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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Viewpoint: India needs to refine its view of the benefits and limits of crop biotechnology
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How to future-proof global food security to meet 2050 demands
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CRISPR is coming: Europe takes a giant step forward escaping three decades of crop biotechnology denialism
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Are climate activists targeting dogs and their owners?
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Beautiful and delicious mutants on your plate: The misunderstood world of crop improvement
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Viewpoint: Who’s Who of litigation-financed junk scientists publish screed in European pay-for-play journal designed to target safe chemicals and their manufacturers for billion-dollar tort actions
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Viewpoint: Small-scale organic farming’s ‘costly indulgence’—Unlike genetically engineered crops, sustainability myths cannot reduce chemical use and increase yields on less land
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Global food security in a fast changing climate
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Viewpoint: South Korea’s outdated crop gene editing regulations stifles agricultural production
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From creating healthy menus to eliminating food waste, AI is transforming the link between food and health
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Viewpoint: New Zealand rebuffs science-rejectionist attack on the safe use of glyphosate weedkiller
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Viewpoint: The U.S. Congress needs to dramatically and quickly overhaul its regulation of agricultural biotechnology
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Viewpoint: Jane Goodall was duped by anti-crop biotechnology conspiracy junk science
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Viewpoint: We need a coordinated global effort to counteract climate change’s impact on food production
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Viewpoint: The Washington Post’s ignorant article suggesting corn country deaths are driven by the herbicide glyphosate
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Sustainable farming: How can we engineer crops to adapt to drought and other effects of a warming climate?
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