DR. LAL ON SOIL HEALTH AND FOOD SECURITY
As a leading expert in soil science and the recipient of the 2020 World Food Prize, Dr. Rattan Lal believes soil must be protected, restored and managed judicio...
Food Security
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...
Benefits of crop biotech life-changing
Bill Horan is a #biotech #foodhero---his #foodhero profile is found on the CropLife International website. Bill farms in Iowa and is a member of the Global Farm...
GIVING STRENGTH TO THE FARMER
Shekhar Bhadsavle is a farmer from India. Agriculture is here to solve two important problems in the world, climate change and hunger. Shekhar talks about how t...
Sasu selected as 2020 Ghana Woman of Courage
Global Farmer Network member Lydia Sasu is the recipient of the U.S. Embassy's 2020 Ghana Woman of Courage Award. For decades, Lydia has championed the rights o...
A Promising Response of Science to Face Challenges and Better Feed the World
Most of Argentina's major agriculture areas---including those of our neighbors in Paraguay and southern Brazil---are suffering from drought. Its intensity range...
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 ...
6 Post-Pandemic Food Predictions
Vulnerabilities of the supply chain, exposed during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, have heightened concern regarding consumers' access to high-quality food. Six...
Farm sale marks start of no-till venture
Gobal Farmer network member 'No-Till Bill' Crabtree is selling his farm in Australia and planning a move to Africa to share his knowledge on no-till farming. He...
Seeing is Believing: Modern Technology Delivers Change
They say a picture is worth 1,000 words.
A video of my farm on social media has attracted more than 50,000 views---and counting.
It uses the incredible power ...