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: What are key environmental trade-offs and advantages in transitioning to organic farming?
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Viewpoint: Why commercializing GMOs would help Ghana and the rest of Africa address food shortages
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Viewpoint: Are reports that organic farming led to Sri Lanka’s economic collapse overblown?
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Lab-grown oysters? Here’s why seafood of the future will be cell-based and sustainable
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30 years of scientific progress on gene editing, countless studies involving dialogue with society, thousands of forums and debates for ...
Podcast: Guardian’s glyphosate hysteria debunked; Intensive farming and pandemics; Where did dogs come from?
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Viewpoint: Green groups urge ending biofuel use to address global food shortages
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Powering plants with solar panels instead of photosynthesis might increase crop efficiency. But are companies overhyping potential?
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Viewpoint: Sri Lankan organic farming disaster foreshadows what could unfold if Europe moves ahead with Green Deal Farm to Fork plan
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Viewpoint: Why we must ‘learn to love genetically modified crops’
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European Parliament: Global meat consumption has doubled in two decades, exacerbating climate change. Sustainably growing animal protein with yeast and bacteria could help
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Viewpoint: Reject anti-technology hyperbole — High-yield, intensive farming, agricultural sustainability and nature conversation can co-exist
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Orange and grapefruit growers devastated by citrus diseases have new hope: CRISPR gene editing
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‘Lose-lose situation’: Mexico’s ban on genetically modified corn worsening food security and increasing inflation
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How biotechnology can protect indigenous ‘orphan crops’ from disease and boost economic growth
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Viewpoint: Millions face food insecurity. Following ‘green hysteria’ in rejecting pesticides and fertilizers will make this crisis worse
From 2023, the European Union will allocate 25 per cent of its direct agriculture payment budget to “eco-payments” for carbon ...
Viewpoint: Cost of misinformation — Nigeria spends over 40 million dollars a year importing cowpea. A GMO insect resistant version could save money and lives
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Nigeria is ready to meet strong farmer demand for GMO cowpea seeds
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Viewpoint: What the war in Ukraine tells us about global limitations of organic farming
The nascent food crisis now reveals a hard truth: organic agriculture cannot feed the world and could even worsen future ...
Viewpoint: ‘Microbes and plants can be altered to increase to carbon capture’ — Biophysicist lays out pathway for net-zero emissions
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Nigeria moves to import GM wheat to lower local food prices
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Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ scaremongering — Consumers reject fear-based environmentalist disinformation
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Viewpoint: ‘Optimizing nature’ — How gene editing can help grow crops in unstable climates using less water
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Video: Erratic weather from climate change is biggest threat facing Kenyan crops. Gene-editing technology could help, farmer says
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Viewpoint: ‘Depression and now anarchy’ — How rejecting agricultural technology and vanity of ‘green’, organic farming led to Sri Lanka’s collapse
The anarchic scenes in Sri Lanka are enough to make the blood of any world leader run cold. President Gotabaya ...
Viewpoint: Solved! Busting pro-organic, anti-GMO myths
Over the years, we have experienced a massive increase in the consumption of organic foods, with many people painting conventional ...
Viewpoint: Will Biden and the ‘progressive left’ muster independence to embrace agricultural gene editing and its carbon-capture potential?
Carbon capture has often been touted as an alternative to dealing with climate change that does not involve laying waste ...
