Daily Food & Ag Digest
Every day, the staff of the Genetic Literacy Project scours the Web for stories on a range of agricultural and food issues, including the GMO debate, conventional and organic farming, regulations, new breeding technologies and sustainability. We publish excerpts of those stories and encourage our readers to visit the original publications for the complete stories.
Monsanto, Argentina reach deal on GMO soybean royalties
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto Co. and Argentina’s ...
Scientists aim to genetically tweak photosynthesis in rice, increase yield by 50%
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. C4 photosynthesis is so ...
Farm association urges farmers to respond to Clif Bar’s ‘insulting’ anti-GMO video
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It saddens me to ...
National Academies GMO report is open access, identifies funding sources
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Josh Lancette: . . . ...
UK approves field trials of blight resistant GMO potato
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) ...
Claims organic food better for health, animals, planet ‘marketing hype’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [E]verywhere ...
Conventional milk can be just as nutritious, beneficial for cows, farmers as organic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . .“Organic” ...
India needs well tested, domestically sourced GMOs for second green revolution
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . . India ...
GMO regulations dissuade Brazil’s chicken industry from importing U.S. corn feed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For Brazil’s enormous chicken ...
Congressman: VT law will cause ‘chaos’, voluntary federal GMO labeling law needed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In three weeks, the ...
Clif Bar’s anti-GMO video promotes myths, misinformation, insults farmers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In an interview for ...
Bayer wants more info, Monsanto more money as acquisition talks advance
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto. . . has still ...
State GMO labeling bills force conservatives to favor federal power over states
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Once upon a time, ...
Debate not settled, but food companies resigned to labeling GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Vermont will not implement ...
Nigerian farmers object to EU making GMO decisions for them
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We (a group of ...
Study finds dramatic local economic benefits to organic agriculture, surprising researchers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a report produced ...
‘Refuge-in-a-bag’ corn seed mixes may be accelerating Bt resistance in insects
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Farmers love "refuge-in-a-bag" (RIB) ...
EU Parliament says intensive agriculture, GMOs in Africa are ‘mistake’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For a large majority ...
Privatization, consolidation of agricultural technology, not GMOs, threaten food security
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . .There ...
Russian scientists ask for partial lifting of GMO production ban
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Russian Academy of Sciences ...
Bangladesh farmers’ video: Bt brinjal requires no pesticides, higher yields
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bangladeshi farmers discuss their ...
Prof Stefan Jansson video: No line separates GMO and non-GMO plants, foods
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genetically modified (GM) plants ...
Protein discovered in rice improves nitrogen efficiency, increases yields up to 54 percent
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In collaboration with researchers ...
African farmers confront climate change with genetically improved seeds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Less than 30 percent ...
European Greens block African use of GMOs, fertilizers, pesticides, threatening innovation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [On June 8], the ...
Senior agricultural scientist: India should drop GMO testing moratorium
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Biotechnology is the future ...
Demonizing corporations not effective way to change their practices
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . . People ...
