The U. S. Grains Council has a delegation on a trip to Guatemala this week and RFD Radio’s Tricia Braid-Terry is there on location. I’m not sure if you can tell which one of these Guatemala Hooters girls is Tricia but she wants us to know that she’s surviving. She also mentioned something about salsa music. You know they’ve got …
International Green Week Trade Show Opens
Janet Kanters has contributed another story from Green Week in Berlin. This one is on the huge food trade show. I’ve wandered around in it before and it really is a place where you can eat your way around the world in one location. The photo is courtesy of Janet too. An astounding 1,600 exhibitors from 56 countries are presenting …
Global Food Security Theme of International Green Week
Our Green Week eyes and ears have reported in again today from Berlin. Here’s a story on what’s happening from Janet Kanters: During International Green Week (IGW) in Berlin, ministers of agriculture and leading representatives of agriculture and the food industry from all over the world will be discussing global solutions. German industry is using the Green Week as a …
Nokia To Deliver Ag Info To Mobile Phones
Nokia is bringing a whole new dimension to the idea of mobile information delivery. They just announced a plan to bring agricultural information and education services to non-urban consumers in emerging markets with a service called Nokia Life Tools. Can the United States be far behind? Or are there companies already delivering ag information to mobile phones here in America? …
Truth About Trade and Technology Global Roundtable
For the third year, the Truth About Trade and Technology (TATT) held a Global Farmer to Farmer Roundtable in conjunction with the World Food Prize events. Over 20 farmers from as many nations participated in the event this year to discuss biotech agriculture in their countries, according to TATT chairman Dean Kleckner. “Either how we’re using it and here’s what …
Participating in World Food Prize Events
One of the participants in the 2008 World Food Prize symposium who caught my eye yesterday was Dr. Gale Buchanan, USDA Under Secretary for Research Education and Economics. I saw him sitting in on every session I attended, so I caught up with him for an interview about the event and what he thought. This year’s World Food Prize winners …
World Food Day
Today is World Food Day in case you didn’t know it. This is a FAO-organized event held every year. I applaud their desire to bring attention to the plight of the hungry around the world. However, they’ve been taken over by a bunch of wackos who are employing extreme scare tactics to advance an agenda that is seriously out of …
Conversations at World Food Prize
Panel discussions at the World Food Prize Norman Borlaug Symposium in Des Moines are called “conversations” and one on Wednesday focused on the “Promises and Challenges of Next-Generation Science and Technology.” Among the presenters was Brazil’s former minister of agriculture Roberto Rodrigues, co-chair of the International Biofuels Commission who made a very compelling case that both food and fuel production …
Blog Action Day and World Food Prize
Today has been “Blog Action Day” and the theme this year is poverty. Coincidentally, that is the basic theme here in Des Moines at the World Food Prize Norman Borlaug Symposium – since the key focus is on feeding the hungry. So, I actually decided to participate in the event this year – both on AgWired and Domestic Fuel, since …
World Food Dialogue for Solutions
Even though the word “crisis” is being used liberally here at the World Food Prize Norman Borlaug Symposium, there is a great deal of focus on solutions to feeding a growing global population. The “Global Agricultural Crisis of the 21st Century” was the topic of the keynote speaker for the symposium kickoff, Sir Gordon Conway, who is chief scientific adviser …