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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Don’t Fear GM Crops, Europe!
The following is an edited excerpt. Researchers have genetically modified crop plants to grow well in harsh environments where conventional ...
The precautionary principle stops GM eggplants in the Philippines
The Court of Appeals in the Philippines recently put a stop to field tests of insect-resistant Bt eggplant crops, preventing ...
Philippines: Court stops field testing of GM eggplant
The following is an edited excerpt. The Court of Appeals has stopped the nationwide field testing of genetically modified eggplants ...
GM foods and Jewish law: A Rabbi’s perspective
The following is an edited excerpt. As our knowledge of our world broadens and through science we come to new ...
Debunking ‘the big lie’ about genetically engineered crops
The following is an edited excerpt. Anti-GM activists will be out in full force on Saturday (25 May) for the ...
BASF, Monsanto to launch drought tolerant GM corn in 2014
The following is an edited excerpt. BASF and Monsanto plan to commercially launch a drought-tolerant variety of genetically modified corn ...
Gorillas and the future of crop biotechnology
The following article is an edited excerpt. There are some really cool improvements coming along in several crops that have ...
Indonesia: Drought-resistant sugarcane plantation being developed
The following is an edited excerpt. The National Genetically Modified Product Biosafety Commission (KKHPRG) recently approved the first genetically-altered sugarcane ...
Hungary’s anti-science regime destroys all GMO corn fields
Hungary has destroyed 1000 acres of maize found to have been grown with genetically modified seeds. Unlike many European Union ...
Pesticide use is up — have biotech crops backfired?
What does increased pesticide use really say about the success or failure of pest-resistant biotech crops? ...
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 ...
Australia: “GMO-free” certification launched
The following is an edited excerpt. A new certification body for genetically modified organism free (GMO-free) foods has been launched ...
Nutritionally enhanced biotech soybeans blocked by activists
The following is an edited excerpt. Monsanto has joined forces with DSM to commercialize a genetically engineered soybean oil rich ...
Pathogen genome tracks Irish potato famine back to its roots
The following is an edited excerpt. The great potato famine of the 1840s was a defining event in Ireland’s recent ...
Conversion of an anti-GMO activist
The following is an edited excerpt. It's my 200th blog post and I do have much to celebrate. The record of how ...
Where in the world are GMOs?
This interactive Google Map shows a variety of genetically modified crops in the pipeline around the world ...
Detective story: How genomics found the culprit in Ireland’s Great Famine
In an impressive bit of genomic sleuthing, researchers have used dried potato leaves to decode the genome of the fungus-like ...
Vandana Shiva: “March against Monsanto is a march for freedom”
The following is an edited excerpt. On May 25, 2013, there will be a worldwide March against Monsanto. In this ...
Bryan Walsh: Modifying the endless debate over genetically modified crops
The following is an edited excerpt. I’ll admit—I’ve never quite understood the obsession surrounding genetically modified (GM) crops. To environmentalist ...
UK Telegraph: Promise of GE to feed the world is overblown
The following is an edited excerpt. Genetic modification has so far mainly been confined to developing crops that tolerate herbicides ...
Uganda: Genetic modification in crops a natural process of survival
The following is an edited excerpt. For organisms to adapt to changing environment, they at times undergo genetic modifications. Naturally, ...
GE foods have to take two steps to gain approval in Europe
The following is an edited excerpt. The Frankenfood brawl has never been about science and safety but trust and choice, ...
Trade barriers holding back the adoption of GM crops in East Africa
The following is an edited excerpt. Agricultural biotechnology holds great promise in contributing to Africa’s socioeconomic development. This is confirmed ...
BIO: It’s not too late to change the conversation on GMOs
The following is an edited excerpt. When it comes to winning hearts and minds on the merits of genetically engineered ...
Anti-GMO European farmers ignore science in favor of superstition— or so they say
The following is an edited excerpt. Next month, the US and Europe would like to make some progress in tearing ...
At trade talks, U.S., E.U. ready for fight on genetically modified crops
The following is an edited excerpt. Many Europeans see American farming and its reliance on genetically modified crops as more ...
UK and Spanish scientists: European GE policy needs modification
The following is an edited excerpt. Writing in the journal Trends in Plant Science, scientists from Spain and the United Kingdom ...
