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Europe Needs an Open Dialogue About GMOs that Includes Farmers

Annechien ten Have MellemaFebruary 25, 2016

Here in Europe, we hear a lot of negative claims about GMOs. People don’t trust them, say the activist groups. Or they aren’t natural. Or they just enrich big c...

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California farmers invest water to feed people

Ted SheelyAugust 5, 2015

The worst thing about California’s drought is the suffering it has put on ordinary people. In many places, drinking wells have dried up. The crisis is so severe...

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With the Right Tools, Zimbabwe Can be an Agricultural Breadbasket

Nyasha MudukutiOctober 23, 2014

The world of your grandparents may seem utterly different from your own. Where I live, however, it looks like nothing has changed. I raise sorghum and maize ...

Agricultural TechnologyFood and Nutritional SecurityInfrastructure0 Comments 0

2012 – Rajesh Kumar, India

Global Farmer NetworkOctober 25, 2012

Rajesh Kumar, India - recipient of the 2012 Kleckner Trade and Technology Advancement Award. Farmers in the developing world must be allowed to embrace biot...

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2011 – Gilbert arap Bor, Kenya

Global Farmer NetworkNovember 3, 2011

Farmers in the developing world must participate in the global economy by embracing and using new technologies Des Moines, Iowa – Gilbert arap Bor ...

Kleckner Award6 Comments 0

Open Invitation to a Prince

Reg ClauseAugust 29, 2008

I’ve just read your recent interview with the Daily Telegraph--the one from earlier this month, in which you condemn agricultural biotechnology as an &ldq...

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Coexisting Abundance

Dean KlecknerFebruary 16, 2008

Does working the land wreck the land? "Some people think that it does, and believe that agriculture and environmentalism must forever battle each other. TheyÕve...

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Organic Original

Dean KlecknerFebruary 1, 2008

I was a teenage organic farmer."In the 1940s, when my father taught me how to work the land near Rudd, Iowa, we didnÕt use commercial fertilizers (it wasnÕt ava...

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U.S. Agricultural Exports by State

Ross KorvesJuly 6, 2007

The Economic Research Service (ERS) of USDA provides estimates of U.S. agricultural exports by state. They do not track actual shipments from the state of produ...

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Mexican Tortilla Crisis

Darrell McAlexanderFebruary 1, 2007

As an Iowa farmer who grows corn for the Mexican market, I’m disappointed that the press and some academics are unfairly suggesting that the growing demand for ...

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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

Europe Needs an Open Dialogue About GMOs that Includes Farmers

California farmers invest water to feed people

With the Right Tools, Zimbabwe Can be an Agricultural Breadbasket

2012 – Rajesh Kumar, India

2011 – Gilbert arap Bor, Kenya

Open Invitation to a Prince

Coexisting Abundance

Organic Original

U.S. Agricultural Exports by State

Mexican Tortilla Crisis