Learning By Doing Helps Indian Agriculture Thrive
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...
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Dodging a Glyphosate-Ban Bullet
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...
Supporting a UK Champion of Sound Science: Princess Anne
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...
UK Farmers Must Focus and “Get Fit Quick” Post-Brexit
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....
Improved Infrastructure is a Competitive Advantage
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...
Technology Is Africa’s Food-Secure Future
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...
The Story Behind Your Cup of Coffee
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...
Message to the NY Times: Farmers Choose to Plant GM Crops Because They Are Delivering Benefits
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...
Advocating for Agriculture On A Changing Planet
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...
It’s the 2016 Global Farmer Roundtable week…
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. ...