer Regulation is Important to Kenyas Farmers and our Environment
It is common knowledge among Kenyan farmers that without fertilizer, crops wont grow.
Just as children need healthy diets to flourish, plants need special n...
Still Waiting for Approval to Plant Golden Rice
Bangladesh is on the verge of making one of the most important decisions in the history of GM crops: It may become the first country to commercialize and grow g...
Item of Interest: Let's trust African scientists in war on hunger
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, 'What...
Let the Farmer Have a Voice
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 spread ...