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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Gene edited crops inch closer to acceptance as outlined in the European Commission’s new blueprint for the future
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Putting your money where your ideals are? Claims that consumers care about food, farming and sustainability are mostly suspect
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Doomsday seed bank vault: How the US government protects our food and farming future
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Reciprocal US-EU food war: Agricultural chemicals in the crosshairs as tariffs begin rolling out
The European Union is looking to halt imports of certain produce grown using pesticides currently banned from use here, the FT ...
Viewpoint: Litigation industry intensifies its lobbying in Iowa to stoke fear about the alleged dangers of glyphosate
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What would our diet consist of if we restricted our eating to American-produced food
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Viewpoint: Here’s why almost all international agricultural biotechnology regulatory structures are a scientific mess, and what reforms are needed
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Viewpoint: Activists claiming that the global food system under produces and undermines global food security are wrong, and here’s why
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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
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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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Popcorn was ‘invented’ at least 6700 years ago
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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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Non-browning and extended life bananas are here—thank you gene editing
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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
Tew Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has never hesitated to attack modern agriculture. Though most ...
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Turning the cotton industry sustainable: Using sweat potoato waste
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