20 Years of Success – Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2015 (ISAAA)
The 2015 annual report from the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) - the 20th anniversary of biotech crops being com...
South Africa
2015 – Lydia Sasu, Ghana
Lydia Sasu had a tough choice to make. While she was being honored with the Kleckner Trade & Technology Advancement Award in Des Moines, Iowa, she would be ...
Africa’s Farmers Want to Plant the Best Crops Science Can Offer
To many people around the world, the cassava is an exotic crop that they have never eaten. Or so they think. Yet anybody who has tasted tapioca pudding has prof...
Growing Optimism
Once, my farm was part of a war zone, just south of Johannesburg, South Africa. I had to be optimistic to drive a tractor through a minefield, as I did in the a...
Biotechnology is Making South Africa and the World Better
I used to be skeptical of GM crops. Then I saw what they can do. Now I’m a true believer: Biotechnology is a boon to farmers everywhere, most especially in the ...
We Must Remove the Landmines That Limit Access to Biotechnology in Africa
Back in the dark days of apartheid, many South African farmers like myself were forced to drive our tractors through fields full of landmines as we worked hard ...
African Farmers Will Help Feed the Billions
The world now has 7 billion people in it but the population growth didn’t stop there. Demographers at the U.N. Population Fund said the big milestone came on th...
Breaking the Cycle of Food Shortages in Africa With Fertilizer and Technology
The humanitarian aid will reach 4.6 million people. They need it: Over the last three months, almost 30,000 East African children have perished as victims ...
Trade Facilitation
When the WTO negotiations chairs released on April 21 their respective documents on progress in the talks, the reports on agriculture and non-agricultural ma...
Easing hunger pangs
Mail & Guardian (South Africa)
By Jennifer Susan Chiriga
July 28, 2009www.mg.co.za At no time in the history of the region has the importance of the sm...