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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Peanut butter saved? Heat-tolerant peanuts may stave off yield-cutting impacts of climate change
[A] group of researchers led by Clemson University Plant and Environmental Sciences assistant professor Sruthi Narayanan is working to develop ...
Saving Africa’s agroecological food baskets from the agroecology movement
As agroecology activism increases within the global food system, many African communities involved in agriculture and food production, as well ...
No access to GM, insect-resistant eggplant costs the Philippines $634 million annually
[Philippine eggplant crops suffer] tremendous damage from the eggplant fruit and shoot borer (EFSB), its major pest. The Bt eggplant ...
Could Ethiopia make or break the future of GM crops in Africa?
I have followed with interest the recent controversy around plantings of transgenic crops in Ethiopia. Until 2015, the country took ...
Higher canola yields without additional farmland: Gene editing could make it happen
What if it were possible to modify the height and shape of canola, so more plants could be grown in ...
Glyphosate-tolerant sugarbeet: Case study of lower CO2 emissions, higher yields with GM crops
Western Sugar Cooperative is a co-op of beet producers who mainly farm in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska. [Chief scientist ...
Sociologists’ critical theory deconstruction of GMO Bt cotton ‘success narrative’ in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso’s 2008 Bt cotton adoption was Africa’s largest genetically modified (GM) crop introduction principally for small farmers, and became ...
‘Vitaminized potatoes’: Guatemala poised to begin distributing GM, pest-resistant spuds with more vitamin C, iron and zinc
[Guatemalan] President Alejandro Giammattei announced that the distribution of seeds and planting of "vitaminized potatoes" will begin, which are being ...
Viewpoint: Farms today are massive—but it’s not because they’re ‘greedy factory farms’
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‘Vocal anti-GM campaigner’: Organic farmers should abandon opposition to gene editing
The organic sector has been vehemently opposed to genetic technologies in the past, but Alex Smith, vocal anti-GM campaigner and ...
Milk without cows: Thanks to fermentation, future dairy products might originate in a lab
The industrial dairy industry is one of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the world. In a study ...
Already blamed for ‘widespread insect declines,’ neonicotinoid insecticides may threaten mammals, too
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GMO ‘scarecrow’: What’s keeping Africa from embracing genetically engineered crops?
The advent of climate change, coupled with new plant pests and diseases, has worsened the plight of Ghanaian farmers, relegating ...
GM crops, edible insects will boost global sustainability, UN chief agriculture scientist says
On the side-lines of the UN’s 2021 Climate Adaptation Summit, TIME speaks with Agnes Kalibata, the Rwandan-born agricultural scientist and ...
Bolivia looks to GM soybeans, cotton and sugar cane to boost flagging agricultural production
The administration of the [Bolivian] president, Luis Arce Catacora, promised to make viable, after a technical study, the use of ...
Kenya anticipates massive increase in crop production as GM, insect-resistant cotton distribution begins
The [Kenyan] Ministry of Agriculture started the distribution of Bt (Bacillus Thuringiensis) cotton seeds to farmers as it embarks on ...
Impossible Foods cuts prices 20% in bid to make plant-based meat ‘mainstream’
Impossible Foods, the California-based producer of plant-based meat that counts Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing as an investor, has announced ...
Kenya approves 6 gene-edited crops as it pursues food security, sustainable farming
[A]t the Kenya Agricultural Livestock Research Organisation (Karlo) and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) biotechnologists are using gene ...
Golden Rice: A tool of modern day ‘neo-colonialism’?
Noted Forbes and Slate contributor, blogger, and speaker Kavin Senapathy recently went against the grain, railing against Golden Rice and ...
Viewpoint: Organic farmers should be allowed to grow GM crops
Consumers are misinformed about the reality of the existing organic system. Current organic practices are no more “natural” than GM ...
CRISPR-edited chickens immune to avian flu could cut disease spread and help save farmers billions of dollars
Recently, the company [EggXYt] branched out into the field of disease prevention, licencing the GEiGS™ Technology Platform from Tropic Biosciences ...
Video: ‘Science over unjustified cautiousness:’ Why UK should abandon Europe’s biotech crop rules
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Viewpoint: GM crops have been a global success, so why do critics focus on the experience of one African country?
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Up to 10,000 Nigerian farmers projected to grow insect-resistant, GM cowpea in 2021
The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) said it would release 10 tons of Pod Borer Resistant (PBR) Cowpea before the ...
Salt-tolerant, GM Eucalyptus tree has no adverse effects on biodiversity, study finds
[A]n RNA chaperone gene derived from common ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), alleviated injury and loss of biomass production by salt ...
With fertile land and water growing scarce, high-yield wheat and barley could help save millions from hunger
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