Eastern Europe

Biotechnology’s Prospects in the Black Sea Region

Bill HoranAugust 8, 2013

Around the world, we hear stories of agricultural progress, as more countries join the Gene Revolution. In 2012, Cuba and Sudan planted biotech crops for the fi...

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Using Technology to Close the Yield Gaps in Global Food Production

Ross KorvesSeptember 6, 2012

The need to double global food production by 2050 is widely accepted by most food policy analysts, as is the concept of doing it mostly through ‘sustainable int...

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Farm Production Success in the Ukraine Will Require Change

Tim BurrackDecember 1, 2011

You find villages with the town water source an open well with a winch and a pail on a chain. You see horse-drawn wagons that move feed and people. And liv...

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EU Agriculture and Trade Policy in the Midst of Financial Turmoil

Ross KorvesApril 30, 2010

The ongoing government financial crisis in Greece has kept the European Union (EU) in the news lately as fears have grown that the crisis has already spread to ...

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Energy Policy 101

Bill HoranJanuary 30, 2009

Chicagoans should be glad they don’t live in Eastern Europe. Earlier this month, Russia shut off its supply of natural gas, ostensibly in a dispute over p...

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Public Policy Responses to High Wheat Prices

Ross KorvesMarch 20, 2008

The current episode of high wheat prices has stimulated discussion about the role of government actions to manage U.S. wheat supplies. The American Bakers Asso...

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Trade

Three Voices. One Message. Ratify USMCA Now.

Farmer’s Caught Between Unenforced Trade Agreements and Political Gamemanship

A New Day Dawning for the U.S. and “Land of the Rising Sun”

Technology

California Can Keep the Water Flowing

Item of Interest: Let’s trust African scientists in war on hunger

Sharing A GM Technology Testimony From India to Uganda

Biotechnology’s Prospects in the Black Sea Region

Using Technology to Close the Yield Gaps in Global Food Production

Farm Production Success in the Ukraine Will Require Change

EU Agriculture and Trade Policy in the Midst of Financial Turmoil

Energy Policy 101

Public Policy Responses to High Wheat Prices