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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Viewpoint: Organic industry misleads consumers with fear, unethical sales tactics
[Editor’s note: Michelle Miller, the "Farm Babe", is an Iowa-based farmer, public speaker and writer.] While acting like the “little guy” ...
Viewpoint: Anti-GMO online series promotes fear and ‘less sustainable’ farming
Works like the recently released "GMOs Revealed" are making it more difficult for new agricultural techniques to gain widespread acceptance ...
Disease-resistant cassava research advances could help African farmers
Why are these two cassava varieties—Namikonga and Albert—grown by farmers in Tanzania, able to withstand the devastating Cassava Brown Streak ...
Non-patented, non-GMO herbicide resistant rice in development
A consortium of scientists led the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore has identified a novel mutant of rice which ...
Monsanto targets bee-killing varroa mites through RNA interference
The 11th annual national survey of honey bee colonies was recently released and reports of seasonal honey bee losses across ...
Viewpoint: Food security decisions—like GMO salmon approval—shouldn’t be left to pubic’s whims
[What] the [food sector] is expecting AquaBounty to do is to step out into the cold and take account of ...
Video: How insect-resistant Bt GMO eggplant rescued Bangladesh’s staple crop
[Editor’s note: Pamela Ronald is plant pathologist and geneticist. She is a professor in the Genome Center and the Department ...
Hidden hunger: How anti-GMO activists are blocking humanitarian biofortification in Africa and Asia
Many crops grown in the developing world are deficient in nutritional qualities--which makes biofortification critical if we hope to improve ...
Impossible Foods opens first facility to produce ‘veggie burger that bleeds’ thanks to GM yeast
[September 7th marked] the opening of Impossible Foods’ new East Oakland plant, meaning that the cult veggie burger that San ...
Korean agricultural research agency stops GM crop commercialization after anti-GMO protests
The Rural Development Agency (RDA) released a statement on September 1 declaring its decision to halt its efforts to foster ...
Viewpoint: Pakistan needs GM technology—not just fertilizer—to ensure food security
By adopting modern practices like use of genetically modified (GM) seeds, countries such as India, China and Bangladesh have succeeded ...
Clean meat: Scientists serve up 100% real meat without cruelty, limited resources
The argument that “meat is murder” could become a thing of the past, thanks to groundbreaking technology that produces real ...
Video: How plants use natural chemicals and other defenses to protect against pests
For the most part, plants appear to be harmless and passive organisms at the lowest rung of the food ...
Could Bt African bollworm-resistant GMO cotton revive Kenya’s flagging industry?
Kenya National Society for Biotech Farming (KNSBF) chairman Daniel Mugo Magondu said farmers have abandoned the cash crop in droves ...
Viewpoint: Challenging claims of a global bee health crisis
[Editor’s Note: Howard Minigh is the President & CEO of CropLife International, a trade association of agrobusiness companies.] First, there ...
Future of biofuels: Are alternative, sustainable, GMO bacteria-based fuels a pipe dream?
[Joule Unlimited] was designing a system that would produce diesel fuel or gasoline using nothing more than the sun, carbon ...
EPA mulling 2018 partial ban on dicamba spraying because of drift concerns
The U.S. environmental agency is considering banning sprayings of the agricultural herbicide dicamba after a set deadline next year, according ...
French farmers warn glyphosate pesticide ban would halt conservation agriculture
[France’s Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot] reiterated Paris’ opposition to the re-authorisation of Monsanto’s weed killer Roundup. A vote on the ...
Europe approves freeze-dried GMO E. coli bacteria as livestock feed supplement
French Ajinomoto Eurolysine SAS, part of the world leading producer of amino acids by fermentation, has received a positive safety ...
Genetically engineered crops could protect themselves by sterilizing pests
Plants are among many eukaryotes that can 'turn off' one or more of their genes by using a process called ...
GMO moths may be only way to control pesticide-immune cabbage-killing diamondbacks
NPR reports that as of now, the [diamondback moth], which cause billions of dollars in damage to [cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli ...
New York farmer’s sustainability comparison—7 advantages of conventional farming over organic
[Editor’s Note: Tim Durham’s family runs Deer Run Farm on Long Island, NY. He holds a degree in plant medicine ...
Video: Successful Kenya GMO corn field trials show 40% yield increase compared to conventional corn
KTN News Kenya posted a news segment broadcasted from the site of a current GM maize field trial. Supporters of ...
Monsanto shill alert: Does industry funded GMO research bias findings?
Can consumers trust "independent" studies funded by corporations that have found genetically modified foods safe? Anti-GMO activists say 'no.' But ...
Open-source genomic platform could aid plant breeding in developing nations
The Genomic Open-source Breeding Informatics Initiative (GOBII), a global project funded by an $18.5 million grant from the Bill and ...
How biotechnology is making farming more sustainable
[Editor's note: Randy Krotz is the CEO of US Farmers and Ranchers.] There are some things that GMOs allow us ...
What’s a ‘natural’ food? Lawsuits mount as FDA lags on creating label standard
More than a year after the Food and Drug Administration signaled that it would soon nail down exactly what the ...
