Agricultural Regs & Ethics

Stakeholders including members of the National Assembly have berated President Goodluck Jonathan over his inability to assent into law till ...

No person would choose organic food over conventional food on objective grounds to address regional needs or world hunger. Its ...

As the 2012 Farm Bill continues to take shape in the halls of the United States Congress, the immense influence ...

Spanish researchers have discovered the complete mitochondrial DNA of an individual that lived 7000 years ago. This discovery is the ...

Today a new revolution is knocking at Africa's door-agricultural biotechnology. It promises to do for agriculture what mobile technology has ...

The future of GM crops in Britain will be a key subject for discussion during a meeting between government ministers ...

The European Commission is contributing more than €5 million (6.5 million dollars) towards the Benefit-sharing Fund of the International Treaty ...

Britain must place a renewed focus on agricultural research including GM projects, or risk falling behind other countries like Brazil, ...

Just Label It, the national coalition for genetically engineered (GE) food labeling, urged Americans to fight special interests in Washington ...

In a bid to eradicate pesticides from farming in India, the Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture (ASHA) has started ...

BBC Radio 4 reported in its headlines this morning that the Agriculture Biotechnology Council had published a new report "Going ...

This policy brief, published by the UK's Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), examines the potential benefits and challenges ...

A form of genetically modified grass is being cited as the likely culprit in the sudden death of a herd ...

Executive Director at the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), Dr. Denis Kyetere, has said improved seeds, especially by genetic modification ...

What would it take to break the impasse on GM crops? That's a problem that has been exercising minds at ...

Anti-agricultural biotech NGOs and activists raise a common and familiar set of fears in the campaign to get biotech foods ...

The American Medical Association House of Delegates adopted a formal statement in opposition to the mandatory labeling of genetically engineered, ...

The House of Representatives voted this week to allow farmers to grow genetically modified crops from Monsanto while any lawsuits ...

Agricultural scientists on Thursday urged the government for policy interventions and promoting biotechnology and genetically-modified crops to meet the challenges ...

In southern Australia, the soil there is some of the driest in all of the world. To cope with drought ...

Sweet and biomass sorghum would meet the need for next-generation biofuels to be environmentally sustainable, easily adopted by producers and ...

The debate over regulating genetically modified crops in India is back after two years of silence that followed the moratorium ...

Biotech giants Monsanto were awarded a victory by lawmakers in Washington this week after a congressional panel voted to let ...

Last week I wrote about the anti-science campaign being waged by opponents of the use of genetically modified organisms in ...

One of the most popular biofuels crops is giant miscanthus (Miscanthus × giganteus). This fast-growing hybrid is unable to produce ...

One of the hallmarks of the organic food movement is a wholesale rejection of much of the agricultural technology – ...

One of the hallmarks of the organic food movement is a wholesale rejection of much of the agricultural technology – ...