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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Nicaraguan enviro activists say GMOs would not alleviate drought crisis
A severe four-month drought during this year's “wet” season in Nicaragua hit agricultural production in two-thirds of the country’s 153 municipalities ...
Raw organic milk implicated in death of Australian child
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21 European scientists call for public support of GMOs
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Golden rice will not solve malnutrition or biodiversity loss
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Are African farmers in danger of becoming slaves to patented seeds?
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Are organic farms more drought resistant?
The supposed productivity gaps between organic and conventional farming may be a lot smaller than thought, according to a new analysis ...
Bee-gate: European IUCN task force mired in corruption scandal over neonics ban plot
The European-based IUCN Taskforce on Systemic Pesticides consists of activist scientists that exploit the weaknesses in the peer review process, ...
Study claims agroecology closes organic yield deficit with conventional farming
The more scientists actually study agroecology, the better it looks. The largest meta-analysis to date comparing yields of organic and ...
Proponents of organic diet craze reject GMOs, swear by health benefits
Over the past several years, the organic food craze has definitely grown. But some people feel that genetically modified foods ...
We can feed the world without chopping down more forests
Maybe this is obvious, but expanding our agricultural footprint to feed the growing population — cutting down forests, plowing prairies ...
Evolution of Food Babe: From misguided consumer advocate to crude bully
It's been a rough week for the Food Babe. After her takedown by NPR, Vani Hari has begun lashing out ...
Ontario farmers claim they are ‘bullied’ by proposed neonics ban
In November, the Ontario premier’s office and the ministry of the environment and climate change revealed its plan to restrict the ...
Can biotech help threatened bluefin tuna?
Of all the overfished fish in the seas, luscious, fatty bluefin tuna are among the most threatened. Marine scientist Goro ...
How would Norman Borlaug, father of Green Revolution, tackle climate change?
Norman Borlaug was many things to many people. To his colleagues, he was a meticulous and rigorous agronomist, obsessed with ...
Fish-farmed genetically modified salmon could help alleviate overexploited wild fisheries
Seafood remains one of the last types of foods that we harvest from the wild at a commercial level, and ...
Dung factor: Why organic farming yields can never match conventional farming
In the last year or so the claim that organic farming methods can feed the world has come up several ...
Global Risks of Rejecting Agricultural Biotechnology
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Can GMO technology sustainably rescue threatened Florida oranges, tomatoes and papayas?
Biotech breeding innovations are desperately needed in Florida, where the humid climate creates ideal conditions for disease-causing bacteria and fungi ...
GMO opponent Vani Hari, Food Babe, lashes out at critics
We are close to winning. Over the last three years, the coalition we have built, the Food Babe Army, has had ...
Two organic dairies yank support from lawsuit against GMO labeling
New Hampshire-based Stonyfield Farm and California’s Clover Stornetta Farms, two organic dairy producers, have withdrawn from a trade group seeking to ...
Silence from Bill Nye to Kevin Folta GMO debate challenge
Some of you might recall the open letter from Kevin Folta, a University of Florida plant scientist, inviting ["The Science Guy," Bill ...
Got synbio milk? Bioengineers create lactose-free lab-grown milk
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EPA accomplice in environmentalists’ war on neonics?
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Kauai authorizes $100,000 GMO pesticide health study
The state Department of Agriculture and Kauai County are paying a consultant $100,000 to examine the possible health and environmental ...
Neonics ban tied to corrupted bee research by scientists at EU’s ethically-challenged IUCN?
Under the auspices of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, activist scientists map out a 4-year strategy to get ...
Reflections on the Great Biotech Debate: Dissecting the arguments
Intelligence Squared, an organization that organizes public debates across the globe, holds them in traditional Oxford debating style which pits one team ...
