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.
Rice lands on the radar of GMO researchers
On most GI charts, as illustrated on the Harvard Medical School website, the GI score for rice is an average ...
Beets root of fuel source
A biofuel company hopes plots of high-sugar “energy beets” will fuel an ethanol project ...
The issue that won’t go away: Farm biotechnology
Covering farm technology means being on the scene with ag biotech too. From the first days of tomatoes that had ...
Advanced techniques could propel crop improvement
Scientists could take greater strides toward crop improvement if there were wider adoption of advanced techniques used to understand the ...
Romania and GMOs: An anti-GMO stance for Romania
Let us first state that this is not an anti-genetically modified organisms article. Given the right biotechnology, at the right ...
GMO mosquitoes saving lives in Brazil
When it comes to life or death, genetically modified organisms win out over leaving the environment untouched, and those with ...
Call to push GM crops to boost farm output
The need for the application of new technologies to increase farm output and seed yields, including genetically modified crops, was ...
Yak genome provides new insights into high altitude adaptation
Scientists have completed the genomic sequence and analyses of a female domestic yak, which provides important insights into understanding mammalian ...
France’s Le Foll to keep biotech-crops ban, Le Monde says
French Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll wants to keep the country’s moratorium on existing genetically-modified crops, Le Monde said, citing ...
Cloned meat, milk as safe as traditional: EU Food Agency
Europe's food safety regulator said Thursday that food products like milk and meat from cloned farm animals are just as ...
GM food protest
SPORTING bakers' hats, aprons and wooden spoons, a coach-load of Totnes residents joined a national protest in Harpenden, Hertsfordshire, against ...
Canada: Growers say survey shows consumers oppose GM
Orchardists in Okanaga say they have all the evidence they need to fight the introduction of GM fruit. A national ...
GM food labelling poses many questions
While the new Labelling and Adver- tising of Foodstuffs Regulations (GN R146), which came into effect in March, is offering ...
Commentary: GMO grass mix-up is embarrassing
Last week, reports flew through over the internet and the social media universe that cows in Texas were dying from ...
GM canola contamination leads to court showdown
Australia's system of organic certification will come under intense scrutiny when two neighbouring farmers do battle in the Western Australian ...
Nigeria: ‘Nigeria needs biotechnology to avoid starvation’
The chairman Senate Committee on Capital Market, Senator Ayoade Ademola Adeseun, has said Nigeria needs biotechnology to save it from ...
Nigeria: Stakeholders challenge President Jonathan over agricultural biotechnology law
Stakeholders including members of the National Assembly have berated President Goodluck Jonathan over his inability to assent into law till ...
Chinese scientists identify yield-boosting rice gene
Researchers in China have identified a rice gene that could improve both the quality and yield of the staple crop ...
Pressure groups intensify campaign to derail GM guidance
Pressure groups Friends of the Earth (FoE) and GM Freeze have stepped up their campaign to derail EU safety guidelines ...
Genetically modified cotton gets high marks in India
Smallholder farmers in central and southern India who planted genetically modified (GM) cotton achieve larger yields, greater profits and a ...
Slow EU approvals seen growing threat to soy trade
Slow European Union approval of genetically modified soybeans is likely to pose a growing threat to trade as the pace ...
GMO ban: Risks for science-based assessments
French President François Hollande will face judicial problems over the ban on the cultivation of genetically modified plants, and this ...
Is Monsanto sabotaging efforts to label genetically modified food?
As the 2012 Farm Bill continues to take shape in the halls of the United States Congress, the immense influence ...
Amniotic fluid yields alternatives to embryonic stem cells
Stem cells found in amniotic fluid can be transformed into a more versatile state similar to embryonic stem cells, according ...
International experts analyse the socio-economic impacts of GM crops
The proceedings of an international workshop on the current state of play regarding research into economic impacts of GMO cultivation ...
Types and uses of cassava
The plant has certainly been “rediscovered” and in many countries significant research has begun to evaluate the use of cassava ...
Easy tracking of GM content
With debate about the safety of genetically modified (GM) crops, it is important for food processors to be able to ...
