Building “Team Borlaug” Through The Global Farmer Network
By Mary Boote - CEO, Global Farmer Network For Norman Borlaug, it was always about the farmers. He loved to meet them, talk with them, work beside them. T...
Green Revolution
Celebrating India’s Miracle Crops: Past, Present and Future
Half a century is a long time, but that’s how long I’ve been thinking seriously about India’s struggle with food security—and how technology can help to solve i...
2014 in Review
In 2014, the farmers of Truth about Trade & Technology celebrated the centennial year of Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution. We also marked ...
Kenya Must Lift Ban on GM Imports: Allow Commercialization of GM Crops
United States President Barack Obama’s ringing endorsement of biotechnology in agriculture has the potential to inspire hearts and minds in Africa—and perhaps m...
To Indian Farmers and Farmers Around the World: Norman Borlaug is Our Hero
Norman Borlaug is my hero—and he’s a hero to a billion of my countrymen here in India as well. This week, we honor Borlaug’s centenary: He was born on March ...
Challenges and Opportunities of Farming in India
Cyclone Phailin smashed into the eastern coast of India on Sunday, leaving a path of death and destruction whose toll is still being calculated. The devastation...
India Must Listen to Its Farmers: An Indian Farmer’s Appeal to Access Biotechnology
Farming in India has reached a very crucial phase. In a scenario of rising consumption needs and aspirations, and dwindling or varying natural resources, it ha...
India Is Ready For A Gene Revolution
The fate of my nation depends on it. I’m old enough to remember India in the 1960s, when my country couldn’t feed itself. We had to import ...
Great Expectations
As a Portuguese farmer, I’m hoping that he will--specifically with respect to Europe and GM crops. Mr. Obama has the ear of Europeans. Pre-election pol...
Concentrate on Abundance
Perhaps you’re wondering what American biofuels have to do with the price of tea in China. To hear some pundits talk, you’d think that ethanol is the culprit...