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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Leading Nigerian politician pushes for bio-safety law
The Speaker of the House of Representatives in Nigeria, Aminu Tambuwal, has indicated that the passage of the Bio-safety Bill ...
Jackson county could be first in Oregon to ban growing GMOs
If voters approve, Jackson County would become the first in Oregon to ban growing genetically modified crops. A local farmers’ ...
GMOs in India face trials despite initial approval
The Indian environment ministry's Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) approved field trials of 11 varieties of genetically-modified (GM) crops that had ...
Dow challenges Monsanto with new seed and herbicide system
Dow AgroSciences looked on for years as agribusiness giant Monsanto dominated the genetically modified seed market. Now the seed and ...
CNN’s irresponsible article on ’10 ways to avoid GMOs’–No, GMOs are not unsafe
CNN's article about 10 ways to avoid GMOs was not grounded in fact and misled many readers, a clear example ...
Integrated pest management with GM crops can outperform organic agriculture
Is organic agriculture always safer to the environment and human health? Can all consumers afford the generally 20 to 30 ...
Connecting agricultural biodiversity to environmental justice
When the U.S. Supreme Court held last year that farmers can be liable for damages if they use patented seeds ...
GMO labeling push reflects deep misunderstandings of science
Critics say genetically modified foods might be unsafe, but even if they are not, consumers have a right to know ...
Going GMO-free: Easier said than done
Boulder is known for its staunch commitment to organic products, sourcing local and an emphasis on avoiding genetically modified organisms, ...
British scientists push for government to relax GMO barriers
Many people are pretty fed up with the continuing fuss about GM food and crops. There have been innumerable reviews and ...
When scientific consensus meets GMOs
The information on a scientific consensus is easy enough to find, but for the topic of GMOs it is in ...
Can grapefruits be dangerous with drugs? The answer is in our genes
Many people believe that just because a food is unprocessed that it's safe. But many foods can interact with drugs, ...
US regulators sitting on non-browning Arctic Apple approval
A Canadian company petitioned USDA regulators two years ago to “deregulate” – approve for unrestricted cultivation and marketing — a ...
Sec of Ag: Technology offers alternative to mandatory GMO labeling
Tom Vilsack, the Secretary of Agriculture, told a House subcommittee his department is talking with the U.S. Food and Drug ...
US farmers continue to sow GM corn banned by China
Six months after China began rejecting shipments of a genetically modified corn developed by Switzerland's Syngenta AG, two of the ...
Farmers clash in Hawaii court over GMO disclosure requirements
Does requiring farmers growing genetically modified crops to register with Hawaii County result in the release of proprietary information? That’s ...
Beefing up livestock with GM crops
New methods of genome editing for precise DNA changes of living organisms could make varieties of crops easier for farm animals ...
India can only gain from more GM crops
An Indian technical expert committee recently recommended that the Supreme Court declare a 10-year ban on field trials of GM ...
GM and organics can coexist
The biggest farming group in the US has backed moves to promote coexistence between organic and biotech farmers. With a ...
How Grist’s Nathanael Johnson changed his mind on GMOs
Journalist and author Nathanael Johnson was skeptical of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) when he began a six-month investigative series about their ...
British scientists urge Europe to revamp GMO regulation
Europe’s stringent regulation of genetically modified (GM) crops has no rational basis and should be revamped to allow countries who ...
GE labeling measures moving through California and Colorado
California’s 2012 food-labeling ballot measure, rejected by state voters, makes a return from the grave tomorrow with a public hearing ...
Organic activist criticizes proposed FDA nutrition labels for leaving GMOs out
In February, First Lady Michelle Obama launched a media blitz to tout the FDA's proposed new rules for nutrition labels on packaged ...
Non-GMO beer? Label makes no sense
Beer's usual ingredients - water, barley or wheat, hops and yeast - are not available as genetically modified crops, yet ...
Largest genome ever sequenced: Loblolly pine
A new record: scientists successfully sequenced the genome of the loblolly pine, a 100-foot-tall tree with 23 billion base pairs ...
Organic farmer call to action: We can work with GMO farmers to feed the world
The debate should not be whether organics or GMOs are best suited to meet global food challenges. That's a false ...
Honoring of Green Revolution’s Norman Borlaug ignites ideological skirmishes
Today would have been Norman Borlaug's 100th birthday. As the father of the Green Revolution he is credited with saving ...
