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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Projecting agricultural impacts of climate change, can GM crops help?
In a summer like this, as we watch crop conditions wither in record-setting heat and dry conditions, we might wonder ...
UK: Green Food Project opens door to GM science
The government has committed to an industry-wide debate about genetically modified (GM) foods ...
Rice lands on the radar of GMO researchers
On most GI charts, as illustrated on the Harvard Medical School website, the GI score for rice is an average ...
Former Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope renews attacks on genetic engineering
Want to know what's bad about genetic engineering? Pretty much everything, if you're Carl Pope, the Sierra Club's former leader ...
Despite record heat wave and drought, genetic engineering will result in productive corn season
Corn farmers expected this to be a record year, the biggest since 1937. But after months with little or no ...
Advanced techniques could propel crop improvement
Scientists could take greater strides toward crop improvement if there were wider adoption of advanced techniques used to understand the ...
GMO mosquitoes saving lives in Brazil
When it comes to life or death, genetically modified organisms win out over leaving the environment untouched, and those with ...
Climate change drives salmon evolution
Salmon DNA records stretching back over 30 years show that nature has increasingly selected for fish that migrate from the ...
Romania and GMOs: An anti-GMO stance for Romania
Let us first state that this is not an anti-genetically modified organisms article. Given the right biotechnology, at the right ...
“Agent Orange Corn”: NGOs skirt science, liken Dow’s new seed to Vietnam era pesticide
Researchers have developed a new variety of biotech corn that carries a natural resistance to the herbicide 2,4-D. Some NGOs ...
Beets root of fuel source
A biofuel company hopes plots of high-sugar “energy beets” will fuel an ethanol project ...
The issue that won’t go away: Farm biotechnology
Covering farm technology means being on the scene with ag biotech too. From the first days of tomatoes that had ...
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 ...
