Sustainability/Climate Change
Plant pathologist Steve Savage discusses issues with, myths about organic food
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In this episode of ...
Crop breeding must speed up to keep up with climate change
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Crop yields will fall ...
Robert Saik discusses upcoming documentary project ‘Know GMO’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Robert Saik is an agriculture ...
Can we finally make gasoline out of corncobs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . .Take ...
Herbicide glyphosate facing ban in Europe? Here’s a backgrounder
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It's hard to find ...
Biotech opponents claim Monsanto ‘controls’ the world food supply? What are the facts?
Is there truth to a common anti-GMO narrative that large multi-national companies seek to “control the food supply” through patents ...
Ex-Friends of the Earth activist: GMO debate needs to remove ‘absolute opinions’ against biotech
A former activist for an anti-GMO group likens movement to debate on nuclear energy. Says conversations shouldn't start with facts, ...
GMO rice strain yields more, requires less fertilizer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A strain of genetically ...
Australian GMO report shows reduced pesticide use, carbon emissions, increased farmer incomes
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Organic farming and genetic ...
Claims organic food better for health, animals, planet ‘marketing hype’
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Clif Bar’s anti-GMO video promotes myths, misinformation, insults farmers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In an interview for ...
Delicious mutant foods: Mutagenesis and the genetic modification controversy
The best Italian pasta, Ruby Red grapefruits and 3,000 other crop varieties consumed by millions every day were created by ...
‘Refuge-in-a-bag’ corn seed mixes may be accelerating Bt resistance in insects
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Farmers love "refuge-in-a-bag" (RIB) ...
Privatization, consolidation of agricultural technology, not GMOs, threaten food security
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . .There ...
Hawaii honey bee die-off points to likely culprits—Not pesticides, but varroa and viruses
Hawaii study may hold the key to the mystery of why honey bees are struggling ...
Do you really understand modern farming? Scientist examines 10 truths of GMOs and organics
As the debate over GMOs has gone viral, city-dwellers often position themselves as experts on farming. But there's often a ...
Protein discovered in rice improves nitrogen efficiency, increases yields up to 54 percent
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African farmers confront climate change with genetically improved seeds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Less than 30 percent ...
Are there environmental and economic benefits to GMO crops? Study claims $150+ billion since ’96
An UK-based consultancy agency reviewed data on GM crops and found economic benefits for farmers, as well as a reduction ...
GMO-free dairy products: ‘Differentiation based on fear, ignorance’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [T]he ...
How Monsanto, one of the world’s most vilified companies, could be crucial in feeding it
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . Is it ...
Startups, Big Ag betting soil microbes will bring next agricultural revolution
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. David Perry believes the ...
Food and farming trade disruption looms as EU again postpones glyphosate renewal
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After failing twice to ...
EPA’s atrazine risk assessment draws criticism from agriculture groups, Syngenta
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An EPA draft document assessing ...
Farm groups say EPA’s atrazine report could lead to ‘effective ban’ of popular herbicide
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One of the most ...
Talking Biotech: Israel’s Danny Chamovitz on plants adapting to environment, biotech in Israel
Israel's Danny Chamovitz on plants adapting to environment, biotech in Israel; After the Gold Rush comic with a compelling sci-fi ...
Biotechnology could save trees decimated by invasive insects, disease
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . .[A]ccording to ...