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I thought I might like to farm. But I didn't know the economics of it. Teachers basically steered me away from it.

I'm super supportive of locally grown foods and farmers. Here in L.A., I know all of my farmers markets and go there weekly.

For families, for parents that don't want to feed their kids GMOs, in the private marketplace there has grown up an abundant market.

I'm one of nine sisters. My parents were dairy farmers in Wisconsin. My father didn't believe in girls doing farm work. Girls did housework, and he hired young men to do farm work. I would have preferred to be outside.

Empowering small farmers to increase productivity, improve crop quality and access reliable markets is critical to addressing global hunger and poverty.

Farmers the world over, in dealing with costs, returns and risks, are calculating economic agents. Within their small, individual, allocative domain, they are fine-tuning entrepreneurs, tuning so subtly that many experts fail to recognize how efficient they are.

I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.

The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.

One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.

New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.