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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Filipino farmer: Growing GMO crops ‘changed my life completely’
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Over 90 percent of US corn, cotton and soybean produced from GMO crops, latest USDA data show
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After planting illegal GMO herbicide-tolerant cotton, Indian farmers poised to grow biotech eggplant, soybean and corn
The member farmers belonging to the Shetkari Sanghatana in Maharashtra, who have already broken the law by planting genetically modified ...
KFC developing world’s first bioprinted chicken nuggets for planned rollout in Russia in fall 2020
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Video: Burger King’s lemon-grass fed eco-Whopper not backed by evidence, animal scientist says
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Consumers are as open to seafood labeled ‘cell based’ as they are to ‘wild caught’ and ‘farm raised’
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Growing fish in space: Lab-grown tuna could feed astronauts of the future
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Why grow GMOs? Over 23 years, biotech crops boosted farm income $225 billion, cut pesticide use and slashed carbon emissions
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Pesticide fears spark winegrower interest in CRISPR-edited, disease-resistant grapes
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African women are leading biotechnology advance across the continent
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Viewpoint: How biotech crops, lab-grown meat and other food innovations could jump start post-COVID economic recovery
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CRISPR could cut development time for high-yielding seeds by 5-10 years
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Biotechnology gives plant breeders a leg up in ‘evolutionary arms race’ against crop diseases
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‘Eat them, poison them, drive them to cannibalism’: Kenyan scientists explore creative solutions to East Africa locust swarms
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Viewpoint: Fish farming has a sustainability problem and genetic engineering might be the solution
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Uganda proposes ‘stop-gap’ rules to block GMO crops that could be brought illegally across Kenyan border
The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), plans to draft regulations that will guide the environmental release of Genetically Modified Organisms ...
USDA proposes measures to crack down on fraud in organic farming
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Viewpoint: Activist opposition to GMOs fueled by an ‘extremist’ vision of nature
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Farming a ‘climate villain’? IPCC may have inflated greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claims that agriculture is one of the main sources of greenhouse gases, ...
Ghanaian chief calls for commercialization of GMOs
A Ghanaian chief, Nana Adjie Panin II, has called for the country’s commercialization of genetically modified (GM) seeds. Genetically modified ...
Viewpoint: Organic food represents a ‘reactionary’ ideology that doesn’t support health or sustainable farming—and should not be subsidized
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Natural pesticide claimed as replacement for antibiotics as treatment for citrus greening disease decimating US citrus industry
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