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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Kenyan lower court bans importation of genetically modified (GM) foods
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‘Digital-twin technology’ could revolutionize agriculture. Here’s what happened when it was adopted on one Texas farm
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Agriculture and technology inflection point: Are our creaky and faltering century old food systems poised for revival?
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A new generation of sustainable crops that redeploy soil microbes to advance sustainable farming is on the horizon
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Here’s how to transform regenerative agriculture from an ideology into data and outcome-based agriculture that delivers on its promise
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Viewpoint: Activists claiming that the global food system under produces and undermines global food security are wrong, and here’s why
Our food system is not broken! Faced with claims that we should shift our agricultural systems to embrace more agroecological ...
It’s axiomatic among environmentalists that plastic packaging is a sustainability disaster. Hard science and life-cycle analysis say that’s not true
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Regulatory roadblocks set up decades ago hindering the adoption of sustainability-enhancing gene edited crops
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Carbon labeling for food? App helps shoppers choose climate-friendly options in the grocery store
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What’s ‘sustainable abundance’ and how can we deploy technological innovation to achieve it?
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Can trees help solve AI’s massive power needs?
Power producer Drax is scouting locations in the American pine belt to build electricity generators fueled by burning wood chips ...
Turning the cotton industry sustainable: Using sweat potoato waste
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Viewpoint: Trump is pushing ‘America FIrst’ across policy sectors including food and farming. Why that’s not a great idea
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How climate change is altering the look, taste and nutrition content of fruits and vegetables
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Edging toward Agriculture 3.0: Genetics, irrigation and fertilization are improving—Is that enough for the leap forward necessary to feed the world?
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Viewpoint: Biotechnology rejectionists and many regenerative farming advocates maintain that the Green Revolution caused more harm than good. Here are the facts.
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Genetics, irrigation and fertilization: What needs to evolve to increase global food production without destroying our planet
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GLP podcast: Africa needs ‘regenerative’ farming, activists say; Time to ban menthol cigarettes? Trump wrong to leave World Health Organization?
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How CRISPR could revolutionize banana farming and spur sustainable agriculture in Africa
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Viewpoint: Le Monde’s activist ‘journalist’ Stéphane Foucart twists science to ‘prove’ organic food is healthier than conventional
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Viewpoint: GMOs are scapegoated by activists and blamed for encouraging the world to skirt global food and agriculural challenges
The debate around GMOs entails far more than scientific facts: GMOs have become a proxy for many socio-economic issues such as ...
Enriching soil: In agriculture, ‘there are no solutions, only trade-offs’
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Viewpoint: What is sustainability? What are pesticides? The way media and politicians define ideologically diffuse words shape policy – often for the worse
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