Newsletter GLP Food & Ag
A house made from mushrooms and a ski jacket from microbes? Synthetic biology is poised to revolutionize what we can do with crops
Imagine if we could redesign nature by making a house out of mushrooms, a ski jacket from fermented microbes, and ...
How anti-GMO advocates hijacked German science, blocking agricultural innovation and threatening the CRISPR revolution: A farmer’s perspective
Susanne Günther, Farmer, Blogger, and Winner of the InnoPlanta Prize for Objective Reporting on Modern Plant Breeding | July 12, ...
Podcast: Here is how misinformation about GMOs and crop biotechnology mutates and spreads
How does misinformation about genetically engineered crops (GMOs) start and how do we correct it? These are questions asked by ...
What did ancient humans eat?
Unearthed from the graves of children, ceramic baby bottles from thousands of years ago would look perfectly at home in ...
Viewpoint: Greenpeace continues campaign to scuttle Philippines’ vitamin A-enriched Golden Rice approval, but government holds firm
COVID-19 has caused untold suffering throughout the world, but particularly in developing countries. So why is Greenpeace continuing a yearslong ...
Precautionaria: Risk-averse Europe is undermining innovation in sustainable farming and battling climate change
Europe has been suffering from a disease outbreak that is debilitating its population, leading to economic malaise and destroying its ...
Viewpoint: ‘It’s time to listen to what the data say’ — Agricultural biotechnology industry issues joint statement challenging Europe’s proposed Farm to Fork Green Deal
Food chain actors all agree with the main principles set out in the Farm to Fork strategy and are fully ...
Viewpoint: How distributing misinformation about farming, food and agricultural biotechnology became a big business
Biotechnology began to be applied to crop agriculture in the early 1980s, with the first commercialized products coming to market ...
The A – Z of anti-GM activists in Africa
The developed world — especially Western Europe and North America — have embraced genetic engineering in the medical field, mainly ...
How the brain drives food addictions
From the earliest days of their evolution, guts and brains have been the best of friends. It’s a mutually beneficial ...
Viewpoint: After years of misreporting, NY Times embraces safety and efficacy of GMOs — but still stumbles on nuance and key facts
Genetically engineered (GE) crops, which have been commercially available for 25 years, have been widely misunderstood and under-appreciated, especially by ...
Can native and conventional crops coexist with GM and gene-edited varieties? The case of Honduras
Over the last several years, it’s been more than evident there is an urgent need to increase food production at ...
Seed Speaks Video: Are GMOs sustainable? Can organic feed the world? One size doesn’t fit all
The debate about GMO safety and sustainability is ongoing, but one fact remains: food security is paramount. Does the absence ...
Viewpoint: Part 2 — Which developing countries are taking the lead in crop biotechnology innovation?
In Part One of this series, we “set the stage” for the economic reasons for acceptance of GM foods in ...
Viewpoint: Cornell prof Anthony Shelton’s personal account of the sustainability and economic success of GMO eggplants in Bangladesh
I had the opportunity to work on a project that helped transform the lives of resource-poor farmers in Bangladesh and ...
‘Prejudiced, anti-science, anti-social stances’: Letter denounces University of Missouri lecture series speech invitation to anti-biotechnology activist-philosopher Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva, an Indian activist philosopher who maintains the Green Revolution was a failure and promotes small-scale farming to address ...
Viewpoint: Part 1 — Opposition stirred by anti-GMO advocacy group propaganda fading in the developing world, as more countries embrace crop biotechnology
Although acreage under GMO crop cultivation has expanded rapidly worldwide since GMOs first began to be grown in the mid ...
Viewpoint: ‘Silent Earth’ cynically peddles scientifically unsupported insect apocalypse hysteria to nakedly promote organic agenda
To most people, food production, home ownership, and energy don't have much in common, but in the hands of 'science ...
Viewpoint: African agricultural biotechnology advancing swifty in labs to address food security threats — but implementation slowed by European opposition
From the beginning, genetically engineered (GE) crops (also known as GMOs) have been controversial. Europe has always been at the ...
Part 2: How scientists beat back anti-biotechnology activists’ ‘insidious campaign’ to block Nigeria’s approval of pest-resistant GMO cowpea
The standard for how to conduct a safely assessment is laid down by the Codex Alimentarius, a food code established ...
Part 1: Addressing food security in Nigeria — Seeds of hope for subsistence farmers as insect resistant GM cowpeas finally come to market
Not a lot has improved for Nigeria’s subsistence farmers over the years. Most can’t afford fertilizer and chemicals; there’s no ...
Japan ushers in CRISPR gene edited food revolution as hypertension-reducing tomato now on sale
In the coming years, a genetically engineered tomato may be your first line of defense against high blood pressure. Biotech ...
Viewpoint: ‘Green neo-colonialism’ — Utopian visions of organic farming promote starvation in Africa
Across Africa, farmers and governments are struggling to feed growing populations. Ongoing and deadly locusts and Fall Armyworm infestations, cancer-causing ...
Viewpoint: Should genetically edited food be on your dinner plate? A synthetic biologist and a sociologist say ‘yes’
Nicola Patron: Oil from soybeans gene-edited to produce a “high oleic” oil with no trans fats and less saturated fat is already ...
Dismissing sizable sustainability benefits, organic industry petitions USDA to block hydroponics from being classified as organic
Organic food producers, which eschew synthetic pesticides for "natural" ones, regularly market their products as more sustainable than conventional offerings, but they're not ...
Managed honeybee and bumble bee colonies in the US are up as much as 85%, a 60 year high, as independent researchers challenge bee apocalypse narrative
The Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is amongst the best-monitored insects but the state of other managed pollinators is less well ...
Kiel University study: Double disaster — Europe’s Green Deal Farm to Fork plan would undermine environmental sustainability goals with no significant economic payoff
A significant reduction in agricultural production in the European Union with full implementation of the Farm to Fork Strategy of ...
