Farmers

Learning By Doing Helps Indian Agriculture Thrive

Rajaram MadhavanMay 10, 2018

Farmers must educate each other: That’s the best way we can learn to thrive, adopting the new technologies and sustainable practices that both conserve resource...

Agricultural TechnologyFood and Nutritional Security0 Comments 2

Dodging a Glyphosate-Ban Bullet

Jake FreestoneNovember 30, 2017

Europe just came close to banning the world’s most popular crop-protection product, but instead it narrowly avoided a terrible decision that would have frustrat...

Crop Protection & DiseasePrecision Ag, Water, Soil0 Comments 1

Supporting a UK Champion of Sound Science: Princess Anne

Mark WagonerApril 6, 2017

Farmers have a new favorite member of the British royal family: Princess Anne. Queen Elizabeth, of course, is regal and steady—a model leader of a constituti...

Agricultural Technology1 Comment 0

UK Farmers Must Focus and “Get Fit Quick” Post-Brexit

Paul M. TempleMarch 9, 2017

Stay in the EU or get out: That’s the choice the United Kingdom faced in last year’s referendum, and now we face Brexit, a democratic decision I have to accept....

Barriers, Market Access, Other IssuesNAFTA, Other Agreements0 Comments 0

Improved Infrastructure is a Competitive Advantage

Terry WanzekFebruary 23, 2017

I’ve always known that moving food from farm to fork depends on excellent infrastructure—but until about fifteen years ago, I took a lot of it for granted. I...

Infrastructure0 Comments 14

Technology Is Africa’s Food-Secure Future

Ruramiso MashumbaFebruary 9, 2017

The average African farmer is a 60-year-old man who took up agriculture because that’s what his parents did. I’m a woman who, in her mid-20s, chose to become...

Agricultural TechnologyBiofortificationFood and Nutritional Security3 Comments 0

The Story Behind Your Cup of Coffee

Pierre Kamere MunyuraDecember 15, 2016

Americans like to know the stories behind their coffee. This is one of the surprising facts I’ve learned on my visits to the United States, from my coffee fa...

Agricultural Technology0 Comments 0

Message to the NY Times: Farmers Choose to Plant GM Crops Because They Are Delivering Benefits

Terry WanzekNovember 17, 2016

I don’t tell reporters at the New York Times how to write their articles. Maybe they should consider not telling me how to run my farm. That was my first tho...

Agricultural TechnologyCrop Protection & DiseasePrecision Ag, Water, Soil5 Comments 0

Advocating for Agriculture On A Changing Planet

Maria Beatriz Giraudo GaviglioOctober 13, 2016

My father with a group of farmers worried about soils in Argentina stopped centuries of unintentional agricultural degradation by changing the way they farmed t...

Agricultural TechnologyPrecision Ag, Water, Soil1 Comment 0

It’s the 2016 Global Farmer Roundtable week…

Global Farmer NetworkOctober 10, 2016

It's hard to believe that 2016 marks the eleventh year of the Global Farmer Roundtable and the tenth presentation of the Kleckner Award. Time surely does fly. ...

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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