Farmers in Nigeria Can be Successful with the Right Tools
Whats the point of increasing my yield if most of it will rot anyway?
For farmers, thats the voice of despairand I often hear my fellow African farmers ...
Infrastructure: Transportation & Broadband
Taking Care of the Soil is a Gift for Our Children
Farmers dont inherit the soil from their parents as much as they borrow it from their children. As the International Year of Soils comes to a close, we have to...
Words Matter: When a port Strike became Slowdown we all paid
The word longshoremen is an example of slang thats gone mainstream. It comes from the days of clipper ships. When they showed up in port, the call went out f...
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza and Trade
An international trade protocol has been developed to handle situations of disease in livestock and poultry in a major exporting country. Now that highly patho...
The Port Slow-Down was an Unnecessary Economic and Humanitarian Disaster
The ports on the West Coast are open for business againand not a moment too soon.
Technically, they never closed, though for months theyve suffered from a ...
Economic Integration of the U.S. and Mexican Broiler Markets
Free trade of U.S. feed products and poultry from the U.S. to Mexico has allowed Mexican producers and consumers to benefit from lower feed costs and lower reta...
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 ...
West Coast Port Slowdown Impacts Agriculture
The slowdown in shipments through the U.S. west coasts largest container port in Los Angeles, California due to a labor dispute has caught national attention f...
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 ...
Progress with China on Biotech Crop Issues
In early December 2014, China announced it would issue import approvals for three biotechnology products, one corn event and two soybean events, important to U....