Agriculture & 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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‘DEI is a red herring’: How Ag Secretary Rollins’ targeting of food programs is hitting the rural poor in the U.S. hard
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Video: How our food choices impact climate change
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RFK, Jr.’s claim that food additives cause ADHD is more scare-mongering than science
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Unresolved mystery: Why has Bill Gates quietly become the largest private owner of farmland in the United States
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The first human trial of nutrient-rich gene-edited tomatoes is underway in England
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Viewpoint: The promise and challenges facing India’s turn toward gene-edited rice
In a notable milestone for India’s agri-biotechnology sector, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) announced the development of two ...
Did you hear the story about the GMO that nearly destroyed the world?
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America’s farming economy in a recession? Depends who you ask.
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Is the global food supply collapsing as temperatures gradually increase? Just the opposite, as world is on track for record harvests
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India and other warm-weather countries are growing climate resilient crops to blunt climate change
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GLP podcast: Spread meat allergy with gene-edited ticks? Bioethicists pose vile ‘thought experiment’
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‘Quite advanced’: Scientists are close to perfecting biotech African potato variety that is free of killer late blight disease
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Can gene editing be a game-changer in improving crop resilience and sustainability?
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Video: Should we revamp our diet to eat mostly organic foods? Harvard gastroenterologist says fears are based on hysteria not science
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Chemophobic misinformation: 40% of Europeans say they ‘want to live in a world where chemicals don’t exist’
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How AI is rewriting the book on food and farming sustainability
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How gene editing of farm animals could help prevent a COVID-like bird flu epidemic
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Viewpoint: Farmers take a hit—Trump agriculture and biotechnology budget cuts are hampering U.S. innovation
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