South Africa

20 Years of Success – Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2015 (ISAAA)

Global Farmer NetworkApril 13, 2016

The 2015 annual report from the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) - the 20th anniversary of biotech crops being com...

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2015 – Lydia Sasu, Ghana

Global Farmer NetworkDecember 18, 2015

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 ...

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Africa’s Farmers Want to Plant the Best Crops Science Can Offer

Gilbert Arap BorSeptember 25, 2014

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...

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Growing Optimism

Motlatsi MusiJune 26, 2014

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...

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Biotechnology is Making South Africa and the World Better

Eve NtseoaneFebruary 27, 2014

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 ...

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We Must Remove the Landmines That Limit Access to Biotechnology in Africa

Motlatsi MusiNovember 21, 2012

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 ...

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African Farmers Will Help Feed the Billions

Gilbert Arap BorDecember 27, 2011

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...

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Breaking the Cycle of Food Shortages in Africa With Fertilizer and Technology

Gilbert Arap BorAugust 25, 2011

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 ...

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Trade Facilitation

Ross KorvesApril 28, 2011

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...

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Easing hunger pangs

July 28, 2009

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...

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Trade

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