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.
Plea for allowing research trial on developing genetic crops
Government should allow scientists to conduct research trials for developing genetically modified crops and ensure technology is taken to the ...
Overcoming obstacles to GM crop adoption
This policy brief, published by the UK's Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), examines the potential benefits and challenges ...
Canada’s swine genetics industry poised to help feed growing population
Last week’s announcement that the Ukrainian market has opened to live swine and swine genetics is a step in the ...
GMOs, fastest path to enhanced ag productivity in Africa
Executive Director at the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), Dr. Denis Kyetere, has said improved seeds, especially by genetic modification ...
Govt should promote GM crops to meet food demand, say GM supporters
In a bid to meet the food security needs of Pakistan’s growing population, the participants at a seminar urged the ...
Time for a re-think on GM crops?
What would it take to break the impasse on GM crops? That's a problem that has been exercising minds at ...
Asiatic pear genome sequenced
The first sequencing of the Asiatic pear genome has recently been completed by an international consortium of seven worldwide universities ...
Genetically modified grass blamed for mass cattle deaths in Texas
A form of genetically modified grass is being cited as the likely culprit in the sudden death of a herd ...
Farmers call for promoting genetically-modified crops
Agricultural scientists on Thursday urged the government for policy interventions and promoting biotechnology and genetically-modified crops to meet the challenges ...
GE food labeling rejected by American Medical Association
The American Medical Association House of Delegates adopted a formal statement in opposition to the mandatory labeling of genetically engineered, ...
GM crops may be grown during lawsuits
The House of Representatives voted this week to allow farmers to grow genetically modified crops from Monsanto while any lawsuits ...
Monsanto defends GMO soy royalties in Brazil court
U.S. biotechnology company Monsanto Co is defending its right in Brazil to apply royalties to its patented Roundup Ready soybeans, ...
GM cotton problems, letter from GM doubter
Encouraging predator insects is crucial to managing crop pests sustainably – indeed, that's how organic farmers avoid pesticides, using natural ...
Genetically modified India
The debate over regulating genetically modified crops in India is back after two years of silence that followed the moratorium ...
Sorghum should be in the biofuel crop mix, experts say
Sweet and biomass sorghum would meet the need for next-generation biofuels to be environmentally sustainable, easily adopted by producers and ...
Congress sides with Monsanto over GMO battle
Biotech giants Monsanto were awarded a victory by lawmakers in Washington this week after a congressional panel voted to let ...
How Bt corn And Roundup ready soy work – And why they should not scare you
Last week I wrote about the anti-science campaign being waged by opponents of the use of genetically modified organisms in ...
Brazil and GMO trees
"Much of the research on GE trees in Brazil is focused on eucalyptus trees, which are being engineered for faster ...
GM crops not such a scourge after all
No matter where one stands on the Genetically-Modified (GM) food divide, a new study appearing in the journal Nature provides ...
GM-feed may harm animals’ reproduction
Russian scientists have proven the existence of very serious health risks for animals given genetically modified (GM) feed. This statement ...
Trouble on the horizon for GM crops?
Pests are adapting to genetically modified crops in unexpected ways, researchers have discovered. The findings underscore the importance of closely ...
Biofuel crops can bring invasive weed risk
One of the most popular biofuels crops is giant miscanthus (Miscanthus × giganteus). This fast-growing hybrid is unable to produce ...
Danish deal on GM crops fails
A Danish plan to break the deadlock in Europe over genetically modified crop cultivation has failed ...
Agent Orange corn’ thrills farmers, worries critics
There is a controversy in the food industry over so-called “Agent Orange corn.” The genetically modified vegetable is protected from ...
Castor bean moving forward on new biodiesel crop opportunity
Center for Jatropha Promotion & Biodiesel (CJP) has been promoting the farming of castor bean, a seed producing plant that ...
India: ‘GM’ label on packaged food soon
Soon Indian consumers will have the opportunity to know whether the packaged food that they are buying contains genetically modified ...
GM crops, organic food, & delicious irony
One of the hallmarks of the organic food movement is a wholesale rejection of much of the agricultural technology – ...
