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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DNA scissors developed at Berkeley lab
Following a study that could have significant implications for the fields of genetic engineering and genomics research, investigators at the ...
Expert warns of illegal GM papaya on EU market
Food Navigator are reporting a warning from Richard Werran of the GM testing firm Cert ID that a wave of ...
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 ...
Mutation that makes tomatoes bland identified as gene deliberately bred for color
Plant geneticists say they have discovered an answer to a near universal question: Why are tomatoes usually so tasteless? ...
More countries ban GMOs
While the use of GM crops is rapidly taking over the world, some countries have taken the bold step to ...
Cultivation of cotton goes up in EG
The cultivation of genetically modified (BACILLUS Thuringiensis) BT-2 cotton has increased substantially in East Godavari district this current season as ...
Protests set for Food Prize events
The Occupy movement will target what Cordaro called “the corporate ownership of the World Food Prize, especially its dominance by ...
The catfish solution
It’s not often we get to use the words “good news” and “farm bill” in the same sentence, but even ...
Genetic discovery could make more tomatoes taste like heirlooms
Genetic modification of food has happened for thousands of year. Tomatoes would still be the size of your thumb without ...
Can GMOs save us from climate change?
Malnutrition and starvation are problems that occur all over the world, primarily in developing countries. In coming years, as climate ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
