Food Security

ITEM OF INTEREST: Sustainable Technology in the Israeli Desert

Global Farmer NetworkSeptember 17, 2019

In the heart of the Israeli Negev desert, farmers are making the desert bloom, growing food sustainably with new solutions to water scarcity, food security and ...

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Let Africans Decide What is Best for Africa

Onyaole Patience KokuJuly 17, 2019

The statement just came to me: “Let Africans decide what is best for Africa!” A European “expert” had offered a different opinion. In his view, African farme...

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Mali: Farmer’s Access to Capital Key to Food Security, Job Creation

Amadou SidibeJanuary 30, 2019

Global Farmer Network member Amadou Sidibe from Mali was featured about a project he's involved with in his home country in West Africa. Growing Food in ...

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Time for Kenya Move Off the Brink and Lead with Agricultural Technology

Gilbert Arap BorMarch 31, 2017

Kenya is on the brink of embracing biotechnology in agriculture. The MIT Technology Review made the claim in October: “Kenya is thought to be on the brink of...

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Peace is Good for Food Security

Lydia SasuJuly 30, 2015

Born into a farming family where I witnessed my mother struggle to make enough money to feed us, I am pleased to learn that the world isn’t as hungry as it used...

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Kenya’s Main Obstacle to Food Security is Ignorance

Gilbert Arap BorJuly 16, 2015

As Africa falls behind the rest of the world on agricultural technology, Kenya is falling behind the rest of Africa, warned a group of scientists in Nairobi thi...

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WTO’s Future Again Questioned over Trade Facilitation Agreement

Ross KorvesSeptember 25, 2014

A new future for the WTO was acclaimed last December after the WTO Ministerial meeting in Bali, Indonesia approved a set of agricultural trade policy changes kn...

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Poland is Supporting Ukraine In Hopes of Food Security and Peace

Roman WarzechaMarch 20, 2014

The whole world is watching events unfold in Ukraine—and here in Poland, we’re paying especially close attention. Ukraine is our neighbor. We share a common ...

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Oxfam’s Approach To Food Security Is Broken

Reg ClauseJune 9, 2011

Six astonishing words: “The global food system is broken.” This radical claim, asserted in Oxfam’s latest report, takes for granted t...

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Mexican Frost Damage, Corn Imports and Food Security

Ross KorvesFebruary 24, 2011

An early February frost in northern Mexico’s winter crop area has led to a scramble to replant crops and shift supply contracts for corn to meet food n...

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Trade

Farmer’s Caught Between Unenforced Trade Agreements and Political Gamemanship

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

Broadband Access Vital for Rural America and the Economy

Technology

Let the Farmer Have a Voice

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