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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Will CRISPR’s promise force the organic industry to reconsider its opposition to gene-edited crops?
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Food safety officials reject Golden Rice-cancer link as Philippines inches toward commercializing the GMO crop
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Tyson Foods’ plant-based ‘chicken’ nuggets now sold in 7,000 stores
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Monsanto’s GMO soybean as safe as conventional counterpart, EU Food Safety Authority confirms
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Mandatory calorie counts on fast-food menus have little impact on customer purchases, latest study finds
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Can TELA maize solve the acute food shortages in sub-Saharan Africa?
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Viewpoint: Intensive ‘industrial’ agriculture boosts farm productivity, promotes environmental sustainability
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Golden Rice: The GMO crop loved by humanitarians, opposed by Greenpeace
Golden Rice is back in the news as the Philippines and Bangladesh move closer towards approval of the GMO food ...
Kenya needs to overcome inhibitions about GMOs, official says
Efforts to “put technologies in the hands of farmers that protect against drought and insects cannot be taken lightly.” ...
‘Post-organic produce’: Expanding indoor farming industry aims to make agriculture more sustainable
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Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods eye 2020 expansion into China as plant-based meat market approaches $140 billion
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DNA sequencing uncovers genes that could yield bigger, sweeter, crispier watermelon
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Eat your veggies! California testing confirms organic and conventional produce well below EPA pesticide limits
Once again, evidence that our food supply is safe and incredibly diverse ...
Steak from protein powder: Next generation of lab-grown foods on the horizon
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GMO Golden Rice lauded as one of the most important research projects over the past 50 years
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Meet the ‘flavorists’: Food chemists who make plant-based Beyond, Impossible burgers taste like ‘meat’
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Video: ‘If I don’t farm, we won’t eat’: Kenyan farmer illustrates the impact of crop disease in Africa
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‘Artificial leaf’ converts CO2 into biofuel, potential new strategy in battle to slow climate change
Scientists have created an “artificial leaf” to fight climate change by inexpensively converting harmful carbon dioxide (CO2) into a useful ...
Microsoft previews ‘data-driven’ farming platform as solution to global food demand boom
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Farmers know switch to organic means lower yields, but expect price premium to make up for losses
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Viewpoint: World must embrace CRISPR, synthetic biology to boost food production in the face of climate change
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Severe drought threatens food security in sub–Saharan Africa
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Sterile GMO grass could provide sustainable biofuel, cut water use on golf courses
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Genetic tweak doubles yields of sorghum, globally important food source, in new study
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Viewpoint: Developing countries need GMO, gene-edited crops to solve food security challenges
With a ballooning population and climate change, genetic engineering is needed now more than ever ...
78% of soybean, 76% of cotton grown globally in 2018 were GMO, as farmers continued adopting biotech crops
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Video: ‘Blood on their hands’—Greens’ resistance to biotechnology blocks sustainable agriculture, climate change innovation, says GLP’s Jon Entine
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