Ignorance is Taking Away Choice
Cathie Martin has a good way of describing the critics of GMOs. She calls them "the W.W.W.s." She doesn't mean the World Wide Web, but rather the Well, the Weal...
Innovations: Agricultural Technology
Weather Stations and Appropriate Farm Machinery for African Farmers Needed
Political and business leaders along with individuals focused on our global food system gathered in Rome and virtually this week for the Food Systems Summit spo...
Innovation and Technology in Agriculture Has No Boundaries
Access to technology has made me a better farmer---and my decades-long experience with it has changed how I think about growing food.
I've learned that there...
Agroecology as a Choice, Not Coercion
Meet the world's new farming buzzword: "agroecology."
I'd try to define it, but "agroecology" is one of those slippery terms whose meaning shifts depending on ...
Accepting the Musk XPRIZE Carbon Challenge on Behalf of the World's Farmers
The first XPrize reached for the stars. What if the solution to the latest one lies in the soil beneath our feet?
In January, entrepreneur Elon Musk promised in...
Using Innovative Agriculture to Conserve Biodiversity
Sometimes the greatest discoveries are made by accident.
We weren't specifically looking for a new species of bee on our family farm in Brazil---but we found o...
Technology in Water Usage Will Help Us Do More With Less
Water shortages threaten to devastate India's food security, driving down winter harvests by 20 percent nationwide and by as much as 68 percent in key regions, ...
A Garden to Honor American Heroes
Farmers and artists share something in common: They devote themselves to acts of creation.
Farmers plant seeds and nurture them into crops that fill fields that...
Perennial Wheat: The Holy Grail of Wheat Research
If you plant an apple seed today, you'll probably have to wait about seven years before your tree grows fruit. Once it does, however, it can produce for decades...
A Promising Response of Science to Face Challenges and Better Feed the World
Most of Argentina's major agriculture areas---including those of our neighbors in Paraguay and southern Brazil---are suffering from drought. Its intensity range...