Africa is a Breadbasket of Opportunity
For many Americans and Europeans, Africa is the charity continent—a hopeless land of starving people who need handouts merely to survive. Sometimes it seems ...
Infrastructure
West Coast Port Slowdown Impacts Agriculture
The slowdown in shipments through the U.S. west coast’s 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....
With the Right Tools, Zimbabwe Can be an Agricultural Breadbasket
The world of your grandparents may seem utterly different from your own. Where I live, however, it looks like nothing has changed. I raise sorghum and maize ...
EU Biotech Decisions
One of the challenges of crafting a new free trade agreement with the EU in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations is overcoming...
Consolidation in Chinese Agriculture is Pushed Forward
Farm consolidation has become an ongoing issue in China. The No. 1 Central Document for 2014 released jointly in January by the Central Committee of the Chinese...
Nicaragua Dreams of Building a Canal for the Ships of Tomorrow
The Panama Canal almost was the Nicaragua Canal. A little more than a century ago, the United States came close to building “the path between the seas” to the n...
China Continues to be Out of Sync on Biotech Corn
China’s rejection of cargos of U.S. corn containing a biotech trait not yet approved for import has reopened a continuing problem. At issue is Syngenta AG's Ag...
Building Infrastructure to Support Innovative Agriculture Research
On October 7, three American scientists shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries on how cells transport molecules. It was a trium...