Tips For President Kenyatta’s “Big 4 Agenda” For Kenya
Just as cooking a good meal takes the right ingredients, Kenya’s “Big Four Agenda” needs the right ingredients of advanced science and technology, led by GMO se...
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Cornell Award Honors Nigerian GFN Member
Global Farmer Network member Patience Koku from Nigeria recently was the worthy recipient of The Cornell Alliance for Science Farmer of the Year award. Congrat...
The Power of a Farmer’s Story
Christmas is a season for stories. We tell tales about the Nativity and the three kings. We also laugh about the time when Uncle Klaus wore the awful sweater to...
Uruguay Steps Up With Other Countries To Support Innovative Technology
People eat food every day, but many of them have no idea where their food comes from. Even fewer understand how farmers are challenged to produce it. That’s...
An Island Farmer’s Perspective: Technology Matters
On my island here in the Philippines, farmers still use water buffalo to plow their fields. In the Camotes Islands—three little islands that sit at the hear...
Video: “Farmers Innovate By Tradition” – TEDxRovigo
TEDx Talks - Published on Oct 17, 2017 Translated from Italian: Are we able to innovate our traditions? What is tradition for us today, for our grandparen...
On the Brink of Innovative Ag Technology Acceptance: A Kenyan Farmer’s Perspective
Farmers have good years and bad years. Here in Kenya, however, the good years never have seemed quite as good as they should be and the bad years have felt wors...
The Consequences When Ag Technology is Withheld: A Farmer’s Perspective
How much would your life change if suddenly the government were to ban mobile phones? It would alter everything, from how you work to how you communicate with ...
Crop Biotech 3.0: A Farmer’s Perspective
Here in New Zealand, we did not participate in the GE Gene Revolution. Farmers like me see an advantage in making sure that we do not miss the next one. You...
Coming to Store Shelves Soon, Bioengineered (BE) Labels
To BE or not to BE? That is one of the questions farmers began to face last week, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture published its proposed rules for th...