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 research site hit by cyber attack
"The cyber-strike came after hundreds of protestors went to the agricultural research station in Hertfordshire to try to attack the ...
Maize diversity discoveries may help ease world’s hunger pangs
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, report that ancient farmers had a stronger impact on the evolution of maize, ...
Battle against GM soy intensifies in Brazil
Illegally smuggled into Brazil 14 years ago, transgenic soy has proved a boon to domestic farmers and now accounts for ...
Free trade and GM crops: Price sensitive European consumers, blocked from buying most GM products, are willing to buy innovative foods
While the political opposition to biotech crops in the European Union is well entrenched, consumers are willing to take a ...
Labeling of GMOs gains momentum
Despite the facade put in place by Monsanto that virtually all mainstream medical organizations believe there is no difference between ...
Could California force the rest of us to label GMO foods?
In November, California voters will decide on a ballot initiative that would require labeling of all foods containing ingredients from ...
Nobel biologist: Zero evidence that crop biotechnology is harmful; GM safer than conventional food
Sir Richard Roberts, a British biologist, joined a long and growing list of Nobel laureates, saying that he believes much ...
Africa: Ban on GMOs
The government has maintained a ban on imports of GM crop seeds and GM products. The ban on products is ...
GMOs: What are they and what’s all the fuss?
We hear a lot about Genetically Modified foods, or Genetically Modified Organisms - GMOs. But what exactly are they, and ...
Despite Alaskan Senator’s protests, GM food is old hat
Somebody please get Sen. Lisa Luddite Murkowski, R-Alaska, down off her high-flying Frankenfish. Enough with the pandering to Alaska commercial ...
20 years of GMO policy keeps Americans in the dark, says GMO opposer
Popular resistance is boiling over on the GMO labeling issue, as the New York Times reported last week in a ...
Africa: Biosafety regulators urged to strengthen links
In efforts to harmonise national biosafety regulations across Africa, the links between national regulatory authorities and key stakeholders must be ...
Are Pro-GMO scientists against chemical pesticides?
Even scientists promoting Bt eggplant are against excessive and injudicious use of chemical pesticides. In a press release, Dr. Emiliana ...
GM lobby still trying to force discredited GM foods, says GM opposer
Genetic modification was supposed to be the ground-breaking science of the future. Its magic wand would feed the world and ...
GM benefits are plain to see, comments GM supporter
IF CROP biotechnology had not been available to the 15.4 million farmers using it in 2010, maintaining global food production ...
It’s in the genes: Research pinpoints how plants know when to flower
Scientists believe they've pinpointed the last crucial piece of the 80-year-old puzzle of how plants "know" when to flower ...
Survey: Most see no need for biotech info on food labels
A new survey shows very few Americans cite biotechnology as an information need on food labels. Neither are most consumers ...
The inside story on the GM wheat trial debate
If the organisers of this weekend’s Take the Flour Back protest against the genetically modified wheat trial at Rothamsted in ...
Wal-Mart defies anti-biotech extremists, keeps sweet corn on market
Good for Wal-Mart! Despite intense pressure by anti-biotechnology activists, the retailing giant didn’t cave in to demands that it “reject” ...
Police keep anti-GM protestors in UK from destroying wheat crop
Police kept hundreds of protesters at bay as they attempted to destroy a field where genetically modified wheat is being ...
Britain’s Green Party promotes anti-science zealotry
This is one of those agonised posts. I actually like the Green Party. My dad used to be, and may ...
Activists in UK plan to trash crop experiment
For researchers at the UK's Rothamsted research center, the past few weeks must have felt like a train wreck in ...
Opponents of this crop trial are blind to the food crisis, says GM supporter
The battle over GM food has begun again and it seems there is little in common between those in favour ...
Genes culled from desert soils suggest potential medical resource
Despite their ecologic similarity, soils from three geographically distinct areas of the American southwest harbor vastly different collections of small, ...
Food security: Socio-econonomic and environmental impacts of crop biotechnology
The economic impact of crop biotechnology continued to grow, according to a recently released report. The growth was particularly dramatic ...
Soviet entrepreneur holds fate of GM salmon
If Americans ever eat genetically engineered fast-growing salmon, it might be because of a Soviet biologist turned oligarch turned government ...
The Geek Manifesto on GM crops
On Sunday, an anti-GM crop group called Take the Flour Back is planning a “day of mass decontamination” at the ...
