Daily Food & Ag 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.
India clarifies some patent issues, pushes domestic development of GMO cotton varieties
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. With US-based seed giant ...
Universities luring young people back to farming with ‘sustainable agriculture’ degree programs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . .[C]ould ...
South African women enjoy time and labor saving benefits of GMO maize
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . .Although ...
Insect resistant GMO soybeans dramatically reducing pesticide use in Brazil
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto Co.’s new Intacta ...
Senate passes bill giving biotech and other companies more power to protect trade secrets
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Senate has unanimously ...
Filipino farmers’ testimony blunts court’s attempt to block GMO farming
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The good news is ...
Does regulatory process stifle biotechnology innovation, economic growth?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The basic tenets of ...
Could genetically engineering key species allow endangered habitats to survive climate change?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Whitham is studying the ...
With USDA support, organic farming shows record growth
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The U.S. Department of ...
Senate battle over GMO labeling stalls
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Senate’s return from ...
Colorado academics speak out against Boulder GMO ban
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's note: On March 17, ...
Monsanto shifts focus away from finances to farming, technology, chemicals and Big Data
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After years of pursuit ...
A case for regulating genetically engineered animals like GMO crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Over the past 20 ...
Bill for national GMO labeling standard continues to stall in senate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Time apart doesn’t seem ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
