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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The price of science literacy: Florida professors’ open letter of support for Kevin Folta
University of Florida professors come out in support of independent researchers in the crosshairs of anti-GMO activists ...
Food secure Western countries may reject GMOs, but Uganda needs them
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GMO corn debate in Mexico dominated by biodiversity concerns
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Corn is Mexico’s principle ...
Facing drought, Africa ‘doesn’t need handouts, needs technology like GMOs’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. My continent of Africa ...
Do industrial agricultural methods actually yield more food per acre than organic ones?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If we choose to ...
With Canada’s federal election nearing, politicians grilled about GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a federal election ...
EU Parliament committee rejects limitations on GMO food or feed imports
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A draft law that ...
“End of Plenty” book warns of global food crisis
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Squeezing ever-higher yields from ...
India GMO Bt cotton falsely blamed for whitefly pest infestation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Biotechnology industry body ABLE-AG ...
Biotech companies should release all GMO study results
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The larger problem in ...
GMO-conventional-organic crop coexistence challenges in the developing world
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Non-food, field crops like ...
Glyphosate cleared as danger to honey bees
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In September, researchers from ...
FOIA emails reveal anti-GMO, pro-organic spin ‘A team’ led by Tom Philpott and Michael Pollan
A trove of new emails tied to former professor Charles Benbrook shines an ethically harsh light on the journalistic ethics ...
Talking Biotech: GMO corn experiment for everybody; Sugar beet domestication and breeding
Biology Fortified's public GMO wildlife corn eating experiment; Plant geneticist Lee Panella talks sugar beets ...
Why Norman Borlaug is a hero
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Most people in the ...
India’s farming industry responding to climate change challenges
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [F]armer Raman Bhai Parmar, ...
FOIA: For $100,000 Charles Benbrook offered to ‘ramrod’ ‘independent’ anti-GMO research for Australian activists
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Exposure of a private email ...
Everyone can participate in Biology Fortified’s GMO Corn Experiment
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Do squirrels and other ...
Is Monsanto’s focus on crop biotechnology backfiring?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Pity Monsanto, the genetically ...
BASF teams with Monsanto in developing super-long high-yield corn
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Since their introduction in ...
How to distinguish a GMO hard-boiled egg from an organic one
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FOIA: Organic industry, Chuck Benbrook orchestrated anti-GMO “independent” research, marketing
FOIA released emails show that the former university professor whose research is the lynchpin of the anti-GMOs industry's public case ...
Gene modification does not destroy ‘natural’ food system, could promote organic farming
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Traditional breeding changes the ...
Nature Biotech: US Right to Know, Organic Consumers are “demagogues”, “anti-science zealots”
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Smear campaigns against those ...
CRISPR gene edited food headed for dinner plates?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Agricultural biotech giants are ...
What TPP means for agricultural greenhouse gas emissions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The TPP opened North ...
A co-existence peace plan for GMOs and organics
Could organic and GM farming step past the rhetoric and vitriol, and co-exist? The science says yes ...
