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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Is non-GMO label a ‘declaration of opposition to farmers, science?’
[Editor's note: Trevor Charles is a microbiologist at the University of Waterloo in Canada.] [M]y tweet about an example of a ...
Massachusetts mulls restrictions on neonicotinoid pesticides over bee safety concerns
A type of pesticide many beekeepers blame for mass bee die-offs would come under tighter regulation under a bill filed ...
African scientists developing GMO sorghum with higher levels of vitamin A to tackle childhood blindness
Up to half a million children around the world are going blind every year due to a lack of Vitamin ...
When Celebrity And Science Collide: Hollywood And The Anti-Biotechnology Food Movement
Celebrityhood does not equate with science knowledge. The opinions of music and media stars are no more relevant to the ...
Tanzania’s first ever GMO field trial: Drought-tolerant, insect-resistant corn ‘shows promising results’
Tanzania's first-ever genetically-modified crop trial was planted only a 30-minute drive from the capital. ... A year ago the Tanzanian ...
Only 1 percent of US farmland is certified organic. Why aren’t more farmers making the switch?
There are two stories to tell about the state of organic agriculture in the US. The first is a success ...
5 non-GMO ‘frankenfoods’ that can carry organic label
One of the most common food myths of our time is that GMOs are “frankenfoods” while heirloom or organic varieties ...
UK farmers push back against ‘pseudo-science attack’ on herbicide glyphosate
Hundreds of farmers across Britain are coming together in a concerted effort to show politicians and the public why glyphosate ...
Blight-resistant genetically engineered potatoes that cut fungicide use approved
Three types of potatoes genetically engineered to resist the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine are safe for the ...
How to stop fungi that infect, destroy crops? Target their ‘friends’
By itself, [the pathogenic fungus Rhizoctonia solani] is responsible for the turfgrass disease called brown patch, sheath blight within rice, ...
Locavore’s dilemma: When buying food grown in distant locations may be best for the environment
[Editor's note: Pierre Desrochers is an associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto. Hiroko Shimizu ...
He’s baaaack: Natural News restored to Google, as founder Mike Adams escalates ‘censorship’ claim
[Editor's note: NaturalNews.com was delisted from Google search results on February 23, 2017, for what was later revealed to be ...
Transparency Helps Food Producers Increase Trust Processes And Products
Research shows that consumers hold food companies most responsible not only for labor issues, human rights and business ethics, but ...
Iowa farmer: 8 popular food companies that promote myths about GMOs
[Editor’s note: Michelle Miller, known on social media as the Farm Babe, raises lamb and beef cattle, and grows almost ...
Bias at The New York Times? Stephanie Strom botches report on bees and neonicotinoid pesticides
Covering food and modern farming has not been the New York Times' strong point, writes GLP's Jon Entine. Is the ...
Will Europe regulate gene-edited crops and research the same as they do genetically modified ones?
[The] European Court of Justice has entered the fray and may put a damper on research in Europe, even as ...
Idaho GMO sugar beet farmers mull ditching crop as more food companies adopt non-GMO label
Idaho sugar beet farmers have grown increasingly dependent on genetically modified seeds for cost savings and greater yields over the ...
Australia’s organic industry should drop ‘zero tolerance’ of GM food contamination, farmers group says
Flood waters have swept through parts of WA's grain growing region, sparking concern from some certified organic growers that contamination ...
Approval of GM crops, beef exports among priorities of Trump’s China ambassador pick
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, whom U.S. President Donald Trump has tipped to become ambassador to China, said ... that he ...
Precision agriculture: How big data can make farms more sustainable
Farmers have numerous sources of technology and data available to use in their operations, but many producers struggle with what ...
1 in 3 Scottish farmers blame ban of neonicotinoid pesticides for rapeseed crop damage
More than a third of Scottish arable farmers say the ban on neonicotinoids has resulted in greater damage to oilseed ...
Perplexing Case Of Consumer Confusion About GE Foods In a ‘Fake News’ World
Information issued by scientific organizations often do not change perceptions. This is especially true for people with rooted 'tribal' beliefs ...
No, your body does not absorb genetic material from eating GM foods
A major new study ... has found no evidence that genetic material from the food we eat is absorbed via ...
Google delisted Mike Adams’ Natural News website for ‘sneaky’ marketing, not content
It became apparent that “Natural News” had been removed from Google search results on February 22 [2017]. The website did ...
Can GMOs mitigate threats to global food security?
[Editor's note: Stuart Thompson is a senior lecturer in plant biochemistry at the University of Westminster in the UK.] Crops ...
World’s largest flower is a parasite that, surprisingly, exchanges genes with its host
[Editor's note: Critics of transgenic GMO crops often argue that the movement of genetic material from one species to another ...
Virus-resistant potato genetically engineered with RNAi developed but not near commercialization
RNA interference (RNAi) technology has been successfully applied in stacking resistance against viruses in numerous crop plants. During RNAi, the ...
