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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Oregon farmers sue Jackson county to overturn GMO ban
Jackson County voters passed a ban on GMO crops last May. Now the courts will test the ordinance's validity. Two county ...
World’s largest corn producer sues Syngenta over Chinese rejection of GMO corn
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., the world’s largest corn processor, sued Syngenta after China rejected its shipments of corn and products made from the ...
Prediction: McDonald’s will adopt eco-friendly GMO potato
On Friday, November 7, 2014, the U.S. Department of Agriculture cleared the path to commercialization for a “genetically modified” potato ...
No, I haven’t sold my soul to Monsanto
David Zilberman is an environmental economist and professor at the University of California—Berkeley. Recently I was interviewed for an article ...
Monsanto’s next horizon: Big Data
You probably know Monsanto as the world's leading producer of genetically engineered seeds—a global agribusiness giant whose critics accuse it ...
GM corn varieties facing battle with armyworms
Crop-devouring armyworms are showing increasing resistance in some U.S. farm fields to a popular type of genetically modified crop that ...
Philosophers pan agricultural genetic modification
In 1999, the eminent journal Science published a special issue on plant biotechnology, which, according to Article 2 of the ...
Non-GMO method boosts rice yields
Scientists at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture have found that they can harness photosynthesis – the process ...
GMO crops increase yields, benefit the environment
Among the winners in this month’s elections were foods containing genetically modified organisms. And, it’s possible that labeling laws, if ...
Better organically-bred seeds could revolutionize food system
Wasn’t organic seed just seed plucked from plants grown without chemicals, and if so, what was the big deal? Even ...
Do small farmers in developing countries want GM crops?
Do small farmers in developing countries want GM crops? That is a truly divisive question, and it seems like anyone ...
Chocoholic? Only GMO cocoa may help meet your cravings
The world demands about one million more metric tons of chocolate than cocoa farmers are physically able to produce. By ...
Are GMOs creating disastrous superweed problem?
The Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) has issued a new fact sheet to uproot common misconceptions about “superweeds”– a ...
Dow restricts new GMOs to avoid upsetting Chinese trade
Dow AgroSciences' decision to severely restrict U.S. introduction of its Enlist genetically modified crops and herbicide - billed as the ...
Starbucks denies alliance with Monsanto, support for GMOs, but Neil Young remains unimpressed
Neil Young announced that he's boycotting Starbucks. "I used to line up and get my latte everyday, but yesterday was ...
Nassim Taleb is right: Supporters of genetically modified foods ignore uncertainties
How can so many smart people, including many scientists, be so sure that there's nothing to worry about genetically modified ...
Vandana Shiva: ‘Ambassador of famine’?
Vandana Shiva, the globally known Indian anti-GMO activist, positions herself as a seer guiding us away from the evils of ...
Los Angeles symbolic GMO ban reinforces misinformation
The Los Angeles City Council voted in late October to draft an ordinance that would prohibit the sale or planting ...
Video: GMO opponents sue to block new Enlist Duo GMO corn and soybeans
Millions of acres of farmland in the U.S. have been affected by herbicide-resistant weeds. And the problem is spreading, which ...
GMO innovations inevitable in Tanzania
Modern biotechnology is an emerging novel tool with potentials in improving human and animal health, agriculture, industrial and agricultural production ...
Federal judge puts just-passed Maui GMO law on hold
United States Magistrate Judge Barry Kurren ruled last Friday that Maui County may not implement a new law banning the cultivation of ...
Gates funded genetically modified but non-GMO eco-rice rolls out across Asia, Africa
“Green Super Rice,” developed jointly by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the International Rice Research Institute in the ...
McDonald’s says ‘no plans’ to adopt new GMO potato
McDonald's, the world's largest fast-food company and a longtime buyer of Simplot potatoes for french fries, says it doesn't plan ...
EU close to agreement to allow individual country votes on GMO approvals and bans
Long-awaited draft plans to allow EU member states to restrict, or ban, the cultivation of crops containing genetically modified organisms ...
Researchers across Europe ‘appalled’ at scrapping of EU science advisory, caving to anti-science Greens
Despite strong support from scientific bodies, Prof Anne Glover's mandate expired at the end of the Barroso presidency - and ...
