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: We need a coordinated global effort to counteract climate change’s impact on food production
Last May, the Japanese Minister of Agriculture resigned after commenting that he never bought rice because his supporters gave it ...
Viewpoint: The Washington Post’s ignorant article suggesting corn country deaths are driven by the herbicide glyphosate
Several weeks ago, the Washington Post ran an article titled “The mysterious rise of cancer among adults in the Corn Belt.” It ...
Will the regenerative agriculture movement be hijacked away from farmers by ‘big corporations and hungry start-ups’?
In farming today, it sometimes feels as though whatever the problem, whether it’s soil health, yields, carbon or profitability, the ...
As the U.S. reverses its support for climate change solutions, China’s dominance as the renewable energy superpower spreads to the developing world
As the United States torpedoes climate action and Europe struggles to realize its green ambitions, a surprising shift is taking ...
It would be incredible if we could breed plants that pests couldn’t gorge on. CRISPR is making it a reality
Insects that feed on starch can find veritable feasts in corn, pea, and bean crops or warehouses. It is no ...
Sustainable farming: How can we engineer crops to adapt to drought and other effects of a warming climate?
As Earth's climate warms and changes, sustainable agricultural practices are critical for feeding a rapidly growing population. A roadmap for how new ...
Biotechnology’s role in combating global food waste
A stark and heart-wrenching paradox haunts our modern world: while nearly one-tenth of humanity goes to bed hungry, a tidal ...
Viewpoint: Can urban farming and agroecology rescue our planet?
By 2050, more than two-thirds of us will live in cities. Could urban farming feed 10 billion? Urban agriculture (UA) covers everything ...
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
Niab has welcomed the entry into force today (13 November) of the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023 for plants ...
Pakistan paying an economic price for its reluctance to embrace crop biotechnology
The iconic green fields of the Punjab, once the heartland of Pakistan’s cotton economy, face a silent crisis. While official ...
Power, culture, and identity: How did milk get caught in the crosshairs of the culture wars
Milk is one of the most familiar things in the world – comforting, wholesome, ordinary. But beneath this common perception ...
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
A global shift towards healthier, more sustainable eating patterns could reshape agricultural employment across the world, according to new research ...
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 ...
Meeting the challenge of reducing the sustainability impact of synthetic fertilizers
Engineering soil microbes to fix atmospheric nitrogen and reduce the use of synthetic fertilizers in cereal crops is a hot space ...
CRISPR tomatoes that can produce up to 400% more fruit are in development
In what could be a boon for local tomato production around the world, trait development company Phytoform just unveiled a ...
Distancing United States, Africa-China agriculture partnership poised to strengthen
At the 2025 General Assembly of the China-Africa Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Alliance (CAASTIA), held ... in Addis Ababa, ...
Viewpoint: So-called green energy policy that rejects carbon-free nuclear power leads to rising electricity rates
Electricity prices are rising, and Democrats are making it a campaign issue. They blame the price hike on President Trump ...
Turning last night’s leftovers into fuel for airplanes of the future
One person’s trash is another person’s… jet fuel? Strange as it might sound, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign ...
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
The 2025 General Assembly of the China-Africa Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Alliance (CAASTIA) kicked off ... in Addis Ababa, ...
Generative AI is shaping the future of plant gene editing
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the fight against viral infections in crops through precision CRISPR genome editing, strengthening global food ...
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 ...
AI is already revolutionizing food and farming
Through satellite imagery, AI can highlight where irrigation systems are drying up, spot greenhouses that weren't there a decade ago, or flag fields ...
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 ...
