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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GM food labelling poses many questions
While the new Labelling and Adver- tising of Foodstuffs Regulations (GN R146), which came into effect in March, is offering ...
Canada: Growers say survey shows consumers oppose GM
Orchardists in Okanaga say they have all the evidence they need to fight the introduction of GM fruit. A national ...
Call to push GM crops to boost farm output
The need for the application of new technologies to increase farm output and seed yields, including genetically modified crops, was ...
Commentary: GMO grass mix-up is embarrassing
Last week, reports flew through over the internet and the social media universe that cows in Texas were dying from ...
GM canola contamination leads to court showdown
Australia's system of organic certification will come under intense scrutiny when two neighbouring farmers do battle in the Western Australian ...
Yak genome provides new insights into high altitude adaptation
Scientists have completed the genomic sequence and analyses of a female domestic yak, which provides important insights into understanding mammalian ...
Scientists develop genetically modified dairy cows
Chinese scientists have genetically modifying dairy cows to produce milk with different properties, the U.K.’s Daily Mail reports ...
Melon genome obtained
A consortium of nine research centres has obtained the melon genome, a horticultural specie with high economic value around the ...
France’s Le Foll to keep biotech-crops ban, Le Monde says
French Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll wants to keep the country’s moratorium on existing genetically-modified crops, Le Monde said, citing ...
Cloned meat, milk as safe as traditional: EU Food Agency
Europe's food safety regulator said Thursday that food products like milk and meat from cloned farm animals are just as ...
GM food protest
SPORTING bakers' hats, aprons and wooden spoons, a coach-load of Totnes residents joined a national protest in Harpenden, Hertsfordshire, against ...
Pressure groups intensify campaign to derail GM guidance
Pressure groups Friends of the Earth (FoE) and GM Freeze have stepped up their campaign to derail EU safety guidelines ...
GM maize more environmentally friendly than conventional
Spain, one European country that favors genetically modified (GM) crops, claims that transgenic maize is more environmentally friendly than the ...
Nigeria: Stakeholders challenge President Jonathan over agricultural biotechnology law
Stakeholders including members of the National Assembly have berated President Goodluck Jonathan over his inability to assent into law till ...
Nigeria: ‘Nigeria needs biotechnology to avoid starvation’
The chairman Senate Committee on Capital Market, Senator Ayoade Ademola Adeseun, has said Nigeria needs biotechnology to save it from ...
Huh? Activists embrace new foods mutated with toxic chemicals and radiation, reject safe GMOs
Anti-GMO campaigners take no issue with new crops created by soaking seeds or tissues in toxic chemicals or subjecting them ...
Genetically modified cotton gets high marks in India
Smallholder farmers in central and southern India who planted genetically modified (GM) cotton achieve larger yields, greater profits and a ...
Organic agriculture: Is it a religion?
No person would choose organic food over conventional food on objective grounds to address regional needs or world hunger. Its ...
Chinese scientists identify yield-boosting rice gene
Researchers in China have identified a rice gene that could improve both the quality and yield of the staple crop ...
Is Monsanto sabotaging efforts to label genetically modified food?
As the 2012 Farm Bill continues to take shape in the halls of the United States Congress, the immense influence ...
Slow EU approvals seen growing threat to soy trade
Slow European Union approval of genetically modified soybeans is likely to pose a growing threat to trade as the pace ...
GMO ban: Risks for science-based assessments
French President François Hollande will face judicial problems over the ban on the cultivation of genetically modified plants, and this ...
International experts analyse the socio-economic impacts of GM crops
The proceedings of an international workshop on the current state of play regarding research into economic impacts of GMO cultivation ...
Types and uses of cassava
The plant has certainly been “rediscovered” and in many countries significant research has begun to evaluate the use of cassava ...
Taking the bite out of GM apples
A small BC company called Okanagan Specialty Fruits (OSF) has developed a genetically modified apple that will not turn brown ...
Kenya: Importers oppose conditions on GMOs
A year after the government put labeling regulations on importation of all Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) Products, the Cereal Millers ...
Genetic breakthrough could spell end to supermarket tomatoes that taste like mush
A new discovery from partners at UC Davis and Cornell University reveals that the same genes that account for the ...
