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Changing livestock diets: Here’s how crickets will help address agricultural sustainability challenges

Jason McBride | 
During the late summer and early fall, you can hear the commotion in a customized, food-grade shipping container on the ...
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Analysis: Climate activists issue scare-warnings of impending starvation, but they ignore technology’s future role in scaling productivity

Alex Smith, Emma Kovak, Patrick Brown | 
In 1968, the American scientists Paul and Anne Ehrlich published The Population Bomb. In it, The Ehrlichs foresaw widespread death and ...
Viewpoint: ‘Villainous’ methane-burping cows may be part of an integrated solution to climate change

Viewpoint: ‘Villainous’ methane-burping cows may be part of an integrated solution to climate change

Patsy Hunter | 
Beef and dairy cattle have been demonised by many as one of the main causes of increased green house gas ...
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Grow in the dark vertical farming? Here’s how gene-editing could allow crops to grow without light

Rebekka Boekhout | 
Startup Square Roots announces a new program to prove that light can removed from a commercial vertical farming system and ...
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Viewpoint: Evolutionary trap — ‘Forces that encouraged our ancestors to compete for resources fueled early human success but now threaten to end it’

Kristen French | 
Evolution has led us into a dark corner, as the scale and impact of human groups has kept growing, and ...
Post-apocalyptic farming? How seaweed could help us avert starvation during a nuclear winter

Post-apocalyptic farming? How seaweed could help us avert starvation during a nuclear winter

Ben Turner | 
A nuclear war would plunge our planet into a deep nuclear winter. In the worst-case scenario, a nuclear exchange... could ...
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Beverages, meats, fruits and vegetables: CRISPR poised to offer more sustainable alternatives

Cillian McGorman | 
Although vegetarian and vegan diets have risen in popularity over the years, humankind’s appetite for meat is still insatiable. By ...
Hybrid seafood? Shrimp added to expanding roster of 3D printed, cultivated seafood products

Hybrid seafood? Shrimp added to expanding roster of 3D printed, cultivated seafood products

Anay Mridul | 
Israeli startup Steakholder Foods has added a 3D-printed shrimp prototype to an expanding roster of alternative seafood products. The company ...
In face of diminishing freshwater resources, new gene-edited tomato variety can withstand droughts without compromising yields

In face of diminishing freshwater resources, new gene-edited tomato variety can withstand droughts without compromising yields

A new discovery by Tel Aviv University has succeeded in cultivating and characterizing tomato varieties with higher water use efficiency ...
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Gene-edited fungus-resistant rice variety slated for field trials, first genetically-engineered crop trial in Italy nearly 20 years

Anna Meldolesi | 
For the first time in almost 20 years, a new entry appeared in the public database that lists proposals to test ...
Lab-cultured eel alternative to an over-fished delicacy? Israel-Japan partnership looks to 2025 launch

Lab-cultured eel alternative to an over-fished delicacy? Israel-Japan partnership looks to 2025 launch

Anay Mridul | 
Forsea Foods, the only known company working on cell-based eel, has created the first prototype of its cultivated eel. The ...
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Tomatoes ready for harvest in 40 days? Gene edited prototypes could transform one of the world’s most popular fruits

Jeremiah Budin | 
Scientists have just genetically modified cherry tomatoes to make them easier to grow, and the future applications could include making them more ...
Urban farming impact: Growing food in cities has six times the carbon footprint of conventional agriculture

Urban farming impact: Growing food in cities has six times the carbon footprint of conventional agriculture

Jim Erickson | 
A new University of Michigan-led international study finds that fruits and vegetables grown in urban farms and gardens have a ...
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Better tasting, climate-proof coffee: Largest genetic map of Arabica coffee helps researchers grow optimized beans of the future

Helen Briggs | 
Researchers in Italy pieced together the most complete genetic map yet of Arabica coffee, the world's most popular drink ...
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USDA: Why cell-based meat is critical to address climate change

Deniz Ataman | 
In a historic move, USDA-NIFA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative's Sustainable Agricultural Systems (SAS) program invested in cultivated meat research ...
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Here’s how we can genetically modify soil microbiomes to reduce use of synthetic fertilizers and improve yields

Henry Miller, Kathleen Hefferon | 
There has been a great deal of buzz in recent years about the importance of the human microbiome; much of it ...
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Viewpoint: As concerns about plastic pollution in the ocean mount, there is a yet untapped solution — genetically-engineered bacteria that “eat” plastic. Will activists and the government block it?

Henry Miller, Kathleen Hefferon | 
Spain’s northern coast has been fighting a months-long assault from a ‘white tide’ of plastic pellets dumped by a Dutch-registered ...
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Viewpoint: With only 4% of New York farmland organic, why is the state letting this narrow special interest group dictate crop protection policy for all farmers?

Bill Wirtz | 
The 1980s farm crisis wasn’t only a fiscal and economic burden on the states and the farm workers, it also ...
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Clothes made of banana peels: How fruit waste can be turned into a sustainable cotton alternative

Every year, the world produces about 10 million metric tonnes of bananas a year. ​​35% of the banana’s weight are ...
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Next breakthrough CRISPR crop? Turning wild rice species into a domesticated crop

Michael Marshall | 
[Jiayang] Li, a plant geneticist at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology in Beijing, is working on a wild ...
Here’s how CRISPR is evolving into a tool to protect small African farmers

Here’s how CRISPR is evolving into a tool to protect small African farmers

Imma Perfetto | 
A research team has used genome editing to produce a rice variety resistant to yellow mottle virus, which is responsible for high ...
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Viewpoint: ‘Drought-sensitive crops keep Kenya on the precipice of famine’ — Why anti-GMO court challenges stall biotech solutions to Kenya’s food security

Ayoki Onyango | 
Dr Chris Ojiewo of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) says Kenya is on the path of a ...
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Ugly, browning bananas could become a fruit of the past as gene-editing tweak reduces spoilage

Bananas turning brown is a natural process that occurs over time as the fruit overripens and produces too much ethylene ...
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Methane gas from cow burps and other sources accelerates global warming. Here’s a genetic tweaking technique that could transform it into organic fertilizer

Molly McCrea, Sara Donchey | 
A Bay Area biotech firm is working on a clever strategy to capture a worrisome greenhouse gas, and in the ...
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Nearly half the Earth’s land mass is devoted to growing crops, with no large arable areas still uncultivated. With demand for food expected to skyrocket by 2050, what are our options?

Whitney Haigwood | 
By 2050, the global population is projected to total 9.7 billion people. That’s nearly 2 billion more folks on the ...
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Growing food without dirt? Electric ‘e-soil’ reduces fertilizer usage, boosts barley crop growth by 50%

Anders Törneholm | 
Growing crops without soil may sound like a contradiction, but for the research team "Eplants" (Electronic Plants) at Linköping University, ...
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Viewpoint: Organic farming and sustainable agriculture are often in conflict. Here’s why

Hank Campbell | 
hen it comes to denying science, California leads America, and sometimes the world. In early 2020, for example, when the ...
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