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The Global Farmer Network are farmers committed to inserting their voice and perspective in the global dialogue regarding food and nutritional security.

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Opinion
Greenhouse Technology Can Help Feed Africa
Greenhouses change the farming equation. They protect crops from weather while admitting sunlight. Farmers supply water, fertilizer as needed and crops flourish in locations where they would otherwise shrivel and die.
May 08, 2022 07:00 AM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
A Call to Kenya Government To Focus on Skyrocketing Fertilizer Expense and Do Something!
When farmers use less fertilizer crops grow less food. That’s an iron law of agronomics. Now it combines with an iron law of economics: When farmers grow less food, the cost of feeding families spirals out of control.
March 13, 2022 07:07 AM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
Forget the Propaganda: Come Visit Our Farms
This is what the New York Times propaganda series refuses to understand: Farmers work for everyone as we grow the food, feed, fiber and fuel the world needs.
February 27, 2022 07:00 AM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
The Four M’s of Precision Agriculture
Each of the four M’s are verbs—action words—and they represent the actions that farmers everywhere must take as we strive for sustainable food production in the 2020s and beyond.
February 20, 2022 07:00 AM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
A Fish Story: Technology in Aquaculture Feeds People And Protects the Environment
I recognized that a simple app on a mobile phone would transform fish farming. Improvements in markets and technology—driven by tools such as the AquaRech app—can help Kenyans transform fish farming.
February 06, 2022 07:00 AM
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Opinion
When Pigs Fly and Lives are Saved
I’m tempted to think that without the advent and acceptance of GM crops, we wouldn’t now stand at the threshold of a new branch of medicine involving organs harvested from gene edited pigs.
January 23, 2022 07:00 AM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
Time to rethink genetically modified wheat?
As a wheat producer, I will be watching developments in Argentina and Brazil closely—and hope they lead to a better future for farmers, consumers, and everyone.
January 09, 2022 07:00 AM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
A Farmers’ Vision of Hope for Africa
Agriculture is an ancient activity bound by tradition and habit, but today farming doesn’t mean doing things the way they’ve always been done. It means adapting to change and taking advantage of new technologies.
January 02, 2022 07:00 AM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
I’m a Conservation Farmer Who Kidnaps Carbon for Good
For many years, climate activists have criticized agriculture and farmers as part of the climate change problem, ultimately determining laws that inhibit our work. Yet we are in fact a part of the solution.
December 05, 2021 07:00 AM
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Opinion
Technology Solves India’s Stubble Burning Problem
It’s time to set the record straight on Indian farmers and stubble burning. We must go beyond the finger pointing and propose constructive solutions.
November 21, 2021 07:00 AM
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