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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GM Golden Rice yield and grain quality comparable to conventional counterparts, field studies show
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Gene editing could help Kenya’s valuable tea crop retain its competitive edge
Genome editing may help protect Kenya’s most important cash crop — tea grown in the country’s prime highlands — from ...
‘Meat: It’s still what’s for dinner.’ Can popular plant-based burgers really displace beef?
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While COVID held our attention in a vice grip, 2020 brought some major crop biotech breakthroughs
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Engineered tomatoes kill whiteflies by ‘silencing’ gene that protects them from pesticides
A pernicious agricultural pest owes some of its success to a gene pilfered from its plant host millions of years ...
Infographic: Here’s where GM crops are grown around the world today
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Gene-edited crops ‘safe for human consumption and the environment,’ Health Canada finds
Health Canada is proposing new rules to deal with plant breeding innovation, including gene-edited crops. To develop the new guidelines, ...
Europe could become an ‘agricultural museum’ unless it embraces crop gene editing, officials warn
Speaking during the AGRI Committee debate, right-wing MEP Mazaly Aguilar raised a concern that, by imposing new restrictions on the ...
Honey without bees? A synthetic version that mimics the ‘real thing’ could be available in 2021
MeliBio, the Berkeley-based startup claiming to make real honey without bees, has closed $850,000 in pre-seed funding as it gears ...
‘My position is not ideological’: Why some agroecology advocates accept GM crops and synthetic pesticides
[Head of advocacy and programs at the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana, Dr. Charles Nyaaba] said that modern technological inventions, ...
Grapevines that spent a year in space may help researchers breed crops better suited for climate change
Researchers in France are studying a dozen bottles of French wine and hundreds of snippets of grapevines that returned to ...
Nigerian farmers welcome new cassava varieties: ‘My joy knows no bounds’
Nigerian farmers are enthusiastic about the government’s approval of five new varieties of NextGen cassava that promise to double yields ...
Food of the future: Will plant-based and lab-grown proteins become household staples?
Plant-based meats are now a fixture at fast-food restaurants around the world, and plant-based milk is a household staple. Alternatives ...
UK sugar beet farmers could be growing gene-edited, disease-resistant crops within 5 years
[British Sugar] is investigating gene-edited beet seed as a long-term solution to [virus yellows] disease, which devastated crops across eastern ...
Anti-GMO activists launch final effort to block AquaBounty’s fast-growing, sustainable GM salmon as US sales loom
As biotech firm AquaBounty prepares to harvest its GE AquAdvantage salmon for sale in the US, activist groups have trotted ...
‘Peak meat’ 2025? As plant-based proteins grow more popular, beef consumption will drop, study predicts
An increasing number of people are eating meat and dairy alternatives as concern grows over health, the environmental impact of ...
Viewpoint: Animal agriculture offers potentially ‘game-changing solutions’ to climate change
Cows are often assigned disproportionate climate change blame, but recent weeks in Washington bring hope that political leaders may begin ...
CRISPR ‘super corn’ with more kernels could reduce land, fertilizer and water use
Thanks to selective breeding over the course of some 9,000 years, humans were able to transform an ancient wild grass ...
Could lab-grown wood halt deforestation around the world?
[P]lant cells that have similar properties on mass to wood can be used to create materials that could be used ...
Viewpoint: Skeptical of pesticides? That’s because you don’t know what life is like without them
Our greatest public health challenge isn’t chemicals -- it's ignorance and fear-mongering about them ...
What is regenerative farming, and is it a solution to climate change?
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Lab-grown tuna could satisfy growing demand for fish without the severe environmental impact
From 1961 to 2015, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, global fish consumption grew from 9kg to 20.2kg ...
‘No shortage of dangers’ and no easy answers for the monarch butterfly
North America’s monarch butterfly population is in trouble. That much has been clear for decades but scientists have found that ...
Viewpoint: USDA, FDA should abandon ‘tangled’ gene-edited animal rules and collaborate to commercialize more products
The science says and continues to say that foods made from genetically modified crops are safe for consumption, they can ...
Biden Administration backs aerial glyphosate spraying to combat Colombia’s cocaine trade, drawing criticism from some drug policy experts
Biden’s administration celebrated Colombia’s decision to restart aerial eradication of coca in its annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report. Colombian ...
Poverty and hunger follow Africa’s fall armyworm invasion
Africa’s fall armyworm invasion has contributed to poverty and hunger among smallholder farmers, a pioneering study shows. Severe levels of ...
Viewpoint: Consumer-focused GM and gene-edited products throw anti-GMO movement’s future into doubt
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