Sustainability/Climate Change
Food production needs are expected to roughly double over the next 35 years as the world population grows and people in under developed countries become more affluent and demand more calories. Healthy ecosystems are vital to the survival of all organisms. How can we grow crops without harming the environment? How can we balance technology and global food security? What is the right balance of organic and conventional farming? What role can genetics and biotechnology play without compromising the needs of tomorrow?
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Armyworms ravaging African staple crops: GM insect resistant crops offer a solution
[Editor's note: The following is an interview with Kenneth Wilson, professor at the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University.] A combination of ...
Bee crisis? How intelligent sticky drones could buzz alongside nature’s pollinators
Tiny drones dressed in horsehair and coated with a sticky goo have been attempting to pollinate lilies in a Japanese ...
Without Glyphosate, What Would Farming Look Like?
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To help bees and farmers, EU should roll back ‘fear-based’ ban on neonicotinoid pesticides
[Editor's note: The following is a letter by David Zaruk, Belgian-based environmental-health journalist specializing in science and public policy, to Vytenis ...
Scotland’s first minister: GMO ban will remain post-Brexit
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon extolled the importance of scientific advice in policy-making yet insisted her Government had no plans to ...
Trump Administration has opportunity to base biotech regulations on science, not fears
At least when it comes to biotechnology, the president's order freezing recent regulations provides a chance to get regulations right ...
Talking Biotech: Clay nanoparticles deliver plants gene-silencing virus-protecting RNA spray
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Were ‘activist scientists’ behind European Union neonicotinoids ban?
[Editor's note: Henry Miller is a physician and molecular biologist who was the founding director of the FDA’s Office of Biotechnology.] ...
Nigerian biotech expert says GMOs won’t replace conventional seeds, refutes common GMO myths
[Editor's note: The following is an interview with Rose Gidado, Country Coordinator of the Open Forum for Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB) in ...
New GMO book shifts debate from science to fears of ‘corporate control’ of food and farming
The Pew Research Center recently polled Americans on their concerns about genetically modified foods. Predictably, given the popular consternation around ...
Transparency Is Key To Consumer Acceptance Of New Technology
Can gene-editing technology avoid the stigma associated with GMOs? Center for Food Integrity research says food and agricultural companies must ...
Iowa farmer debunks 8 popular myths about GMOs
[Editor's note: Michelle Miller, known on social media as the Farm Babe, raises lamb and beef cattle, and grows almost ...
High-yield, environmentally-friendly GMO ryegrass moved to US for field trials due to New Zealand’s strict biotech laws
Genetically modified grass that could lower farming's environmental footprint will be taken offshore next year for field testing. Developed by ...
Will – And Should – Gene Edited Animals Be Regulated?
Regulations proposed by the FDA on the final day of the Obama Administration suggest the agency wants to regulate gene ...
Non-browning Arctic Apple rollout foreshadows more genetically engineered fruits and vegetables
Advances like gene silencing and other gene editing methods, like CRISPR technology, make biotech plant breeding cheaper and more precise than the ...
As food insecurity rises in Zimbabwe, so do calls to repeal GMO ban
Food is scarce in [Domboshava]... Weather changes, including harsher winters and shorter rainy seasons, have compromised the earth's soil so ...
Here’s the truth about the non-browning Arctic Apple
[Editor's note: The story is a response to a February 2, 2016, post on STAT news written by a campaigner with ...
Will Biotechnology Regulations Squelch Food and Farming Innovation?
The GLP's 18-part 5-week series -- GMO: Beyond the Science -- begins with a look at the regulatory web that ...
Talking Biotech: Why broccoli, collard greens, kale and other brassica are like dog breeds
University of Missouri biologist J. Chris Pires discusses the many vegetables that began as Brassica oleacea--wild cabbage ...
Why Brazil’s cocoa market crashed–and how genetics is reviving it
Editor's note: This article describes a study by researchers at the University of Campinas’s Biology Institute and was published in ...
Friends of the Earth activist campaigner calls for increased regulation of ‘GMO 2.0’ gene edited food
Editor's note: Dana Perls is the senior food and technology campaigner for Friends of the Earth, you can read GLP's profile ...
UK votes support for first GMO crop since 1998, breaking with EU
A UK vote to approve EU proposals to authorise the first new GM crops for cultivation since 1998 suggests the ...
Cheaper blue jeans that are better for the environment? Genetic engineering can make it happen
Editor's note: This piece is written by Dr. Miller, a physician and molecular biologist, who was the founding director of the ...
Scientist for hire? Does anti-neonic activist David Goulson produce pre-determined ‘research’ for funders?
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Monoculture: Is it really the problem ‘intensive agriculture’ critics make it out to be?
Editor's note: The author of this piece is Andrew Kniss, associate professor of weed biology & ecology at the University of Wyoming ...
Wisconsin farm couple to Rachel Ray: Stop spreading pseudo-science about antibiotics in milk
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‘Super yield’ GMO wheat gets green light for field trials in UK over critics’ objections
The GM wheat has been engineered to use sunlight more efficiently and has boosted greenhouse yields by up to 40%. Researchers ...
