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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Poll shows strong support for GM labeling
Americans overwhelmingly support labeling foods that have been genetically modified or engineered, according to a New York Times poll conducted ...
It’s opponents of GM crops who are harming farmers
Had he been born 50 years earlier I can imagine Owen Paterson as a stiff young official on the groundnut ...
A gale of fresh air on GE crops in the UK
Exactly a week before this editorial was written, Owen Paterson, the UK Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and ...
Can genome research on the palm tree help save endangered rainforests?
Scientists hope to use genomic knowledge to grow better trees that can yield more oil and reduce pressure on the ...
Unraveling 5 popular anti-GE claims
The mainstream scientific community, specific science organizations and the scientific literature converge on the conclusion that genetically modified foods are ...
Suppressing technology will not feed Hawaii or the world
Roseanne Barr would like to burn down my papaya farm in Hawaii. The wealthy actress said so earlier this month, ...
Elle Magazine hops aboard the GMO Fright Train
As I have previously observed, “the belief that GMO foods are deadly or potentially harmful” has come to dominate the ...
GM crops and real risk
The World Apple Report has tracked the perilous road that Okanagan Specialty Fruits has been travelling to get approval for ...
GMOs may feed the world using fewer pesticides
Walter De Jong shouts over the roar of fans in the greenhouse. He’s telling me about the seedlings beside him, ...
Is FDA’s review process for GE animals fit for its purpose?
To explore whether the regulatory process in question is fit for its purpose, the Food & Drug Law Institute's Food ...
UK: Public fears over ‘Frankenstein food’ may be easing, poll finds
More people support rather than oppose the growing of genetically modified crops and more of them are prepared to buy ...
Debate: Is the FDA’s review process for GE animals fit for purpose?
To explore whether the regulatory process in question is fit for purpose, the Food & Drug Law Institute's Food and ...
Pooping Canada geese may have spread GM wheat seeds
Canada geese may have spread viable seeds of genetically modified wheat grown at the Central Experimental Farm, documents from Agriculture ...
Bill 79: Stifle biotech and Hawaiian agriculture will suffer
Can biotechnology help Hawaiian coffee beat the coffee berry borer -- not if anti-biotech activists have their way ...
Purdue scientists identify two genes in soybean that could prevent $250 million in lost yield
Purdue University researchers have identified two genes within the soybean genome that are highly resistant to a soilborne pathogen that ...
Sequenced palm oil genome paves the way for sustainable plantations
Few environmentalists feel any fondness for the oil palm, with its connections to deforestation in the tropics. But the waxy ...
USDA debuts streamlined regulatory process for GM crops
A new regulatory new process allows the USDA to deregulate crops with GE traits that have already been approved in ...
UK: Farmer recalls GM rapeseed trial after Monsanto’s decision
Monsanto Co.'s decision to withdraw applications for approval of genetically modified crops in the European Union was "deeply disappointing," said ...
Ghana approves first GE crops for trials
Ghana's Biosafety Bill was given Presidential assent to become law, after it has been in Parliament for four years. The ...
Russia to increase production of GE despite scientific uncertainty
The Government of the Russian Federation approved a "roadmap" to increase the production of GMOs. The move will be done ...
Finanical Times editorial: Europe is right to be cautious over GM crops
Monsanto, the US agricultural group, has abandoned its decade-long bid for permission to grow a range of genetically modified crops ...
India: Supreme Court committee says no to GM crops for now
A Supreme Court appointed committee had recommended an indefinite moratorium on field trials of Genetically Modified (GM) crops till the ...
GE in the UK: A change of heart
The 1990s saw a public outcry against genetically modified (GM) foods in the U.K. Activists slashed and pulled up GM ...
NBC Latino looks at the GE food debate
In the past two months alone, there have been international marches against Monsanto, which produces genetically modified seeds, in more ...
Grist: Does the “little difference” between GE and traditional breeding matter?
The interpretation of what “a little” means for perception of risk, and for public policy, varies wildly depending on people’s ...
Kloor: Green America takes on GE
As if the meaning of “natural” wasn’t already overly twisted for ideological and commercial purposes. Check out this campaign recently launched ...
Anti-GE activists force Naked Juice to drop ‘All Natural’ label
Some companies have begun voluntarily alerting us to the presence of GMOs in their products. In most cases, companies go ...
