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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Genetically modified crops shrink farming’s pesticide footprint, says GM supporter
No wonder modern apocalyptic mythology about agriculture, sinister stories about pesticides and assertions that genetic engineering of crops break a ...
GM crops good for environment, study finds
Crops genetically modified to poison pests can deliver significant environmental benefits, according to a study spanning two decades and 1.5m ...
Russia to allow GMOs in order to enter WTO
As Russia aims to join the World Trade Organization, it is sweetening the deal by offering to drop its restrictions ...
California voters to decide on GMO labeling
The California Secretary of State's office has announced that the Right to Know initiative to label genetically engineered foods will ...
Germany to oppose easing of GM trace rules
Germany will oppose any European Union move to allow traces of unapproved genetically-modified (GM) organisms in food in a similar ...
Why genetically modified corn in Pakistan?
Biotechnology, an evolution of traditional agricultural methods and the fastest adopted crop technology in history, is not new to Pakistan ...
The new wave of herbicide-resistant crops
On May 23, 2012, John Rowan, national president of Vietnam Veterans of America, sent a letter to President Barack Obama ...
Use of GM to produce sterile male insects
Scientists at a British company have been able to genetically modify the Diamondback moth, one of the world’s most damaging ...
Cross-pollination of genetically modified food
When I first came across the topic of genetically modified food, I instantly imagined oversized vegetables on a crusade to ...
India: Move on GM crops provokes massive protests
The environment ministry's Genetic Engineering Approval Committee — meant to regulate GM crop release — has been hit with a ...
Africa: Gov’t takes measures to increase cotton production
The Government of Ghana has pledge its commitment towards the increment of cotton production in the country. To this end, ...
Italy: GMO field to be destroyed after being authorized 14 years ago
An experimental field of GMO plants, authorized in 1998 in Italy, is going to be destroyed during the next few ...
EU plans to let traces of unapproved GMOs in food
Tiny amounts of unapproved genetically modified organisms (GMOs) will be permitted in food imports to the European Union under draft ...
Should we label genetically modified food?
States--including California and Vermont--are considering laws that would require that genetically modified foods be clearly labeled on the packaging. Nationwide, ...
Genetic engineering turns mosquitoes into disease fighting weapons
Good intentions often go bad. Questions over the potential danger from spraying DDT to control malaria and other insect-borne scourges ...
USDA decides to fully deregulate sugar beets
The Department of Agriculture has found that GM beet crop, whose partial deregulation in 2005 was suspended by a federal ...
Campaign to label biotech foods a waste of time and money, says GM supporter
Occasionally you just have to stop and ask yourself what the public has against scientific progress; especially when it comes ...
U.S. House biotech proposal would bypass courts-critic
A provision in a U.S. House bill would allow farmers to grow genetically modified crops while court battles are under ...
Anti-GM group find drought-resistant GM corn lacking
The Union for Concerned Scientists (UCS) said the only genetically altered corn approved by regulators and undergoing field trials in ...
Nigeria: ‘Genetically modified foods safe for humans’
The National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) says consumption of Genetically Modified (GM) foods will not pose any threat to human ...
Creator of drought-tolerant corn says value is to be determined by farmers
The makers of the first corn genetically modified to be tolerant of drought said they are confident it will prove ...
Monsanto opposition criticizes Obama for leading company to Africa
Last week President Barack Obama announced a plan that puts Monsanto, as well as other large argi-businesses, in charge of ...
Genetically modified crops are, indeed different says GM critic
In the recent article in the Des Moines Register, “Ag critics called threat to economy” (April 6), Paul Shickler, Pioneer ...
Senate says GM salmon don’t need more testing, says Organic Consumers Association
Despite strong lobbying from northwestern senators for a measure that would require more testing of genetically engineered salmon before it's ...
Researcher to unravel mysteries of hot chile
A graduate student in New Mexico is setting out to unlock the genetics of the state’s signature crop – the ...
GM corn needs bigger refuges to slow pest resistance
Genetically modified crops that produce insect-killing proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) have reduced reliance on insecticide sprays since ...
Roundup Ready beets move closer to deregulation
A U.S. Department of Agriculture statement issued Friday marked another step that could fully deregulate Roundup Ready sugar beets, potentially ...
