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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Zero tolerance policies on GMO “contamination” hurt organic and conventional farmers alike
Neighboring organic farmers and GMO farmers struggle to coexist amid fears of gene flow through cross pollination. Yet agricultural scientists ...
Truth about small farmers: They can’t make a living
I wondered how many small farmers, like myself, actually made a living. I looked into national statistics. Only the largest ...
So can we really feed the world? Yes — and here’s how
Over the past six months I’ve been trying to figure out how we can feed ourselves sustainably and equitably without ...
Food sovereignty group sues Ghanian government over GM crop trials
Civil Society Group, Food Sovereignty Ghana has sued Government at the Human Rights Court, seeking an interim injunction on the ...
Cloned white Angus could double beef production in 10 years
Dr. James West, associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University and chief science officer of CAG, has developed a way ...
No climate benefit to biofuel crops
Nearly all of the studies that have been used to promote the deployment of biofuels over the past two decades ...
Mimicking Climategate, anti-GMO activists fund legal attack on biotech academics
US Right to Know, funded mostly by organic activists, is using the Freedom of Information Act to target scientists it ...
Rethinking “pro-GMO” and “anti-GMO” labels
Journalists and commentators often use the terms "anti-GMO" and "pro-GMO" as shorthand to guide the reader through ideological thickets. But ...
The Original Frankenfoods: Origins of Our Fear of Genetic Engineering
The anti-GMO community has gotten a lot of propaganda mileage out of demonizing GM crops as Frankenstein's creation. GLP guest ...
What turned the organic movement against GMOs?
The idea behind the organic movement has some virtues: using fewer chemicals that might be more dangerous, reducing logistics and ...
Will Tanzania follow Burkina Faso in embracing GM crops to fight ravaging diseases?
There is a groundswell of popular support for crop biotechnology among African farmers, with Uganda and Burkina Faso the most ...
Anti-GMO sociologists mute attacks on biotech, urge greater sensitivity to cultural impacts
At the National Research Council's public webinar on GM crops, three sociologists, known for their concerns about the cultural impact ...
Genetically engineered ‘on-off switch’ could activate drought tolerance in plants
An innovative 'on-off' switch added to a plant protein may one day allow farmers to prep crops for drought by ...
Alison Van Eenennaam: Genetically engineered animals critical for food production
Genetically engineered food animals could provide a sustainable means to feed a fast-growing world population, yet regulatory hurdles keep such ...
Korean scientists develop GM sweet potatoes that grow in desert
A research team led by Dr. Kwak Sang-soo at the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology is receiving a ...
Will next generation of herbicide-resistant crops cause more problems?
The latest in a new generation of genetically engineered crops is poised to enter widespread use—and critics think they'll cause ...
Can GMOs save the fragile coral reef ecosystem?
The controversial practice of "environmental engineering" should be adopted in the battle to save the world's coral reefs from the ...
Modern genetics (not necessarily GMOs) can help spur next Green Revolution
The green revolution transformed global agriculture. Through selective breeding, Norman Borlaug, an American biologist, created a dwarf variety of wheat ...
Greenpeace, activist groups call on tight regulation of new genetic engineering methods
In a joint open letter to the European Commission, eight farmers', environmental and food safety organisations demand that products derived ...
Money talks: Some farmers go non-GMO because of price premiums, not rejection of biotech
A small but growing number of Midwestern farmers in the United States are moving away from biotech seeds, drawn by the premium price non-GMO crops ...
How activists, sloppy reporters turned genetic firewall story into hysteria-gram on GMO dangers
In the hands of activists and sloppy reporters, breakthrough research on setting genetic 'kill switches' to prevent synthetic genes from ...
Food Babe gets science lesson from University of Florida’s Kevin Folta
In January, a group of food science graduate students wrote an open letter to Vani Hari, aka Food Babe, on ...
Harvard’s George Church: ‘Gene leakage research will blunt anti-GMO activist scares’
Since the 1970s we've been ushering in the next era of breeding by physically lifting individual genes from one species ...
Call for action: It’s time to March Against the March Against Monsanto
March Against Monsanto has evolved into a cultural event symbolizing the most strident and scientifically questionable side of the anti-technology ...
Former Greenpeace UK bucks NGOs opposition to GM crops, endorses some GMOs
One month after taking office, the Juncker Commission reached an agreement with the European Council and the European Parliament on ...
Vermont ruling on GM labeling case expected this spring; final court decision, end of year
Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell said Wednesday that he expects a judge to rule on dueling motions in the GMO ...
