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.
Africa ‘missed out’ on Green Revolution, needs ‘growth spark’ from biotech
Sub-Saharan Africa's agricultural sector needs to harvest the fruits of biotechnology in order to establish sustainable development, says a report. A ...
GMOs could save honeybees by eliminating virus and mites
President Obama has made saving pollinators a top priority, announcing the assembly of a task force designated to saving the ...
Center for Food Safety intervenes to defend Vermont GMO labeling law
Two advocacy groups are looking to help defend the state against an industry group lawsuit against Vermont’s GMO labeling law. The ...
Anti-GMO groups seek to remove Europe’s chief scientific adviser
If you can't change the science, change the scientists. This is what nine groups opposed to genetically modified organisms want ...
Oregon’s GMO labeling initiative qualifies for November ballot
Oregonians will decide in November whether they want to mandate that companies label genetically modified foods. The Secretary of State's Office ...
Do Hawaii counties have authority to regulate GM crops and pesticides?
The question of whether or not counties have the authority to regulate pesticide use and genetically engineered crops was at ...
‘Hateful’ example of anti-GMO activism illustrates dangers when emotion overpowers reason
There is a frightening, hateful turn of events taking place right now that anyone involved in the GMO issue, or ...
Better for Monsanto to surrender on labeling battle to win war over GMOs
An ABC news poll conducted last year found that 52 percent of people believe that GMOs are unsafe, and another 13 percent ...
2014 World Food Prize recipient: ‘Shameful’ if India lets biotech pass
Dr Sanjaya Rajaram often remembers that his mentor, Nobel Peace prize winner Dr Norman Borlaug, always said: “Peace does not ...
Mike Adams claims Monsanto set up “kill GMO supporters” website, as scientists, journalists face death threats
Knight Science Journalism's Paul Raeburn has weighed in on the increasingly sordid Mike Adams fiasco. He writes: An anti-GMO activist ...
Nigerian scientists declare opponents of biotech ‘enemies’ of African development
As the controversy over the safety of biotechnology continues, Nigerian scientists yesterday reiterated their stand on the safety of the ...
Independent safety research needed to rebuild public trust in GM products
The Dutch Commission on Genetic Modification (COGEM), a statutory advisory body of scientists created to provide advice to government on ...
Anti-GMO activist campaign slams biofortified GM crops, claims biodiversity ‘far better’
Attempts to genetically modify food staples, such as crops and cattle, to increase their nutritional value and overall performance have ...
Study claiming organic more nutritious captures why it’s harder to figure out risk
A study in the news last week perfectly captures why it’s getting harder and harder to figure out what’s risky ...
Video: Africa’s leaders need education about role of biotech in agriculture
As a boy growing up on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya, Harvard international development professor Calestous Juma noticed ...
How GM crops can help address India’s food security problems
The new environment minister Prakash Javadekar is yet to take a call on allowing further trials of genetically-modified (GM) crops ...
Kauai seeks $50,000 more for private attorneys defending anti-GMO, pesticides law
Kauai’s county attorney has asked the county council for more money to defend a new law regulating genetically engineered crops ...
Why GM debates do not persuade public opinion
When, earlier this year, SciDev.Net decided to host a live online debate around genetically modified (GM) plants and animals, it was because we knew ...
Editorial: Consumers want transparency, Congress should mandate GMO labeling nationwide
The fight over genetic engineering boils down to this underlying disagreement: Consumers want to know what is in the foods they ...
Plant-based, animal-free cow’s milk soon to be reality with GM yeast
Biohackers Ryan Pandya and Perumal Gandhi are working on crafting a plant-based concoction that’s nearly identical in makeup to what’s ...
No fooling science with anti-GMO myths
The internet is full of false information about genetically modified crops and derived food. Unfortunately the average person — including many ...
Biotech can help increase food security in sub-Saharan Africa but opportunities ignored
Transforming agriculture is central to sub-Saharan Africa's development prospects. Three-quarters of people in extreme poverty – existing on less than $1.25 a day ...
Debunking claims of no long-term and independent GMO studies
One of the complaints I hear most is “there are no GM food studies done by independents, it’s all company ...
Editorial: Congress should step in on GMO labeling wars
Congress might not be accomplishing much these days, but that doesn't mean it's not wrestling with significant issues. One of ...
Faces of Molokai dependent on biotech industry with little say in proposed GMO ban
Civil Beat photographer turned his lens on employees, farmers and their families on Molokai, the island where Big Biotech is ...
Will consumers accept GM yeast that could save our oceans?
Scientists at DuPont have genetically modified a yeast to produce a long-chain omega-3 fatty acid, essential to human health and ...
Nutrition scientist fights to save Golden Rice research from retraction
In hopes of preventing the retraction of her 2012 paper in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, which led to much controversy regarding ...
