Agricultural Regs & Ethics
Talking Biotech: Monsanto’s Fred Perlak talks efficacy, safety of insect resistant GMO crops in agriculture; Kevin Folta answers questions about use of insect resistant GMO
Monsanto scientist, insecticide resistant crops expert Fred Perlak stops by to talk safety, efficacy; Folta addresses Bt concerns from listeners ...
How can GMO labels compromise farmer needs with consumer wants?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Even if consumers shrug ...
Genetic engineering in Africa 2: Continent cautiously embraces biotechnology
Part two, of a two-part series discussing the status of GMO crops in Africa , covers how countries across the ...
Hybrid seeds part of ‘green evolution’ that is improving agriculture in Africa
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. African agriculture is improving ...
Kenya conducting field trials on GMO maize, sorghum, cassava, cotton
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The National Biosafety Authority ...
To streamline commercialiazation, Uganda considering unique system for regulating GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Biotechnology is one of ...
American Farm Bureau disappointed by failure of bill to preempt state GMO labeling laws
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The votes weren't there ...
Genetic engineering in Africa 1: Banana, cassava can be rescued
Part one, of a two-part series discussing the status of GMO crops in Africa , covers the potential crops that ...
Can food policy reform benefit health, environment, economy?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The nation’s food system ...
Are other crop improvement techniques overtaking GMOs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. This may come as ...
Monsanto ‘welcome to leave India,’ government says it will develop own GMO seeds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. U.S. seed company Monsanto ...
Vermont farmers concerned about soil, water, livestock–That’s why they use GMO seeds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Why do the farmers ...
‘Unscientific’ moratorium on GMO eggplant in India in seventh year
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. February 10 has increasingly ...
A bill to block GMO labeling fails key Senate vote
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A bill that would ...
Senate votes on SmartLabel for GMO labeling, would preempt Vermont’s mandatory standard
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [T]he ...
Michigan Sen Stabenow opposes SmartLabel bill after fundraiser with Big Organic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Four organic-food industry executives ...
Downside trade-offs of reducing glyphosate use
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Some of the costs of ...
Whole Foods to require GMO labels on all products in store by 2018
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Whole Foods has announced ...
Did Monsanto doom GMOs in public mind by tying them to pesticides?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . .[W]ho thinks ...
Will India’s cotton revolution be undone by government control of GMO seed royalties?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It was March 26, ...
Jonathan Lundgren says USDA is censoring him for criticizing neonicotinoids: What’s the truth?
Activists see Lundgren as the next Percy Schmeiser — a critic of conventional agriculture whose views are suppressed in a ...
Counterfeit agricultural chemicals may be contributing to low crop yields in Ghana
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The influx of fake ...
Organic cotton clothing company blames GMOs for Indian farmer suicides in underwear ad
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “We want to make ...
Why have GMO foods failed to gain approval in India?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a research laboratory ...
CRISPR’s gene-edited crops might provide an opportunity to revamp biotech regulations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Thanks to entirely specious fears about ...
Zimbabwe’s rejection of food aid containing GMOs worrisome for country’s poor, hungry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. My country’s government would ...
CRISPR promises to revive endangered species, introduce new pets
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Until now, researchers had ...
