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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High-yield, environmentally-friendly GMO ryegrass moved to US for field trials due to New Zealand’s strict biotech laws
Genetically modified grass that could lower farming's environmental footprint will be taken offshore next year for field testing. Developed by ...
Transparency Is Key To Consumer Acceptance Of New Technology
Can gene-editing technology avoid the stigma associated with GMOs? Center for Food Integrity research says food and agricultural companies must ...
Cardboard-tasting tomatoes may soon be thing of the past, as genetic tinkering accelerates
Thank goodness for bawdy academic research budgets. Growers and grocers stopped caring about the insides of the tomato because all ...
UK farmers apply for emergency use of neonicotinoids to protect rapeseed crop
The National Farmers Union (NFU) ... announced [February 7] that it has applied for emergency use of neonicotinoid seed treatments ...
Producing ‘super foods’: Unlocking quinoa genome opens door to new breeding techniques
Scientists have successfully decoded the genome of quinoa, one of the world's most nutritious but underutilised crops. ... [P]rices for ...
Ghanaian researcher: Let science, not scare-mongering, guide our country’s GMO policy
[Editor's note:Â The author is currently a Ph.D. Candidate studying Plant Science at the South Dakota State University, Brookings, USA. He ...
Are pest fighting GMO insects coming to a farm near you, impacting organic farmers?
Genetic modification of insects is used to create a self-limiting population. It’s a technological successor to the Sterile Insect Technique, in ...
Millennial libertarian: ‘Stakes too high’ for Americans to ignore scientific consensus on GMOs
Despite the overwhelming scientific consensus that genetically modified foods are safe for human consumption, Americans are generally distrustful of all ...
Lobbying and big spending on GMO and pesticide issues escalate in Hawaii
The battle over genetically modified crops is turning into one of the most expensive political debates in Hawaii's history. Hawaii News ...
Why do people accept biotech in medicine but not GMO foods?
[Editor's note: this article summarizes a paper (PAY WALL) published in the journal Annual Review of Resource Economics.] In a paper─ The ...
Non-browning Arctic Apple rollout foreshadows more genetically engineered fruits and vegetables
Advances like gene silencing and other gene editing methods, like CRISPR technology, make biotech plant breeding cheaper and more precise than the ...
Insect-resistant GMO Bt rice poses ‘negligible risks’ to non-target species, study finds
Transgenic Bt rice expressing the insecticidal proteins derived from Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner (Bt) have been developed since 1989. Their ecological risks ...
Here’s the truth about the non-browning Arctic Apple
[Editor's note: The story is a response to a February 2, 2016, post on STAT news written by a campaigner with ...
Will Biotechnology Regulations Squelch Food and Farming Innovation?
The GLP's 18-part 5-week series -- GMO: Beyond the Science -- begins with a look at the regulatory web that ...
As food insecurity rises in Zimbabwe, so do calls to repeal GMO ban
Food is scarce in [Domboshava]... Weather changes, including harsher winters and shorter rainy seasons, have compromised the earth's soil so ...
Only conspiracy theories left to challenge science consensus that GMOs are safe
I have been writing about the GMO scientific consensus for quite some time, because this scientific consensus for the safety of GMO ...
Podcast: British scientist defends field trials of high-yield GMO wheat
[Editor's note: Listen to the full interview here.] Genetically modified crops may be in regular use by farmers in the United ...
GMO ban in Chinese province highlights major difference between public and government on biotech crops
Heilongjiang province, the bread basket of north-east China, has banned the planting of genetically modified (GM) crops – the country’s first ...
Review of neonicotinoids’ effects on human health finds few studies, ‘methodologically weak findings’
Prior to 2000, neonicotinoid chemicals were virtually unknown, by farmers or anyone else. They have since become the most widely ...
Infographic: 5 popular foods genetically modified by humans–before GMOs
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to eat a completely "natural" diet? Well, for starters, you wouldn't ...
Global GMO food market expected to reach 130 million tons by 2021
As, the demand for GMO food is on a continuous rise, stacked traits, a mix of more than one transgene, ...
Sustainability: ‘Organic farming should embrace blight–resistant genetically engineered potato’
[Editor's note: This journal article is written by Godelieve Gheysenat, molecular geneticist, Ghent University in Belgium, and René Custers, regulatory and responsible research ...
New GMO corn study: ‘Transgenic maize is as safe and nutritious as conventional non-transgenic maize’
[Editor's note:Â Researchers studied the impact of GMO corn on rats in a 90-day feed study. For background on GMO safety ...
Talking Biotech: Why broccoli, collard greens, kale and other brassica are like dog breeds
University of Missouri biologist J. Chris Pires discusses the many vegetables that began as Brassica oleacea--wild cabbage ...
Hawaiian chef slices through anti-GMO propaganda
[Editor's Note: This article is written by Ed Morita, a pastry chef in Hawaii. He has spent over 15 years working at some ...
Cheaper blue jeans that are better for the environment? Genetic engineering can make it happen
Editor's note: This piece is written by Dr. Miller, a physician and molecular biologist, who was the founding director of the ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: The dangers of romance?
Epigenetics Around the Web is a weekly roundup of studies and news in the field of epigenetics presented by GLP ...
