Innovation. Collaboration. Supported farmers. These are some of the common themes presented in “Building a Dynamic FAO for a Better World,” the vision of QU Dongyu, Ph.D., general director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, as he starts his second four-year term. In...
Tom McKinney remembers only once during his childhood when it rained a full 2 1/2 inches in one rainfall event on his family’s farm in Indiana. Born in 1958, he started helping his dad by picking up sticks and other tasks by about 1965. Today, the corn and soybean farmer says it’s not uncommon to...
Agriculture was not often explicitly mentioned in the meeting A.G. Kawamura recently attended with leaders representing different major groups of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). However, agriculture—and the fundamental need for it—underscored many of the conversations. With the...
An Agricultural Renaissance, led by innovative and entrepreneurial farmers, ranchers and foresters constructing sustainable, profitable and resilient systems that lay the foundation for a world of abundance on many scales capable of producing nutritious food, feed, fiber, clean energy, healthy ecosystems, quality livelihoods, and strong rural economies.