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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India’s farmers wait as Bangladesh embraces biotech eggplant
Many people in India view their neighbors in Bangladesh with a measure of pity. They inhabit an overcrowded, less-developed country ...
Oregon farmers cheer Japan’s decision to resume purchases of GM wheat
Drought, crop prices, and equipment breakdowns are still on the list of troubles for Oregon's wheat farmers, but Japan's agricultural ...
French president to keep ban on GM corn despite court ruling
French President Francois Hollande said Friday that a ban on growing GM corn sold by US giant Monsanto would remain ...
Hawaii’s Bill 2491: Prohibitive GM regulation assumes the worst
The debate over Kauai's anti-GMO bill has drawn huge interest and more than 1,000 people to a raucous public hearing last ...
Foodie Michael Pollan roundly criticized for baseless “industry talking points” tweet
Michael Pollan of the University of California-Berkeley School of Journalism has had quite a week – and not in a good way ...
Tanzania: Formerly anti-GMO journalist Mark Lynas speaks out in favor of crop biotech
“In my view the controversy over GMOs represents one of the greatest science communications failures of the past half-century,” [Lynas] ...
Kauai’s biotech battle: A field report from geneticist Kevin Folta
In Kauai, there is no reason for fear or action; no need for a bill and restrictive non-scientific regulation ...
Future foods: Candy grapes, hypoallergenic apples, and more!
Whether it's been genetically modified, cross-pollinated or created out of some other scientific process, scientists are aiming to create food ...
In defense of the precautionary principle
Far from the pessimistic, innovation-strangling caricature, precaution actually celebrates the full depth and potential for human agency in knowledge and ...
Genetic Literacy Project deconstructs Elle’s botched critique of GMO foods
Lifestyle magazines are fanning the flames of GMO-fear, without recourse to facts and -- in the case of Elle -- ...
French anti-GM protesters target “hidden GMOs”
French anti-biotech activists are now destroying "hidden GMOs" -- that is crop varieties produced by mutation breeding ...
Prince Charles warns GM crops risk causing the biggest-ever environmental disaster
In his most outspoken intervention on the issue of GM food, the Prince said that multi-national companies were conducting an ...
Kauai GE debate evokes emotion from both sides
Although relatively peaceful — other than the occasional snicker, laugh or boo from the audience — testimony during Wednesday’s public ...
More anti-GE dishonesty from GMWatch
GMWatch, in attempt to make you believe that scientists are anti-gmo did a little selective editing to prove their point, ...
France: Court overturns ban on Monsanto GE maize
France's highest administrative court rejected on Thursday a government ban on growing Monsanto's MON810 genetically modified maize (corn). In its ...
Are anti-science positions part of the Green political strategy?
The anti-science position of the greens on GMOs, fracking and nuclear power, is itself political tool used to whip up ...
GM crops don’t kill kids, opposing them does
Golden rice’ prevents the vitamin A deficiency that kills millions every year. Yet Greenpeace is blocking it It was over ...
Cloud-based genomics: Will the Internet create GM super-oranges?
Farmers are hacking their operations with robots, sensors, drones, and good-old circuit boards, but that’s merely a first step. Thanks ...
Science ‘swat team’ informs Hawaiians about ag biotech
Seek understanding of differing viewpoints. You can agree to disagree. That was one of several house rules Monday evening inside ...
Nutraceutical CEO: We won’t see government mandated GE labeling; it’s a marketing issue
From California to Washington, and from Connecticut to Vermont, initiatives to label the presence of ingredients derived from genetically modified ...
UK: Survey finds GM gaining favor
More people support rather than oppose the growing of genetically modified crops and more of them are prepared to buy ...
Nina Fedoroff: Can we trust Monsanto with our food?
The World Food Prize laureates for 2013 were announced in June. They are Marc van Montagu, Mary-Dell Chilton and Rob ...
Russia: GE regulations are not being enforced
Since 2007, the Russian government has required that foods containing more than 0.9 percent genetically modified (GM) material be labeled, ...
Is there something missing from the New York Times story on GE oranges?
Here's what I like about Amy Harmon's New York Times story: It's very nicely written, nicely organized, and it spins ...
Grist: GMOs, allergens and the specter of ‘unknown unknowns’
Grist takes a second, deeper look at the allergenic risk of GM crops relative to traditional crops ...
Hawaii science ‘Swat Team’ part 2: Hawaii must resist anti-GMO scare, defend maize nurseries
Hawaii is an important player in global agriculture, and important nursery for the development of maize and other crops due ...
A small farmer’s view of Kauai anti-biotech bill
It would be wonderful if farmers could stand in their fields, wave their arms and weeds, insects and plant diseases ...
