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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Africa: The next frontier for GM crops?
Recent forecasts indicate that the current century could be the hungriest on record, with the global population estimated to increase ...
Organics activist Ronnie Cummins lashes out at biotech industry, urges California labeling initiative
Ronnie Cummins, an organics activist, vilifies GMOs and the biotech industry in his op ed. Cummins claims that the food ...
Activists accuse Monsanto of trying to “end run” GMO restrictions
Activists accuse Monsanto of a "quiet coup" regarding various activities, including the 2012 Farm Bill, which activists claim will allow ...
Dietary recommendations based on genetics seen as more credible than general dietary guidance
An increasing number of consumers regard dietary recommendations based on genetics as being more credible than general dietary advice, according ...
Wal-Mart to sell genetically modified sweet corn
Rejecting entreaties from consumers and activists, Wal-Mart says it plans to sell a new crop of genetically modified sweet corn ...
Anti biotech activists claim that “GM ‘cure’ threatens to be much worse than any agricultural disease”
“I KNOW an old lady who swallowed a fly” — we all know the song from our childhood, but what ...
California gene-altered food campaigns draw $4.3 million
A campaign to make California the first state to require labeling of genetically modified foods has raised $2.3 million in ...
Greenpeace activists in costly GM protest
Two women who broke into CSIRO and destroyed a research crop of genetically-modified wheat with whipper-snippers have cost Greenpeace more ...
New technique allows plant breeders to introduce crop traits without access to full genome of crops
A new technique will allow plant breeders to introduce valuable crop traits even without access to the full genome sequence ...
Monsanto wins big award in a biotech patent case
A federal jury awarded $1 billion in damages to the crop biotechnology leader Monsanto on Wednesday, saying that its arch ...
To label or not to label? The California GMO labeling initiative gears up for the big vote
The anticipation builds as voters prepare to head to the polls for November’s election. And for those voters in California, ...
Global agricultural biotechnology market growing at a rapid pace
The global market for agricultural biotechnology was $13.7 billion in 2011 and is estimated to grow to $14.4 billion in ...
GM crops lead to genetically modified tires
High yielding, genetically modified crops have transformed the economics of U.S. farming. But they also pack an unexpected punch: Their ...
Ireland: Protest over GM potatoes grows
It was reported last week that Ireland's Environmental Protection Agency had approved the trial of a genetically modified potato crop ...
Can genetics improve ethanol production?
A California company with a stake owned by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln announced it has discovered a yeast gene that ...
Swedish agricultural and food co-operative shuts feed line after GM rapemeal found
Lantmannen highlighted the severity of the European Union's opposition to genetically modified foods by revealing that it had closed down ...
Tel Aviv University researcher says plants can see, smell, feel, and taste
In his new book What a Plant Knows (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and his articles in Scientific American, Prof. Daniel ...
Bananas and genetic engineering: Past, present and future
Scientists are fighting to protect the hundreds of bananas and plantains people eat around the world from a blizzard of ...
Ireland: Angry reaction to GM potatoes go-ahead
Top names from the food, restaurant, and tourism sectors have sharply criticised the Environmental Protection Agency for potentially destroying Ireland’s ...
Philippines: GMO trials to continue
Field trials and commercializing genetically engineered crops to address food security and raise farmer income will continue to be pursued ...
GM crop efficacy may be jeopardized by pest mutations
Genetic mutations in pests that allow them to develop resistance to genetically-modified (GM) cropsmay be much more diverse in field ...
EPA approves standardized set of controls for GM research
The Environmental Protection Authority has approved two applications by a group of New Zealand universities, Crown Research Institutes and independent ...
Ireland: Green light for GM potatoes test
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has given the go-ahead for a genetically modified blight-resistant potato crop to be tested on ...
Two-thirds in Britain support GM crop testing
Public opinion in Britain has turned in favor of allowing experiments on genetically modified crops, according to a ComRes survey ...
EU science advisor: Policy shouldn’t trump science regarding GMO’s
Politicians sometimes shy away from science, but they should be clear about why they reject scientific evidence in future, the ...
Commentary: What are the consequences of labeling GM food?
Genetically modified organisms in agriculture have been a source of controversy since their introduction in the mid-1990s. On the one ...
New book on ‘Darwinian Agriculture’ explains how evolution can improve agriculture
The largest drought in 50 years has severely damaged much of the nation's "corn belt" and is threatening the viability ...
