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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Contrasting European Union and United States approaches toward sustainability and agricultural genetic modification
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Wild wheat: Genetically-tweaked varieties that are not just climate-resilient, but also environmentally regenerative or in the wings
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A lack of funding in agriculture is crippling Africa’s smallholder farms and exacerbating an already present food crisis
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Viewpoint: Here’s why we need a globalized regulatory standard for gene-edited crops
International Seed Federation members are calling for harmonised regulations on new breeding technologies such as genome editing to accelerate impactful ...
With only insect resistant Bt cotton approved, India set to address fate of genetically modified mustard and cotton
New Delhi: The government has begun the process of drafting its long-delayed policy on genetically modified (GM) crops, having set ...
6 novel ways technology is addressing ‘planetary problems’, from making bacon-tasting insects to turning food waste into energy
Demanding times call for adaptive measures. As the world faces escalating challenges, UBC researchers are thinking outside the box to ...
Is the public ready to eat bacon from a gene-edited pig? It’s closer than you think
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East African split on future of GM crops: Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda are planting while Congo, Rwanda Burundi, South Somalia and Tanzania remain hard against
The East African Community partner states have failed to strike consensus on the growing and use of genetically modified crops, ...
Enhanced creativity and improved focus: The rise of mushroom enhanced beverages is waking up public interest
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Is organic food healthier? European study says ‘yes’ in many cases, but are worse than conventional in others
In a recent review published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers compare the health impacts of consuming organic foods to ...
Do cage free egg hens really roam free outdoors? Challenging 10 egg myths
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Can AI and precision technology be integrated into most farm operations without lowering productivity?
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Sustainability will take a huge hit if Canada models its future agricultural production after Europe’s broken precautionary approach to innovation
The European Union is rejecting these proven strategies through policies that dramatically reduce fertilizer and chemical use and ban modern ...
Organic or conventional farming? Which system better preserves our fragile insect population
A three-year run of fragmentary Armageddon-like studies had primed the journalism pumps and settled the media framing about the future ...
Gluten-free wheat? Gene editing brings us one step closer to developing an alternative for people with Celiac Disease
Scientists from the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture and the University of the Basque Country in Spain demonstrate the potential of gene ...
Decentralizing cell meat production: Could farmers actually produce cultivated meat on their own farms?
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30 times increase in betacarotene in lettuce: Biofortification technique shown to dramatically increase a precursor to vitamin A
A research group from the Research Institute for Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMCP), a joint centre of the Spanish ...
‘Fearmongering’: Science magazine questions pediatrics academy’s recommendations to avoid foods with genetically modified ingredients
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A food of the future may already be here: The heat-resilient jackfruit variety breadfruit can survive erratic temperatures and hurricanes
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Canadian researchers in the early stages of developing effective and comparably inexpensive alternatives to glyphosate
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Why consumers don’t know or care about the ‘regenerative agriculture’ movement so popular in progressive circles
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A quarter of the world’s population eats insects almost daily. What would it take for you to join in the feast?
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Video: How Chinese firms finance litigation disrupting intellectual property in biotech and food distribution system
The commodification of lawsuit funding [...] opens the door to even more bad faith participation in the justice system. ...
