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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Farm groups call Dannon’s move towards GMO-free ingredients ‘marketing flimflam’
Several major U.S. farm organizations said they are “troubled” by The Dannon Co.’s shift to using fewer genetically-modified ingredients, a ...
Transgenics unnatural? Nature doing ‘horizontal gene transfers’ for eternity
There is [a] fatal flaw to the argument that GMOs are “unnatural” because distant species do not exchange genes in nature ...
Monsanto, Syngenta consolidation provides opportunity for smaller seed companies to flourish
Farmers might be worried about the multibillion-dollar deals transforming the agriculture industry, but independent seed companies see the consolidation as ...
NY State PTA proposal to ban GMOs in schools ‘contrary to science, common sense’
When it holds its annual meeting in November in Saratoga Springs, [New York State Parent Teacher Association] NYSPTA will vote ...
GenØk: How Norway came to revile GMOs
Through poorly designed studies on water fleas, the Norwegian Institute of Gene Ecology has fueled confusion and fear of GMOs ...
India should let farmers decide about GMO mustard
The GM mustard baiters have ... made a big song and dance about the bar gene, which makes the plant resistant ...
GMO grass could cut methane emissions from cows, improve milk yield
The grass is about to get greener thanks to DNA technology out of Denmark. Researchers say they've genetically modified a ...
From caution to urgency: Climate change, poverty prompting Tanzanians to reconsider GMOs
...In the last 18 months, unusually high temperatures and a brutal El Niño have punished many parts of Africa with ...
Alison Van Eenennaam video: Animal geneticist on humane benefits of genetically dehorning cattle
Alison Van Eenennaam and colleagues at UC Davis, along with researchers at the biotech company Recombinetics, who aim to develop ...
2016 Presidential Race: Clinton, Trump, Stein, and Johnson on Food, Farming and GMOs
Here is a GMO policy primer, lining up not just Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, but also Libertarian Party candidate ...
France asks EU to regulate whether gene edited crops are GMOs
France has asked the European Court of Justice to rule on the legal classification of products generated by new plant breeding ...
Boulder, Colorado finalizing plans to institute GMO ban, support for organic farming
Officials in Boulder County have released a plan to remove all genetically-modified crops from county-owned farmland within the next five years. ...
Adoption of GMO cotton in Zimbabwe could increase national income by $50 million
Zimbabwe has been urged to embrace genetically modified (GM) crops to improve harvests and reduce production costs as production in cotton ...
World Food Prize awarded to scientists who developed biofortified sweet potato
Four scientists have been awarded the 2016 World Food Prize for enriching sweet potatoes, which resulted in health benefits for ...
Could GMO cassva prevent ‘konzo’ disease caused by cyanide in staple crop?
[K]onzo [is] a neurotoxic disease that people succumb to when they have nothing to eat except for the white roots ...
Voice of the Farmers event counterpoint to faux Monsanto tribunal
The [activist-organized, mock 'Monsanto Tribunal'] isn’t about Monsanto at all, but about stifling tools like genetic engineering, and agricultural chemicals ...
RNA spray could fight fungal disease in barley crops
Spraying barley crops with RNA molecules that inhibit fungus growth could help protect the plants against disease, according to a ...
Michael Pollan gets it wrong: Big Ag not the villain
Journalist Michael Pollan deserves credit for elevating the national conversation about food... But his latest piece in the New York Times ...
Kevin Folta, Borlaug CAST Communication Award winner: ‘Lead with your ethics’
[T]he winner of the Borlaug CAST Communication Award (BCCA) was honored at a World Food Prize side event, and this ...
Alison Van Eenennaam: Anti-GMO activists target public scientists
As the mock trial circus winds down in the Hague, fringe anti-GMO activists plan to reinvigorate their targeting of independent ...
Anti-GMO-touted Italian paper claiming GM genes in blood and organs found to be fabricated
Earlier this year, a nutrition journal retracted an article about the potential dangers of eating food containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs), ...
Monsanto Open Letter challenges activist-staged ‘Monsanto Tribunal’ mock trial
For The Record: Mock trial distracts from real dialogue on the world’s food and agriculture needs and the full realization ...
GMO backlash: Has the world reached ‘Peak GMO’?
Technology opens doors; society decides whether to pass through those doors... . . . . If the Internet and the ...
Australian chemical agency joins EPA, Canada, Europe in rejecting IARC’s glyphosate cancer claim
Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, which serves as the country's chemical regulatory agency, has concluded that the herbicide glyphosate ...
Nature Editorial: ‘Appeasing US anti-GMO movement by agreeing to labeling will likely backfire’
Although a US law mandating disclosure of GM ingredients provides food companies with a way out of the labeling rabbit ...
Mark Lynas: India’s GMO mustard will bring cheaper hybrids, not increase herbicide use
In an interview with Sanjeeb Mukherjee, Mark Lynas, a reporter with the Cornell Alliance who reports on crop biotechnology around ...
Europe’s neonicotinoid ban contributed to one-third drop in Britain’s rapeseed
Britain's rapeseed harvest fell this year by almost one-third due to poor yields and a prolonged decline in the planted area which ...
