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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Gene edited tomatoes could produce natural colorings to replace dyes used to colorize farmed fish
In the wild, fish such as salmon or trout eat crustaceans or insects with natural pigments that lend their flesh ...
Viewpoint: With yield boost over organics of 33 percent, genetic engineering offers developing world chance at food security
Hunger and population outgrowing food supply have been an age-long issue. The English scholar and cleric, Thomas Malthus raised the ...
Viewpoint: Organic milk offers no nutritional or safety advantages over conventional counterpart and is more expensive
While fewer people are drinking milk overall these days, organic milk is holding steady in Canada’s $5-billion organic industry, with ...
‘Power of genetics’: Seed industry sees plant breeding innovation as key to sustainable agriculture
“Innovations in plant breeding are enabling us to develop plants that meet the needs of a changing world,” said President ...
Viewpoint: Anti-GMO activists crave a return to ‘simpler times’ in farming. Here’s why that would be disastrous.
The appeal of simpler times, as imagined by wealthy white guys ...
Viewpoint: Neonicotinoid use on field crops should be reined in
Planting season for corn and soybeans across the U.S. corn belt is drawing to a close. As they plant, farmers are participating ...
Viewpoint: Here’s why organic farming needs GMOs
“Civilization has been built on genetically modified plants.” — Nina V. Fedoroff, Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientists View of Genetically ...
17 million farmers around the world grew GMO crops in 2017, industry studies show
[T]he International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) and PG Economics, Ltd. released new studies highlighting the continued ...
Impossible Foods: Friends of the Earth is ‘anti-science fundamentalist’ group
For more than a year, the non-governmental organization Friends of the Earth (FOE) has been trying to malign and defame ...
‘Environmental progress without organic’: Rachel Carson’s testy relationship with the organic food and farming movement
Rachel Carson, who launched the modern environmental movement with her 1962 book “Silent Spring,” was a highly private person. But ...
Finless Foods: Lab-grown fish startup that uses genetic engineering nears commercialization
Finless Foods – one of a new wave of start-ups in the rapidly heating-up cultured fish arena - has raised ...
Gene discovery could make GMO poplar trees a renewable source of biofuels
For decades, biologists have believed a key enzyme in plants had one function—produce amino acids, which are vital to plant ...
Agroecology advocates urge global shift away from ‘unsustainable industrial agriculture’
Input-intensive crop monocultures and industrial-scale feedlots must be consigned to the past in order to put global food systems onto ...
After Bayer-Monsanto merger, will ‘big ag’ invest in big data?
The merger has been a laboured one: in order to please regulators, Bayer had to sell its seed and herbicide ...
Video: Can blight-resistant GMO trees save the American Chestnut?
The American Chestnut tree used to be a staple in American forests until it essentially became extinct due to blight ...
Viewpoint: Regulatory hurdles, anti-GMO activists stymie adoption of sustainable crop biotechnology innovations in developing world
Ever-more powerful genetic technologies, such as genome-editing endonucleases and marker-assisted breeding, continue to facilitate the development of genetically modified (GM) ...
Cell free proteins? Unraveling the mysteries of the plant circadian clock
The basic unit of life is the cell; tiny, fatty, self-replicating bubbles that have adapted to fill almost every environment ...
Viewpoint: How the organic industry spreads ‘fake science’
This fact sheet describes the contents of an organic industry confidential public relations plan to spread fake science in its ...
Green revolution: Indian farmers advocate for legalization of GMO mustard, biotech crops
A new green revolution is in the making. Farmers in India are now using social media to promote and advocate ...
Argentinian government approves genetically modified glyphosate-resistant alfalfa
[On June 9th], the Argentinian government approved the first transgenic alfalfa for the country with resistance to the glyphosate herbicide and with ...
How to outwit weeds: Genetically engineered cotton that feeds on phosphite, an alternative, sustainable fertilizer
Wily weeds can develop resistance to herbicides, allowing them to compete with genetically modified crops designed to tolerate weed-killing chemicals ...
‘Super bacteria’ could boost crop yields and reduce nitrogen pollution
Bioscientist Dr. Ted Cocking, from the Centre for Crop Nitrogen Fixation in the UK, was the first to unlock the ...
Why is the first US genetically engineered salmon farm in Indiana?
The first genetically-modified animal for human consumption could be arriving in grocery stores across the United States as early as ...
Viewpoint: What Charles Mann’s ‘Wizard and Prophet’ book gets wrong about food and agriculture
I've been reading Charles Mann's latest book Wizards and Prophets, which was released earlier this year. ... While I thought the ...
Debunking the myth that India is awash in pesticides
India has made rapid progress in the field of agriculture in recent years. Unfortunately, this largely remains unknown and uncelebrated ...
Will Gene Editing and Other New Breeding Techniques Provide a ‘Second Chance’ for Worldwide Embrace of Genetically Engineered Crops?
Jon Entine, Executive Director of the Genetic Literacy Project | June 13, 2018Highlights: Anti-GMO activists, aided by Russian propaganda, have ...
Impossible Foods hits back at Grub Street article questioning Impossible Burger’s safety
Impossible Foods is a disruptive company with an urgent mission to make meat better. Mainstream and social media play a critical ...
