African Continental Free Trade Area: The Right Move for Africa
Africa is a big and diverse continent, but now the 1.2 billion of us who live here are united under a free-trade agreement that went into formal effect on Janua...
Trade
Tom Vilsack's Encore Performance at USDA Can Be Good for American Farmers
Call it an encore performance: Tom Vilsack will return to the United States Department of Agriculture.
President-elect Joe Biden announced last week that Vilsa...
Leadership Required from the US President
Joe Biden has promised to be "a president for all Americans."
This obviously includes farmers, who are often lumped together politically but in fact are a diver...
Resilient Agriculture
COVID-19 has left a lasting impact. For farmers in Zimbabwe and across Africa, the business of food production and distribution never has seemed more difficult....
Resilient Agriculture Requires Trade Barriers be Removed
The average person in Uganda eats 660 pounds of bananas each year.
That's a lot of bananas: It's at least 50 percent more than the weight of a full-grown male ...
A New Trade Deal Is A Vital Economic Opportunity That Must Not Be Missed
Trade talks between the United Kingdom and the European Union are "deadlocked," according to the Associated Press. Difficult negotiations always involve brinkma...
Celebrating the Freedom to Trade
I once touched the Liberty Bell.
It was a long time ago: I was seven or eight years old and my mother had taken me to Philadelphia to see the sights. Although ...
Celebrating the Certainty of Trade
From the Covid-19 pandemic and its stay-at-home orders to the protests over police brutality and all of their controversies, this year will go down as one of th...
Adaptive Agriculture During a Global Pandemic
At a time when millions of Americans are losing their jobs, many farmers are feeling blessed to have work. But that doesn't mean that the coronavirus hasn't hur...
It's Time to Start Up Our Economy Again
When truckers come to our farm for pinto beans, we don't shake hands or bump elbows. Instead, we practice social distancing: Drivers will pull up and roll down...