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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Anti-biotech French scientist Séralini joins Indian campaign to block approval of GMO mustard
High-yielding GM Indian mustard technology and Dhara Hybrid Mustard-11 (DHM-11) is a path-breaking breakthrough in agriculture sector, developed indigenously by ...
Why do some skeptics still claim GMOs unhealthy despite abundant contrary evidence?
The real question is whether [genetically] modified foods have been shown to cause harm in adults and children... Jon Entine, ...
Russia allows GMO research, but does ban on cultivation make it pointless?
[Editor's note: This article was translated with Google Translate and lightly edited for clarity] Konstantin Shestibratov, a biotechnologist from the ...
Monsanto says Bayer merger will help company tackle climate change challenges
"We're going to have 3 billion more people join the Middle Class, which along with the growing population is a ...
How will agriculture industry mergers, China’s GMO policies affect small farms?
How will the mega-mergers of Dow Chemicals and Dupont, Bayer and Monsanto and Syngenta and China National Chemical Corp. — ...
European Food Safety Authority will release glyphosate assessment data
EFSA is to release the raw data used in the recent EU safety evaluation of glyphosate, saying the move is ...
Nature busts anti-GMO myth: Gene swapping among plants, insects common occurence
Examining the genes of wasps, moths and butterflies reveals widespread genetic exchange between species. What does this mean for our ...
Four expert panels say data don’t support IARC’s classification of glyphosate as carcinogenic
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) published a monograph in 2015 concluding that glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic to ...
Conspiracy theories and food safety crises feed GMO opposition in China
...In 1992, China became the first country to introduce a GMO crop into commercial production... virus-resistant tobacco... Since then, the government has ...
Toyota develops DNA analysis technology to increase biofuel yields
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces that it has developed a new deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) analysis technology called Genotyping by Random ...
Nobel laureate Richard Roberts: Opposition to GMOs is an ‘indulgence of the affluent’
In June, more than a hundred Nobel laureates sent a clear message to Greenpeace: abandon the campaign against GMOs. Since ...
Dietary supplements may be subject to federal GMO labeling law
Dietary supplements, too, are subject to GMO ingredients. For example, in many nutritional supplement products, soy lecithin is a common ...
Endangered species listing for bumble bee could intensify neonicotinoid debate
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on [Sept. 21] proposed listing the rusty patched bumble bee... for federal protection as an ...
Large supplement maker adopting DNA testing to verify ingredients
NBTY, one of the nation’s largest makers of popular supplements like ginkgo biloba and ginseng, has agreed to conduct advanced ...
Why rice, but not corn, requires genetic modification to produce beta-carotene
Much like the ancient form of rice, the ancient form of corn (teosinte) is not eaten. Much like rice, maize ...
Nobel laureate: EU politicians bow to uninformed public in opposing biotech crops
Sir Richard Roberts is an English biochemist and molecular biologist. A Nobel Laureate, he is the signatory of the 100+ Nobel Laureates letter supporting ...
Monsanto’s licensing of CRISPR will allow faster, more accurate, cheaper crop modification
...[U]ntil last week Monsanto was operating with a very noticeable omission in its research and development arsenal. It's a wonder it took ...
GMO proponents may have overstated benefits of herbicide-resistant soy on environment
[M]any people... have talked about how glyphosate tolerant crops allowed replacement of more toxic herbicides. ...[B]ut that trend seems to ...
Should regulators consider CRISPR crops GMOs?
...What could be born of a union between...Monsanto..., and... Gene-Editing Tool, CRISPR/Cas9? Well, what it won’t be is a genetically modified organism, or ...
CRISPR editing of multiple plant genes results in almost no off target effects
A team that includes a Virginia Tech plant scientist recently used life sciences technology to edit 14 target sites encompassing ...
Class action suit against Syngenta over China’s 2014 rejection of GMO corn will proceed
A U.S. district court judge in Kansas... said lawsuits brought by U.S. farmers against seed company Syngenta AG over sales ...
GMO opposition, regulations encouraged crop biotechnology industry consolidation
The mergers and acquisitions in the agricultural input sector are a response to a changing environment. The new developments in ...
IARC accused of selectively excluding ‘best’ scientists from glyphosate review
To scientists... what was really alarming was [the IARC] finding that the pesticide glyphosate, the main ingredient in the common product ...
Former anti-GMO campaigner Mark Lynas: Green movement should support crop biotech
Former anti-GMO campaigner Mark Lynas discusses what changed his mind about GMOs. He addresses why the green movement is so threatened ...
Will new GMO labeling law apply to CRISPR crops?
...Earlier this year, the USDA gave the greenlight to CRISPR mushrooms engineered to not brown. It wrote that because the new mushroom ...
Iranian GMO opponents gain support from top clerics to ban GMO as ‘Zionist plot’
Iran is seeing its most vociferous outcry yet over the use of genetically-modified ingredients in food production. Opponents of food ...
No evidence that GMO mustard would harm India’s honeybees
Contrary to the unsubstantiated... rumors on the ill-effects of barnase-barstar GM mustard technology on honey bees, the South Asia Biotechnology ...
