Daily Food & Agriculture Digest
Every day, the staff of the Genetic Literacy Project scours the Web for stories on a range of agricultural and food issues, including the GMO debate, conventional and organic farming, regulations, new breeding technologies and sustainability. We publish excerpts of those stories and encourage our readers to visit the original publications for the complete stories.
As food shortage worsens, Zimbabwe refuses GMO food aid, has to import food from afar
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The El Niño-induced drought is ...
India’s farmer-friendly federal budget attempts to alleviate farmer suicide epidemic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Last month, India unveiled its latest ...
Drought tolerant rice varieties offered to Asian farmers struggling with El Niño’s low rainfall
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Philippine Rice Research Institute ...
Do GMO labels address food issues consumers care about?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Both the pro-labeling and ...
GMO, BPA, or gluten-free, processed food is still not that healthy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Americans these days don’t ...
According to major seed companies, agriculture’s next boom may be in Africa
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The 48 countries that ...
Multiple studies, with and without conflicts of interest, find no glyphosate in breast milk
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The herbicide glyphosate does not ...
Fact checking Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Following Here & Now host Jeremy ...
There are many ways to genetically modify plants, and most of our food uses at least one
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Anti-GM dogma is obscuring ...
U.S. Appeals Court will hear 3 cases testing counties authority to regulate GMO farming
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The 9th U.S. Circuit ...
Scientists in Myanmar field test GMO groundnut
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Testing of a high-yield ...
Tom Philpott: GMOs safe, but pesticide concerns argue for ‘right to know’ labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Over the past few ...
Chef Tom Colicchio, Rep. Pingree lead group to convert Cuba into major US organic supplier
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Cuban farms could one ...
GMOs could address climate change but campaigning NGOs blocking it
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Biotechnology is a platform ...
EU delays decision on whether gene edited crops fall under existing GMO laws
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The European Commission has ...
Denver Post editorial: In banning GMO crops, Boulder County organic activists overrun science
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Farmers must overcome damaging ...
To maintain yields without herbicides, U.S. would need 55 million laborers to hand weed crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Do you ever wonder ...
Five common myths about Monsanto
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As a liberal and ...
Activists sue FDA, claim agency has no authority to approve genetically modified animals
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Environmental groups filed a ...
Big Food companies voluntarily labeling GMO products in U.S. will not label them in Canada
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Companies planning to voluntarily ...
Nigerian textile industry says approval of GMO cotton will create jobs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. More than 500,000 Nigerians ...
Will GMO labeling deprive anti-GMO activists of their best ammunition?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It would appear that ...
Anti-GMO activist’s talk moved from museum after failure to produce supporting data
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The story was a ...
Mark Lynas: Anti-GMO, anti-vaccine movements are linked
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . ...
EPA’s management of herbicide resistance in weeds will be investigated
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Herbicide-resistant weed worries continue ...
Indian farmer’s associations demand government approve GMO mustard
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [On March 30] A ...
Maryland expected to ban neonicotinoids in household pesticides
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The [bee]keepers joined academics ...
