Crops & Food
We eat to live. Humans use approximately 11% of Earth’s land for the cultivation of crops for food, but also for clothing, medicine and biofuels. Globally, major crops include sugarcane, pumpkin, maize (corn), wheat, rice, cassava, soybeans, hay, potatoes and cotton.
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Trump v Biden: Where do the candidates stand on GMOs and other key food issues?
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Could genetically engineered, nitrogen-fixing crops replace polluting synthetic fertilizers?
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GMO misinformation proliferates on social media. What happens when it’s shared by experts?
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Viewpoint: Global food security threatened by Europe’s anti-GMO ‘food bullying’
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Roundup glyphosate weedkiller responsible for the decline in Monarch butterflies? Media and advocacy groups badly misreport study
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GMO soy permit revoked by Mexico, but illegal planting expected to continue
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Viewpoint: How the ‘Food Justice’ movement reinforces inequality while doing little to improve health outcomes
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Podcast: Neuralink brain chips; Flu vaccines during COVID; US farm system unraveling?
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Canada’s demand for GMO Impossible Burger grows as consumers cut meat from diets
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Podcast: Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue interviews GLP’s Jon Entine on feeding the world sustainably through biotech innovation and challenging the ‘myth of organics’
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Viewpoint: India shouldn’t let activists derail field trials of insect-resistant GMO eggplant
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Anti-GMO activists move to block Bt insect-resistant eggplant field trials in India
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Insect-resistant cowpea demonstrations across Nigeria aim to build farmer support for GMO crop
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Seafood of the future: Could lab-grown fish replace its wild and farmed relatives?
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