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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Expert warns of illegal GM papaya on EU market
Food Navigator are reporting a warning from Richard Werran of the GM testing firm Cert ID that a wave of ...
DNA scissors developed at Berkeley lab
Following a study that could have significant implications for the fields of genetic engineering and genomics research, investigators at the ...
Kenya: Importers oppose conditions on GMOs
A year after the government put labeling regulations on importation of all Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) Products, the Cereal Millers ...
Taking the bite out of GM apples
A small BC company called Okanagan Specialty Fruits (OSF) has developed a genetically modified apple that will not turn brown ...
Protests set for Food Prize events
The Occupy movement will target what Cordaro called “the corporate ownership of the World Food Prize, especially its dominance by ...
Cultivation of cotton goes up in EG
The cultivation of genetically modified (BACILLUS Thuringiensis) BT-2 cotton has increased substantially in East Godavari district this current season as ...
The catfish solution
It’s not often we get to use the words “good news” and “farm bill” in the same sentence, but even ...
Mutation that makes tomatoes bland identified as gene deliberately bred for color
Plant geneticists say they have discovered an answer to a near universal question: Why are tomatoes usually so tasteless? ...
More countries ban GMOs
While the use of GM crops is rapidly taking over the world, some countries have taken the bold step to ...
Unlikely support for Bt/GM crops
The Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) bacteria protein in plants have not harmed monarch butterflies, honey bees, rats or shown up in ...
GM food that prevents cancer, makes you healthier?
There is a lot of reasonable debate about the safety of changing the genetic makeup of things we eat, but ...
Kenya: Why Kenya has to adopt biotechnology in farming
Today a new revolution is knocking at Africa's door-agricultural biotechnology. It promises to do for agriculture what mobile technology has ...
Asia–Pacific Analysis: Plan for growth in biotech crops
Since biotechnology-derived crops were introduced in 1996, they have been adopted at an unprecedented rate, according to the 2011 annual ...
Cows genetically modified to produce healthier milk
Chinese scientists have developed and unveiled a genetically modified cow whose milk they claim is healthier, triggering fresh alarm over ...
Prairie cordgrass: Potential for energy crop
When D.K. Lee and Lane Rayburn, faculty members in the crop sciences department at the University of Illinois, talk about ...
Ministers meet farming leaders to discuss GMs
The future of GM crops in Britain will be a key subject for discussion during a meeting between government ministers ...
Africa: EC contributes 5 million euros to help farmers maintain crop diversity
The European Commission is contributing more than €5 million (6.5 million dollars) towards the Benefit-sharing Fund of the International Treaty ...
