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Archive for Category: "Guest Commentary"
Rebuild the African Breadbasket with the Power of Fertilizer and Promise of Biotechnology
Africa’s farmers must do better. The population of our continent continues to grow, but our ability to produce food remains stuck in the past. Experts say that global food production has to double by 2050 in order to meet demand–yet here in Africa, the average yield of grain crops hasn’t increased since the 1960s. There’s [...]
A Portuguese Farmer’s Request for the Freedom to Choose Technology That Helps Feed the World and Science-Based Decisions by the European Commission
We can buy it but we can’t grow it. That’s how crazy the European Union’s policies on biotech food have become. Regulators let us purchase livestock feed derived from genetically modified crops, but only if it’s produced abroad. We’re forbidden to grow these exact same plants on our own farms. It makes no sense, and [...]
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 the 31st day of October, focusing on a Philippine mother and her new-born. In Kenya, the Daily Nation newspaper highlighted a Kenyan mother and her newborn, also [...]
Three Billion Acres of GM Crops and Counting!
We don’t know exactly where it will happen, so there won’t be any fireworks or parades. It could be in my country of Brazil. It will almost certainly be in South America where an early planting season is now underway. We’re confident about the timing because Truth about Trade & Technology, an American non-profit group, [...]
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 of the region’s worst drought in years. The assistance shows that even in the hardest of hard times, the United States is a generous nation. As much as East Africa [...]
Greenpeace Declares War on Global Food Security
In July, Greenpeace and its allies launched a new round of aggression against biotech food, attacking sites in Australia and Germany. Earlier this year, they targeted the Philippines. Nobody knows when or where they’ll strike next. If we don’t halt their harmful ideology however, farmers, consumers, and the environment will pay a hefty price. The [...]
Stop the Madness: A Public Thank You For Correcting a Broken Trucking Promise
On July 6, the United States signed an agreement with Mexico that ends a vexing dispute over trade and trucks. It wipes out Mexican tariffs that have hurt potato farmers like me as well as many other Americans during the toughest economic times many of us have ever experienced. We already face enough challenges on [...]
Food Security Depends on the Truth of Science
The source of fatalities may be an organic farm in Germany or possibly seeds grown in Egypt. What we know for certain right now is that the solution to the problem of food-borne illness is technology—and that’s true whether we’re talking about advanced nations in Europe or developing countries, such as my own, in Asia [...]
A Kenyan’s Determination To Fight Malnutrition
We often associate food insecurity with a lack of calories. This is its classic and most obvious form. In the most extreme cases, a lack of calories can mean severe hunger or even starvation. Yet sometimes people get plenty of calories and not enough nutrients. This is a less obvious form of food insecurity. Some [...]
A Lenten Appeal for Biotechnology
As a practicing Catholic who farms in Kenya, I’m committed to growing as much food as possible. I see it as an economic necessity for my family as well as a moral obligation that I must uphold as a steward of the earth. That’s why I’d like to enjoy access to genetically modified seeds–a benefit [...]
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