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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GMOs, fastest path to enhanced ag productivity in Africa
Executive Director at the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), Dr. Denis Kyetere, has said improved seeds, especially by genetic modification ...
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 ...
Farmers call for promoting genetically-modified crops
Agricultural scientists on Thursday urged the government for policy interventions and promoting biotechnology and genetically-modified crops to meet the challenges ...
GE food labeling rejected by American Medical Association
The American Medical Association House of Delegates adopted a formal statement in opposition to the mandatory labeling of genetically engineered, ...
GM crops may be grown during lawsuits
The House of Representatives voted this week to allow farmers to grow genetically modified crops from Monsanto while any lawsuits ...
GM cotton problems, letter from GM doubter
Encouraging predator insects is crucial to managing crop pests sustainably – indeed, that's how organic farmers avoid pesticides, using natural ...
Monsanto defends GMO soy royalties in Brazil court
U.S. biotechnology company Monsanto Co is defending its right in Brazil to apply royalties to its patented Roundup Ready soybeans, ...
Australian farmer: Don’t let the biotech revolution leave us behind
In southern Australia, the soil there is some of the driest in all of the world. To cope with drought ...
Genetically modified India
The debate over regulating genetically modified crops in India is back after two years of silence that followed the moratorium ...
American Medical Association comes out against GMO labeling
On June 19, the American Medical Association adopted a policy statement that says “there is no scientific justification for special ...
Sorghum should be in the biofuel crop mix, experts say
Sweet and biomass sorghum would meet the need for next-generation biofuels to be environmentally sustainable, easily adopted by producers and ...
Congress sides with Monsanto over GMO battle
Biotech giants Monsanto were awarded a victory by lawmakers in Washington this week after a congressional panel voted to let ...
How Bt corn And Roundup ready soy work – And why they should not scare you
Last week I wrote about the anti-science campaign being waged by opponents of the use of genetically modified organisms in ...
Brazil and GMO trees
"Much of the research on GE trees in Brazil is focused on eucalyptus trees, which are being engineered for faster ...
Biofuel crops can bring invasive weed risk
One of the most popular biofuels crops is giant miscanthus (Miscanthus × giganteus). This fast-growing hybrid is unable to produce ...
GM-feed may harm animals’ reproduction
Russian scientists have proven the existence of very serious health risks for animals given genetically modified (GM) feed. This statement ...
Trouble on the horizon for GM crops?
Pests are adapting to genetically modified crops in unexpected ways, researchers have discovered. The findings underscore the importance of closely ...
GM crops not such a scourge after all
No matter where one stands on the Genetically-Modified (GM) food divide, a new study appearing in the journal Nature provides ...
India: ‘GM’ label on packaged food soon
Soon Indian consumers will have the opportunity to know whether the packaged food that they are buying contains genetically modified ...
GM crops, organic food, & delicious irony
One of the hallmarks of the organic food movement is a wholesale rejection of much of the agricultural technology – ...
Agent Orange corn’ thrills farmers, worries critics
There is a controversy in the food industry over so-called “Agent Orange corn.” The genetically modified vegetable is protected from ...
Is adoption of Bt cotton an indicator of its success?
Very often, it is argued by biotech proponents and others that the very adoption of Bt cotton in India is ...
GM crops, organic food, & delicious irony
One of the hallmarks of the organic food movement is a wholesale rejection of much of the agricultural technology – ...
GM crops, organic food, & delicious irony
One of the hallmarks of the organic food movement is a wholesale rejection of much of the agricultural technology – ...
GM crops, organic food, & delicious irony
One of the hallmarks of the organic food movement is a wholesale rejection of much of the agricultural technology – ...
