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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Activists, farmers link GMOs to use of neonic pesticide, claim bees endangered
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Politics not science likely behind China’s halt of crop biotech trials
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Technology-based agriculture in Africa could lower carbon pollution as farming expands
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Aussie organic farmer who lost GMO ‘contamination’ case faces $800,000 in court costs
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Swaziland embracing GM cotton
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To feed hungry world, is the future of agriculture a battle between organics and GMOs?
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Anti-GMO critics dominate National Academy of Sciences crop biotech evaluation
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Ralph Nader: Is GMO science corrupt?
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Let farmers, not activists, decide fate of GM crops in India
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