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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African farmer: Europe vote blocks GMOs and modern farming, dooming us to food subsistence
An African journalist and farmer speaks out against the European Parliament's call to block GMO cultivation in Africa, calling it ...
Scotts Miracle-Gro glyphosate-resistant GMO grass utilizes less fertilizers, grows twice as fast
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists inside Scotts Miracle-Gro ...
Fear, confusion block acceptance of potentially life saving GMO goat milk
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . .[S]cientists ...
Senate’s GMO labeling bill clears major hurdle, final approval expected this week
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A federal bill that ...
Protestors arrested after throwing cash into Senate chamber during GMO labeling vote
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Senate advanced a ...
Bernie Sanders attacks Senate backers of GMO labeling bill on Twitter
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The fight is over ...
NYT: Senate’s labeling bill allows companies to hide GMO information from consumers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Senate is expected ...
Debunking Naturally Savvy’s ‘Top Ten Reasons to Avoid GMOs’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A few days ago, ...
Mexican farmers impatient for approval of GMO soybeans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Farmers in the state ...
India neglecting investment in improved crops, biotechnology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Budget 2016 contained ...
African farming sacrificed to European green politics, blocking GMO innovation
A biotech expert from Africa says European Parliament must let Africa reap the same benefits the rest of world has ...
TV interview: Organic industry backs mandatory GMO labeling to scare consumers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Food policy expert, Julie ...
Understanding genetics of woody plants could aid development of biofuels
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Large, fast-growing poplar trees ...
Chemist explains why organic labels are about marketing, not chemistry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . ...
GMOs illustrate problem of false balance, junk science in media
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. More than 100 Nobel ...
Food manufacturers pulling 3,000 products from VT due to GMO labeling law
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Vermont's first-in-the-nation GMO labeling ...
What would we lose if we gave up GMOs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Greenpeace calls GMOs "genetic ...
Caveats to consider about the Senate’s GMO labeling bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Senate agriculture leaders have ...
Many environmentalists dismiss best way to reduce pesticide use– GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. But what really catalyzed [Walter ...
Jon Entine urges farmers to tell their stories, not let anti-GMO activists define narrative
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Mainstream agriculture is under assault ...
Six consequences for consumers of labeling GMOs
What will happen if GMO labeling becomes required? Here are 6 real consequences for consumers ...
How did social media react to Nobel laureates call on Greenpeace to end ‘misleading’ campaign against Golden Rice
The announcement by more than 100 Nobel laureates for Greenpeace to end its 15 year effort to discredit Golden Rice—a beta carotene ...
Switzerland extends ban on GMO cultivation until 2021
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On [June 29], the ...
EU’s anti-GMO attitude slows development of biotechnology in Southern Africa
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. SADC [Southern African Development ...
Why do we regulate GMOs like chemicals, not living things?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . ...
Senate’s GMO labeling compromise appears headed for passage
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The ongoing legislative battle ...
Have you seen me: 1.3 billion tons of food lost every year
Each year, about 1.3 billion tons of food worldwide is lost or wasted from farmers’ fields to consumers’ plates. Check ...
