Green Revolution

Building “Team Borlaug” Through The Global Farmer Network

Mary BooteApril 20, 2019

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...

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Celebrating India’s Miracle Crops: Past, Present and Future

V. RavichandranJanuary 5, 2017

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...

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2014 in Review

Mary BooteDecember 31, 2014

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 ...

Agricultural TechnologyBiofortificationFood and Nutritional SecurityFood LabelingFood SafetyInfrastructureNAFTA, Other AgreementsTrans Pacific PartnershipTransAtlantic Trade & Investment PartnershipWorld Trade Organization0 Comments 0

Kenya Must Lift Ban on GM Imports: Allow Commercialization of GM Crops

Gilbert Arap BorMay 8, 2014

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...

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To Indian Farmers and Farmers Around the World: Norman Borlaug is Our Hero

V. RavichandranMarch 26, 2014

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 ...

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Challenges and Opportunities of Farming in India

V. RavichandranOctober 17, 2013

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...

Agricultural TechnologyCrop Protection & DiseaseFood and Nutritional SecurityInfrastructure2 Comments 0

India Must Listen to Its Farmers: An Indian Farmer’s Appeal to Access Biotechnology

V. RavichandranDecember 6, 2012

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...

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India Is Ready For A Gene Revolution

V. RavichandranJanuary 13, 2011

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 ...

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Great Expectations

Maria Gabriela CruzJanuary 23, 2009

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...

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Concentrate on Abundance

Dean KlecknerMay 8, 2008

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...

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Trade

Three Voices. One Message. Ratify USMCA Now.

Farmer’s Caught Between Unenforced Trade Agreements and Political Gamemanship

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

Technology

California Can Keep the Water Flowing

Item of Interest: Let’s trust African scientists in war on hunger

Sharing A GM Technology Testimony From India to Uganda