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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GLP Podcast: Will we ever solve the obesity crisis? Science writer Mark Schatzker
Americans are getting heavier and experts aren't sure what to do about it. Cutting fat and carbs out of our ...
Gene editing crops: Pros and cons
There are few food-related areas of discussion more emotive than that of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Public debate often takes ...
Organic fresh strawberries potentially linked to hepatitis outbreak in US and Canada
The US Food and Drug Administration is investigating a potential link between a hepatitis A outbreak and fresh organic strawberries. The FDA ...
Part 1: Viewpoint — Anti-GMO activists conjure up new scare messages as their influence wanes
It's been ten years of downhill sledding for advocacy groups and activists campaigning to throttle the burgeoning biotechnology revolution transforming ...
Edible metamaterials: The world’s most ‘perfect chocolate’ was 3-D printed
Think about biting into a piece of chocolate. What makes it enjoyable? Is it the sweetness? The way it melts ...
Did Russia’s destruction of Ukrainian plant genetic resource center also demolish the country’s National Seed Bank?
Earlier this year, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine and while Vladimir Putin's forces have largely retreated from the north ...
How long and how much? Bringing a biotech crop to market costs $116 million and takes 16.5 years
Farmers are increasingly faced with the need to produce more food from fewer resources and under less predictable growing conditions ...
New Zealand Farmer on the GMO Moratorium’s Impact on Sustainable Food and Agriculture, and Hopes CRISPR Crops Won’t Face the Same Fate
Craige Mackenzie, Farmer in Methven, New Zealand | June 26, 2018Highlights:New Zealand’s island status has intensified its commitment to sustainable farming‘Wait-and-see’ ...
‘These seeds were stored so that future generations could restore them’: Russian invaders destroyed Ukraine’s plant biodiversity gene bank housed in Kharkiv
One of the world’s largest, the National Gene Bank named after V.Ya. Yuriev National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, ...
How genetic engineering is creating more nutritious, healthier food and protecting crops from ravaging diseases
Despite the objections and protestations of the anti-GMO advocates who equate genetic engineering with “Frankenfoods” and utilize fear and scare ...
Viewpoint: Seed wars — How Russell Brand gets ‘Green Neo-Colonialism’ wrong
"Why Is Bill Gates Buying Up Stolen Native American Land?" British comedian and actor Russell Brand asked in a recent ...
Independent Swedish study finds switch from conventional farming to organic would require 130% additional land to maintain yields
Highlights The distribution of crop and fodder production in organic and conventional farms is established for eight regions of Sweden ...
Vitamin-A enhanced Golden Rice seeds distributed for planting for the first time in the Philippines
Finally, a rice that is infused with vitamin A will soon be served on the tables of Filipino households. After ...
Viewpoint: Anti-biotechnology activists claim Western corporations ‘colonize’ the developing world. Here’s why they are wrong
Today, many scientific discussions are shot through with social justice rhetoric, and the debate over food security in the developing world ...
Part II: The Clean 18 — USDA finds almost no pesticide-related health concerns from fruits and vegetables grown on American farms, while data on organic food is lacking
The purpose of the following section is to explore commodity to commodity differences by a variety of measures and not ...
Age of eco-terrorism: Why are activists attacking the most productive part of our food industry — modern agriculture?
The attack on a grain train by activists hostile to what they call “agro-industry” on March 19 in Brittany, France ...
How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine endangers our global food system
Life is full of unintended consequences. And unfortunately, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has provided classic proof of the old ...
Viewpoint: How South Africa is bungling regulation of CRISPR and other gene edited crops — and why consumers will pay the price
Food security is a global priority – and it is becoming more urgent in the face of climate change, which is ...
Love organic sweet Ruby Red grapefruits? Did you know it’s one of thousands of plants developed by shooting gamma rays at seeds?
You may be amazed to hear that some of the ‘natural’ foodstuffs you eat today may have also originated from ...
Believing shipment was GMO crops, anti-technology organization ‘Extinction Rebellion’ illegally dumps 1,5000 tons of conventional wheat intended to feed poultry in countries hard hit by Ukrainian war
The image is distressing: an entire train stopped in the middle of the track, its ripped sides spilling 1,500 tons of ...
Could the war in Ukraine spark a global food crisis?
A crucial portion of the world’s wheat, corn and barley is trapped in Russia and Ukraine because of the war, while ...
How the Russian invasion of Ukraine is stirring global food insecurity
Consumers around the world will feel the “enormous impact” of Russia’s war on Ukraine through sharply higher food prices and ...
Ukraine crisis prompts Europe to rethink Green Deal Farm to Fork policy, move away from organics to achieve sustainability goals
According to the "Green Deal",with which the European Union wants to become climate-neutral by 2050, only half as many pesticides and ...
How ‘agricultural intensification’ could cut global farm land use by almost 50%, increase biodiversity and help address climate change
In the context of trade-offs between land use and biodiversity, LMU geographers have simulated land saving potentials for agriculture. With ...
Nigerian companies ramp up production to meet high demand for GMO cowpea seeds
Nigeria’s private local seed companies are expanding production of genetically modified (GM) cowpea seeds to supply farmers eager to grow ...
Viewpoint: Challenging the ‘appeal to nature’ fallacy — Is being anti-GMO pro-starvation?
Almost anyone who is versed in agricultural science is pro-GMO. But for much of the United States, which are generations ...
Bayer angling to introduce new high-yield, genetically modified cotton seed in India
Germany's Bayer has applied to cultivate its next generation of genetically modified (GM) cotton seeds in India, government sources said, reviving ...
