Indias 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 ...
Food Safety and Labeling
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 couldnt believe it. Do they really want t...
Kenyan Maize Offers a Lesson in Food Supply Chain Challenges and Opportunities
If we didnt 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 ...
Supplying The Worlds Pork
There may not be enough pigs in the world to make up for the losses that Chinaand the rest of Asiais about to suffer from a new outbreak of African swine feve...
Rwanda Leadership Honored As They Work Hard to Eradicate Famine and Hunger
My countryRwandajust marked the 25th anniversary of what may be the worst chapter in its history: the1994genocideagainst 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 Cant 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 dont 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 Nigerias founding fa...
Tips For President Kenyattas Big 4 Agenda For Kenya
Just as cooking a good meal takes the right ingredients, Kenyas 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 than y...