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Greenwashing or greening agriculture? Food companies developing efforts to prevent carbon in soil from leaking into the atmosphere

Meg Wilcox | 
Jason Johnson, Stonyfield Organic’s farmer relationship manager, fires up the AgriCORE soil sampling tool in a pasture with sweeping views ...
America needs food: Why do presidential debates ignore agricultural policy?

America needs food: Why do presidential debates ignore agricultural policy?

Bill Wirtz | 
Much of the presidential debates involve rehashing points of the last two presidential terms. Gun rights, immigration, and the conduct ...
As grocery store prices rise, consumers open to experimentation opt for animal meat over more expensive plant-based versions

As grocery store prices rise, consumers open to experimentation opt for animal meat over more expensive plant-based versions

Ryan Daily | 
In a survey of more than 1,200 US adults​, Purdue University found that consumers largely preferred beef from cattle over ...
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Viewpoint: Finding optimal crop traits using traditional breeding is like finding ‘a needle in a haystack’. Here’s how precision breeding can help

Daniel Grant | 
Finding the best genetic characteristics of a crop one season at a time through traditional plant breeding was like finding, ...
Is lab-grown meat environmentally harmful?

Is lab-grown meat environmentally harmful?

Jessica Scott-Reid | 
U.C. Davis researchers concluded that producing cell-cultured meat could actually be more burdensome to the environment than its traditionally farmed ...
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How heirloom seeds help preserve genetic diversity

Lauren David | 
Safeguarding heirlooms may be more important now than ever, as the full scope of our current biodiversity emergency continues to come into ...
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Sequencing the watermelon family tree reveals ‘lost’ disease-resistance genes that were bred out generations ago

Ricki Lewis | 
As autumn looms, we’re enjoying the last bites of sweet, juicy watermelon ...
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Quixotic vision: Why advocates’ obsession with agroecology will prolong poverty in Africa and the rest of the developing world

Joshua Muhumuza | 
Like in the rest of the world, the vision for the future of agriculture in the developing world is highly ...
Kenya looks to GMO cotton to jumpstart textile industry

Kenya looks to GMO cotton to jumpstart textile industry

Kenya recently said it will leverage adoption of Bt cotton to revitalise the textile and apparel industry. The government is ...
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How a ‘foreign invasion’ contributed to Hawaii’s devastating wildfires

Lucie Aubourg | 
After a catastrophic wildfire that killed more than 100 people in Hawaii, eyes have turned toward an unexpected culprit: invasive ...
Can we ‘vacuum carbon dioxide from the atmosphere’ to fight global warming?

Can we ‘vacuum carbon dioxide from the atmosphere’ to fight global warming?

Elizabeth Hlavinka | 
In August, the Biden Administration granted $1.2 billion in federal funding to kickstart a project intended to vacuum carbon dioxide up ...
Viewpoint: ‘What would a future without the weed-killer glyphosate look like?’

Viewpoint: ‘What would a future without the weed-killer glyphosate look like?’

Gregg Doud | 
Glyphosate helped end the reign of the weed once it was approved in 1974. Then, when combined with genetic modification ...
Grasshoppers under siege: Here’s how climate change depletes insect populations and threatens the global food supply

Grasshoppers under siege: Here’s how climate change depletes insect populations and threatens the global food supply

Amber Dance | 
It’s tough out there for a hungry grasshopper on the Kansas prairie. Oh, there’s plenty of grass to eat, but ...
Viewpoint: Claiming a 'slippery slope', Non-GMO Project opposes synthetic palm oil, which would protect biodiversity, limit climate change and reduce pollution

Viewpoint: Claiming a ‘slippery slope’, Non-GMO Project opposes synthetic palm oil, which would protect biodiversity, limit climate change and reduce pollution

Palm oil is ubiquitous, in part because it has a higher yield and lower cost of production than any other vegetable ...
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Cost of GMO bans: Global crop assessment finds GMO restrictions limit food production to ⅓ of potential, with poorer countries hit hardest

Asger Wingender, Casper Hansen | 
How costly are GM bans? To find out, we calculate by how much yields would have been higher in 2019 ...
Canadian farmers abandon organic certification because approved ‘natural’ chemicals can’t control devastating grasshoppers

Canadian farmers abandon organic certification because approved ‘natural’ chemicals can’t control devastating grasshoppers

Karen Briere | 
Organic growers may have decisions to make after grasshoppers chomped their way through prairie fields this summer ...
Genetically-modified crops poised to revolutionize sustainable farming in Nigeria

Genetically-modified crops poised to revolutionize sustainable farming in Nigeria

Collins Nnabuife | 
One of Nigeria’s standout accomplishments is the commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) crops, a significant milestone that has garnered attention ...
How gene editing can keep melons fresher for longer

How gene editing can keep melons fresher for longer

Hiroshi Ezura | 
The gaseous plant hormone ethylene has been long known to promote fruit ripening and play a certain role in shelf-life ...
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Lab-grown meat: This may be the only way to sustainably boost global meat production

Claire Turrell | 
Some may baulk at the idea of meat originating in a lab, but the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
Could beanless brews redefine the coffee industry and sharply reduce its carbon footprint?

Could beanless brews redefine the coffee industry and sharply reduce its carbon footprint?

Anay Mridul | 
The link between coffee and climate change is well-documented. The industry has been hit with low harvests, uneven yields and uncertainty ...
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Green transition: How agriculture can drive climate change solutions

Val Giddings | 
It is widely recognized that we must transition our energy economies to a greener, more sustainable state. This will only happen ...
Viewpoint: Collapse of Sri Lankan organic-only farming experiment remains warning about putting ideology ahead of science and common sense

Viewpoint: Collapse of Sri Lankan organic-only farming experiment remains warning about putting ideology ahead of science and common sense

Luigi Mariani | 
Having put an end to a bloody guerrilla war that had been dragging on for three decades, Sri Lanka had ...
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By 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean. Here’s a ‘natural’ solution — genetically-modified plastic-eating microbes

Colleen Walsh | 
“Recycling is basically a myth. Nothing really gets recycled—it ends up in the landfills and oceans and leads to toxic ...
Reconstructing the ‘perfect’ watermelon: Returning ‘lost genes’ from wild relatives to modern fruit

Reconstructing the ‘perfect’ watermelon: Returning ‘lost genes’ from wild relatives to modern fruit

Marion Kirkpatrick | 
Could farmers soon be growing and harvesting the perfect watermelon? It is no secret — delivering juicy, delicious “summer smiles” is no ...
Pesticides and Food: It’s not a black or white issue — Part 5: Soil health ― When synthetic pesticides are more sustainable than 'natural' organics

Pesticides and Food: It’s not a black or white issue — Part 5: Soil health ― When synthetic pesticides are more sustainable than ‘natural’ organics

Kayleen Schreiber, Marc Brazeau | 
Most consumers believe organic farming avoids pesticides and prioritizes the health of the environment more than conventional farming. However, this ...
Cutting-edge fashion: From bacteria-dyed fabric to algae-based textiles, green fashion is experiencing a technological boom

Cutting-edge fashion: From bacteria-dyed fabric to algae-based textiles, green fashion is experiencing a technological boom

Elizabeth Beattie | 
A crop of scientists and fashion tech pioneers are increasingly looking to nature for clues as to how to develop ...
Climate-smart genetically-engineered seeds may be Nigeria’s only viable way to confront farming disruptions brought on by climate change

Climate-smart genetically-engineered seeds may be Nigeria’s only viable way to confront farming disruptions brought on by climate change

Collins Nnabuife | 
Climate change has been a major menace in agricultural production especially for Nigeria that is fighting hard to produce enough ...
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