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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Australian National Press Club: Sustainability benefits of industrial agriculture
In a nationally televised address, a call for intensifying the commitment to science based sustainable agriculture and genetic engineering--and a ...
Does the organic led anti-GMO campaign have race-related undertones?
The most visible symbol of the US organic movement calls the American food system "apartheid, food slavery and [a] food ...
How the ‘agroecology’ movement misrepresents ‘agroecology’ science
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The word "agroecology" is ...
EU committee rejects proposal to block extension of glyphosate authorization
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A key committee in ...
Talking Biotech: Critical need for biotech solutions in Uganda; reflecting on Ask Me Anything
Nassib Mugwanya on biotech solutions in Uganda; Kevin Folta, Jayson Merkley on Ask Me Anything forum ...
US overturns approval of sulfoxaflor, only neonicotinoid approved in EU
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A worldwide dispute over ...
Un-trendy reasons NOT to feed your family organic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When I read Mamavation's ...
Dangerous chemicals causing sex changes in frogs? Yes, natural ones
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It's not easy being ...
Anti-GMO activists use FOIA to bully mother-scientist nutrition and lactation expert
USRTK has wielded FOIA requests as a weapon to bully scientists. Michelle McGuire, a globally respected nutrition expert, is the ...
GMOs gaining favor in US, Australia has potential to lead in biotech if ‘hard choices’ made
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An American journalist, scholar ...
Talking Biotech: History lesson on tomatoes and biotech solution to breeding
Discussing tomato history with Sam Hutton; Diana Horvath on future of biotech tomato breeding ...
Synbio flavors are natural, sustainable and GMO free but won’t get Non-GMO stamp
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Synthetic biology will become ...
Parched Canadian summer spurs researchers to seek out tree seedlings with hardier DNA
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A search is underway ...
Corn: Balancing demands for food and biofuel tricky
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Corn is the main ...
Organic coop critical of GMOs joins Cornell bio group decrying censorship by anti-GMO activists
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Cornell Alliance for ...
GMOs and herbicide resistant weeds stumbling blocks to sustainable farming
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Have we become more ...
Anti-GMO myth busted—We’re not losing plant genetic diversity after all
Anti-GMO activists and even some science publications claim GMOs are accelerating the trend toward a drastic loss in biodiversity. They ...
Should GMO drugs be perceived differently than GMO food?
Many of the same people who express outrage over genetic modification because it 'tinkers with Nature' are silent or supportive ...
Left McCarthyism? SF Pacifica radio station KPFA blacklists scientist because he’s not anti-GMO
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The following is an ...
Activists pressure Costco, other retailers to boycott GMO salmon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Consumer groups are pressuring ...
Bees to birds: Have neonics and other pesticides ushered in a bird apocalypse?
The hysteria generated by a select group of advocacy scientists warning that bees are endangered is now being focused on ...
How to cut farm use of pesticides: GMO moths, but anti-biotech groups wary
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An invasive species, the diamondback ...
Activists warn Monsanto poised to become Big Veggie
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Broccoli, the original superfood, ...
Talking Biotech: Using spinach gene, GE citrus fights disease devastating Florida oranges
Orange producer Ricke Kress on how genetic engineering can defeat devastating citrus greening disease ...
Sustainable potato that resists blight given green light by USDA, but anti-GMO activists remain opposed
Sustainable potato that reduces browning and bruising and lowers presence of potentially cancer-causing chemical now has added benefit of resisting ...
GM technology increases drought tolerance by protecting roots
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Agriculture is estimated to ...
Global Food Series: How much do households from around the world spend on food?
In an absolute sense, the United States spends more per household on food consumed at home ($2,390 per year) than, ...
