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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Viewpoint: GMOs are scapegoated by activists and blamed for encouraging the world to skirt global food and agriculural challenges
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Ideological science—How the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) promotes unscientific hysteria about red meat
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Viewpoint: Africa needs to reject commercial agriculture and embrace small farms if it hopes to address food insecurity
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No, Elderberry is not a magic elixir
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Possibility of Trump tariffs has agricultural community in knots
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Trump administration abruptly ended government food safety alerts, then issued a ‘clarification’ that it’s a pause. Will the ban end up becoming permanent?
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No, the modern world is not killing us–Viewpoint: RFK. Jr.’s reckless war on food and agriculture
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Global food security moonshot: 153 Nobel and World Food Prize laureates outline what needs to be done to prevent a future global food catastrophe
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Viewpoint: Global food deficiencies are the result of faulty policies, not a shortfall in production
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The carnivore myth? One study challenges the long-held belief that our human ancestors were mostly meat eaters
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Human DNA found in some vegetarian hot dogs
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Viewpoint: Agroecology and other variations on organic farming that seek to mimic nature are doomed to fail
Organic farming, regenerative agriculture, and agroecology all aim to mimic nature under the assumption that natural systems offer the best ...
How genetic breeding is revolutionizing vertical farming
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Smart agriculture: African farmers urged to gradually reduce use of pesticides and fertilizers rather than abandon them to reduce risk of significant crop and economic losses
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Africa lags behind much of the world in embracing crop biotechnology, and the result is mass undernourishment
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RFK Jr. claims to want healthy food, but demonizes the science that makes it possible
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GLP podcast: Modern farming—’a miracle of science’; extreme weather threatens our food supply? Activists promote retracted pesticide study
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Viewpoint: Is the criticism of organic food justified?
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