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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Requiem for junk food? RFK, Jr. proposes banning the use of SNAP food stamps on non-essential junk foods but delivering won’t be easy
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the newly confirmed health and human services secretary, and Brooke Rollins, the new agriculture secretary, have both ...
Viewpoint: 50 years after Asilomar set a fractured framework for regulating agricultural genetic enginnering, it’s time to embrace the technology’s full potential
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Viewpoint: The v-Fluence attack file—How the Environmental Working Group undermines science, destroys careers and harms the environment
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‘We’re running out of options’: After killing 166 million birds didn’t slow bird flu, what’s next?
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CRISPR gene-edited foods: Three-quarters of Americans surveyed are oblivous to the latest innovations though the most informed view the technology positively
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Promises or threats: Dairy industry on tenterhooks about Robert F Kennedy, Jrs. views on milk and other foods
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Towards a bio-based economy: Turning agricultural biowaste into safer agro-chemicals and additives
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Viewpoint: U.S. farmers terrified over the polocy havoc Human Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is introducing into food and agriculture
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Constitutional ban: Mexican president Sheinbaum poised to sign formal ban on growing genetically modified (GMO) corn
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Viewpoint: Africanizing biotechnology—Scientists call for depoliticization of sustainable agriculture research
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GLP podcast: Will Trump let RFK, Jr. ‘go wild on the food’? A farmer forecasts the future of US agriculture
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What’s ‘sustainable abundance’ and how can we deploy technological innovation to achieve it?
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Viewpoint: After an unexpected and controversial federal ruling, the regulatory future of gene edited crops in the US is cloudy
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Viewpoint: Activist Food and Water Watch offers its blueprint of what RFK, Jr. should do to ‘reform’ America’s food system
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Viewpoint: Trump is pushing ‘America FIrst’ across policy sectors including food and farming. Why that’s not a great idea
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