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Viewpoint: Gene editing and climate change — Aquaculture’s vulnerability to high temperatures, parasites and contagion could be solved with biotech
Aquaculture is a diverse sector with about 600 cultured species, as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United ...
Rice enrichment: GMO crops are coming to the Philippines. Experts are optimistic
Last year, the Philippines approved Golden Rice–a genetically modified variant of rice–to combat malnutrition and vitamin A deficiency in the ...
Red sea bream and tiger puffer: Japan approves two new gene edited fish for sale
In October and November 2021, two genome-edited fishes were approved for commercial sale in Japan. Aiming to revitalize Japanese aquaculture, ...
Greenpeace denounces Philippines’ approval of nutrition-enhanced GMO Golden Rice
Greenpeace Philippines called on Agriculture Secretary William D. Dar to reverse the Bureau of Plant Industry’s (BPI) decision to approve ...
GM Golden Rice commercialization in Philippines ‘far from reality,’ may be delayed until 2023
At a virtual news briefing on [Nov. 23], PhilRice Healthier Rice Project Leader Dr. Renante L. Ordonio said everyone has ...
Bureaucracy hampers GMO Bt insect-resistant cotton approval in the Philippines, despite widespread demand from farmers
The delay in the approval of the propagation of genetically modified (GM) cotton is hampering the revival and revitalization of ...
Viewpoint: Proposed Philippines biotech authority could streamline GMO crop approvals, help farmers battle hunger
According to the biotech timeline prepared by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), the modern biotechnology ...
Philippine government sets up new inter-agency group to regulate GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Five government agencies will ...
Filipino farmers appeal ban on Bt eggplant
Farmers have urged the Filipino Supreme Court (SC) to junk the writ of kalikasan against Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) eggplant, saying that ...
Philippines can become chicken exporter if it adopts high-yielding GM corn
Philippines stands to secure a niche in the global chicken-export market if it can reduce feed prices to global levels ...
Filipino scientists forced to bring petition against GM field trial ban to Supreme Court
There has been talk about the impending legal battle concerning a petition filed by scientist-researchers from the University of the Philippines ...
Greenpeace calls on Philippines to scrap Golden Rice, claims it provides no vitamin benefits
Insisting on the potential threats of GMOs to human health and the environment, environmental groups urged Philippine Agriculture Secretary Proceso ...
Biotech crops risky to consume, says former pro-GMO scientist
A decade after retiring from his job as a research scientist at Agriculture Canada, Dr. Thierry Vrain, a former promoter ...
Farmer-leader backs wider propagation of biotech corn
The following is an excerpt. The Philippines continues to be a leading player in the full commercialization of biotech food ...
Drought in US creates more interest in biotech corn
AMERICAN farmers continue to demonstrate unprecedented confidence in biotech or genetically modified crops, Dr. Clive James, chairman of International Service ...