The recent revolutions in Libya and Syria offer a bitter lesson: to generate outside intervention against a dictator, armed rebellion is…
African agriculture is at the crossroads. Persistent food shortages are now being compounded by new threats arising from climate change.…
The world food outlook for 2013 looks grim as a result of the worst drought in the United States in 50 years. The prospects of a repeat of…
Moments before Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s newly elected president, took the stage to address tens of thousands of jubilant supporters in…
Critics of President Obama and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard are rarely in alliance, but it happened this week as Egypt’s Mohammed Morsi was…
I am very proud to receive an honorary degree from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT). Being my first degree…
There will be no dramatic moment of closure on the era of Muhammad Hosni al-Sayyid Mubarak, the man who ruled and misruled Egypt for 30…
This is hardly a week when we need to be reminded that judges and, in particular, Supreme Court justices, have a profound impact on…
There is an urgent need to create a new generation of innovation-oriented agricultural that efficiently bring together agricultural…
Egypt’s decision last month to stop selling natural gas to Israel could be a harbinger of increasingly confrontational Egyptian-Israeli…