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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Local food to eclipse organic, as consumers begin to doubt definition
New consumers continue to enter the organic category for the first time, but the health halo cast by the US ...
Poll: 40% of Americans concerned about GMO in foods; majority favors labeling
A majority of Americans support labeling of genetically modified foods, whether they care about eating them or not. But fewer ...
Conflicting views on GMOs: How do we know what to believe?
How do we know who or what to believe, seeing that GMO advocates and opponents make very contrasting claims and ...
Reflections on why Australian organic farmer’s GMO contamination court case flopped
As Schopenhauer once said, "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it ...
Cornucopia Institute: Organic farms industrializing–As sustainability benefits of GMO crops rise
According to key organic supporters, organic farming is no longer the idyllic image that the multi-billion dollar industry promotes. And ...
UK advisor holds up GMO crops as more environmentally friendly than organic
Organic farming could be worse for the climate than conventional farming methods, one of the government’s scientific advisers has said, ...
Anti anti-GMO organic farmer’s 2015 plea: ‘Let’s end the war over food’
I can't really tell if it was the "packed with pesticides" or the "bashing mom bashes good" phrase that finally ...
New vegan cheese uses human DNA to create protein
San Francisco-based iGem group said it found a way to make cheese proteins using genetic sequences found in mammals. The ...
Can new meatless burgers wean us off unsustainable beef?
I dumped meat a few weeks ago, and it was not an easy breakup. Some of my most treasured moments ...
How to spot a science ideologue
Critics of consensus science--those who challenge the certainty of evolution, the reality of human caused global warming, or the safety ...
Avoiding “foreign genes” trap: Tale of two potatoes highlights new era of GE crops
J.R. Simplot’s recently approved Innate potato could be the first in a new generation of GMO crops bred using new ...
Will my child be born autistic if I eat GMOs? A scientist’s view
The Internet is aflame with claims linking autism to GMOs and the herbicide glyphosate, frightening many parents. Contributing columnist and ...
Mother’s science-based view: Organics and Whole Foods are ‘scam of the decade’
"USDA Certified Organic." These words may conjure notions of wholesomeness, healthiness, freshness and responsible consumer habits. So why is this ...
Scotts’ GMO turfgrass approved as USDA concludes no risk review necessary for ‘gene gun’ modifications
A new GMO variety of tall fescue turfgrass that's resistant to glyphosate herbicides has been cleared for cultivation by USDAÂ without ...
Anti-corporatism envelops local food movement
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Crop biotechnology and the challenges of feeding a world of ten billion
Note: This study by Drew Kershen and Nina Fedoroff is available for free download at:Â http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2542310 The latest United Nations population ...
Are we facing a ‘world without wild bees’?
The bee crisis story keeps morphing. At first, we faced global beemageddon with commercial honeybees at risk. With evidence dimming ...
Biotech can ‘rewild’ crops for resilience
Scientists should "re-wild" food crops by inserting lost genetic properties of ancient, edible plants in order to boost agricultural output ...
Biotech complements conventional and organic ag in promoting biodiversity
Advocates of biotech crops and those who favor traditional farming practices such as crop diversity often seem worlds apart, but ...
Gary Hirshberg, founder of Stonyfield’s and Just Label It, on why GMO labeling is not anti-science
Stonyfield Farm’s co-founder and chairman Gary Hirshberg has shifted his attention from building one of the country’s most influential organic ...
Bee experts shred ‘Harvard’ neonics-Colony Collapse Disorder study, upbraid journalists for ‘activist science’
North America's most prominent bee experts challenge a well-publicized 'Harvard study' that blamed neonicotinoids for bee deaths and Colony Collapse ...
GMOs and Global Food Security
The high costs and uncertainty about the regulation of GMOs have slowed the rate of innovation of new traits and ...
Behind the Label: ‘Non-GMO verified’
Many food companies are seeking certification that their products don’t have any genetically modified ingredients, and not just the brands ...
Will synbio foods win over consumers?
Only two out of 10 Americans are willing to give lab meat – animal tissue grown without a living host ...
Nigeria’s agri-biotech development trails South Africa, others
Nigeria is lagging behind in the agricultural biotechnology revolution as other African nations leap forward in its adoption, resulting in ...
Precision mutagenesis: Are new genome crop editing technologies more ‘natural’?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Over the past 10,000 ...
