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 that prevents cancer, makes you healthier?
There is a lot of reasonable debate about the safety of changing the genetic makeup of things we eat, but ...
Unlikely support for Bt/GM crops
The Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) bacteria protein in plants have not harmed monarch butterflies, honey bees, rats or shown up in ...
Kenya: Why Kenya has to adopt biotechnology in farming
Today a new revolution is knocking at Africa's door-agricultural biotechnology. It promises to do for agriculture what mobile technology has ...
Asia–Pacific Analysis: Plan for growth in biotech crops
Since biotechnology-derived crops were introduced in 1996, they have been adopted at an unprecedented rate, according to the 2011 annual ...
Cows genetically modified to produce healthier milk
Chinese scientists have developed and unveiled a genetically modified cow whose milk they claim is healthier, triggering fresh alarm over ...
Ministers meet farming leaders to discuss GMs
The future of GM crops in Britain will be a key subject for discussion during a meeting between government ministers ...
Shun pesticides and go organic, say activists
In a bid to eradicate pesticides from farming in India, the Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture (ASHA) has started ...
Prairie cordgrass: Potential for energy crop
When D.K. Lee and Lane Rayburn, faculty members in the crop sciences department at the University of Illinois, talk about ...
Africa: EC contributes 5 million euros to help farmers maintain crop diversity
The European Commission is contributing more than €5 million (6.5 million dollars) towards the Benefit-sharing Fund of the International Treaty ...
Science Minister: more focus needed on agricultural research, including GM
Britain must place a renewed focus on agricultural research including GM projects, or risk falling behind other countries like Brazil, ...
Just Label It urges defeat of Farmers Assurance Bill
Just Label It, the national coalition for genetically engineered (GE) food labeling, urged Americans to fight special interests in Washington ...
Greenpeace only has scare tactics against GMOs, claims previous Greenpeace member
Environmental activists scare the world’s population against biotechnology based on fiction, said Patrick Moore, Ph.D., a founder of Greenpeace and ...
Chewing over GM labels
Mandatory labelling of genetically modified (GM) products is likely to increase costs across the value chain, an executive of Canadian ...
Part II: How biotech corn and roundup ready soy work – And why they should not scare you
In Part II of his series of articles responding to anti-biotech activists, Professor Michael Eisen explains the reasons why GM ...
Advocacy NGOs spread grass GM scare, but facts prevail
CBS news reporter, Alix Bryan posted a story about a herd of cattle in Elgin, Texas supposedly poisoned by cyanide ...
Keeping the green in putting greens
An ARS researcher has developed a tool to more accurately identify non-uniform plants that can adversely affect the appearance and ...
New GM industry push in the UK
BBC Radio 4 reported in its headlines this morning that the Agriculture Biotechnology Council had published a new report "Going ...
Energy beet project moves forward
An energy beet project is going toward planned commercialization in 2014 in North Dakota, despite the loss of a key ...
Uganda may allow genetically modified crops to boost production
Uganda is considering a law to allow genetically modified crops to boost production, according to an industry group supporting biotech ...
GMO labels limit choices, hurt the poor
To build support for the California GMO labeling law, NGOs and activist groups have played on consumer fears about a ...
Asiatic pear genome sequenced
The first sequencing of the Asiatic pear genome has recently been completed by an international consortium of seven worldwide universities ...
Part 1: GMOs: Gene transfer is neither unnatural nor dangerous
Anti-agricultural biotech NGOs and activists raise a common and familiar set of fears in the campaign to get biotech foods ...
Govt should promote GM crops to meet food demand, say GM supporters
In a bid to meet the food security needs of Pakistan’s growing population, the participants at a seminar urged the ...
Time for a re-think on GM crops?
What would it take to break the impasse on GM crops? That's a problem that has been exercising minds at ...
Genetic control of germination in plant
The tiny seeds of the obligate root parasitic plants of the Orobanchaceae do not germinate unless they detect chemical signals ...
Monsanto crop bans by courts would be reversed in bill
A House of Representatives committee voted to let farmers grow genetically modified crops developed by Monsanto Co. (MON) and its ...
Plea for allowing research trial on developing genetic crops
Government should allow scientists to conduct research trials for developing genetically modified crops and ensure technology is taken to the ...
