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...
The past several years there’s been more attention and focus on soil health in agriculture. Not all soils are the same and different places around the world ma...
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...
Do you lock your door at night? Wear a coat when it’s cold outside? Put a case on your cell phone?
If you do any of these things, it’s because you believe in...
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...
If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it too? As a dad, I may have used that line to get one of my kids to use common sense when considering risk.
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It takes a farmer to grow grapes, but it takes an architect to grow grapes in the desert.
That’s what I discovered here in Mali, a landlocked country that re...
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...
“First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”
How about “first in farming”?
I’d love to add that label to George Washingt...
The young man was worried.
“My sister,” he wrote on Facebook, “I have read a lot of unsavory stories about GMOs and many countries with better advanced resea...
