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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Biotechnology’s role in combating global food waste
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Viewpoint: Can urban farming and agroecology rescue our planet?
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Taste, nutrition, yield, disease resistance, climate resilience: England becomes first country in Europe to legalize the development and sale of gene-edited plants and food
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Pakistan paying an economic price for its reluctance to embrace crop biotechnology
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Power, culture, and identity: How did milk get caught in the crosshairs of the culture wars
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Teaching AI to farm
[At] the North Carolina Plant Sciences Initiative (N.C. PSI) at NC State, data is considered an essential part of farm equipment. It’s ...
When gene editing offers health and nutritional benefits, consumer acceptance rises significantly
The research, “Consumer Acceptance of Gene-Edited Foods,” found that consumers are significantly more open to gene-edited products when the benefits ...
What would be the global labor impact if the world embraces a more plant-based diet
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Meeting the challenge of reducing the sustainability impact of synthetic fertilizers
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Here’s an argument for breaking the binary framework that now separates organic and conventional
Life was simpler when ‘conventional’ and ‘organic’ covered all approaches to farming. This binary viewpoint has helped the marketing of ...
CRISPR tomatoes that can produce up to 400% more fruit are in development
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Distancing United States, Africa-China agriculture partnership poised to strengthen
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Viewpoint: So-called green energy policy that rejects carbon-free nuclear power leads to rising electricity rates
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Turning last night’s leftovers into fuel for airplanes of the future
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Swine-origin flu remains a deadly threat. Here is a gene-edited way to protect pigs – and us
In a breakthrough for animal health and biosecurity, scientists at the Roslin Institute have successfully developed pigs resistant to classical ...
China escalates its push to replace U.S. and Europe in modernizing African farming
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Weeds have long been the bane of farmers. Will the future be different?
[The] International Herbicide Resistant Weed Database reports that there are 534 unique cases of herbicide-resistant weeds globally, with 273 species. In all, ...
Pakistan weighs embracing GMOs and gene editing to spark an agricultural revolution
Today, more than 240 million Pakistanis rely on a farming model that is outdated, inefficient and increasingly vulnerable to extreme ...
Generative AI is shaping the future of plant gene editing
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AI is already revolutionizing food and farming
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Black goats that endure hot days? Chinese scientists developed them using gene editing
Chinese researchers have produced the world's first gene-edited black goat designed to tolerate high temperatures and humidity, a breakthrough that ...
Ways precision genetics is revolutionizing agriculture
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The social roots of sustainable eating
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Why scare stories about crop chemicals outlive the science
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Our global food system is increasingly under strain. What needs to be done?
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How AI can improve food safety and nutrition
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