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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
International Year of the Pulses: An Important Crop for India and the World
Pulses are a very important crop for India. They are an important source of protein, grow quickly, generate good profits for farmers, and contribute to agricultural and environmental sustainability.
November 08, 2021 11:30 AM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
The Power of Local Solutions to Address Global Challenges
In the EU, unfortunately, regulators have blocked farmers from planting the best seeds, developed with science-based gene technologies that allow producers to grow more food on less land than ever before.
November 07, 2021 07:00 AM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
We Must Learn From Sri Lanka’s Man-Made Organic Agriculture Disaster
The lesson is to trust science and technology so that its farmers and citizens stop paying a price they can’t afford.
October 24, 2021 07:00 AM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
Farmers Are Using Technology to Adapt to a Changing Climate
Rather than panicking about an environmental doomsday, let’s embrace the ability of technology and the willingness of farmers to make our world a better place.
October 10, 2021 07:00 AM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
I Am an Activist FOR Food
As a farmer, I’m always thinking about how new technologies can create a more resilient food system—but because of colonial mindsets, I continue to encounter resistance to this idea.
July 13, 2021 03:34 PM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
Innovation and Technology in Agriculture Has No Boundaries
We need to break free of defeating mindsets that limit our ability to thrive and gain access to liberating farm technologies. The scope of technology in agriculture has no boundaries.
May 02, 2021 07:00 AM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
Agroecology as a Choice, Not Coercion
Beware of this buzzword “agroecology": It has the potential to work like a buzzsaw that rips common sense into sawdust.
April 25, 2021 07:00 AM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
Regenerative Agriculture as an Agent of Positive Change
Earth Day is now upon us—it arrives next week on April 22—and farmers are marking the occasion by sharing how regenerative agriculture has improved their operations.
April 18, 2021 07:00 AM
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Global Farmer Network
Opinion
Mexico’s Self-Defeating War on Safe Technologies
President Lopez Obrador doesn’t seem to care whom these prohibitions harm. I wish he’d see us as allies in achieving food security---to meet the challenge, we need access to the world’s technology.
February 14, 2021 07:00 AM
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Global Farmer Network
$100 Ideas
Time to Reject the Hysteria and Embrace the Science
Farmers have used glyphosate safely for decades, but in recent years anti-GMO activists have tried to target the product - aided by a sensationalist media - because it often works in harmony with biotechnology.
November 17, 2020 07:44 PM
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