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.
Chinese scientists identify yield-boosting rice gene
Researchers in China have identified a rice gene that could improve both the quality and yield of the staple crop ...
Pressure groups intensify campaign to derail GM guidance
Pressure groups Friends of the Earth (FoE) and GM Freeze have stepped up their campaign to derail EU safety guidelines ...
Genetically modified cotton gets high marks in India
Smallholder farmers in central and southern India who planted genetically modified (GM) cotton achieve larger yields, greater profits and a ...
Slow EU approvals seen growing threat to soy trade
Slow European Union approval of genetically modified soybeans is likely to pose a growing threat to trade as the pace ...
GMO ban: Risks for science-based assessments
French President François Hollande will face judicial problems over the ban on the cultivation of genetically modified plants, and this ...
Is Monsanto sabotaging efforts to label genetically modified food?
As the 2012 Farm Bill continues to take shape in the halls of the United States Congress, the immense influence ...
Amniotic fluid yields alternatives to embryonic stem cells
Stem cells found in amniotic fluid can be transformed into a more versatile state similar to embryonic stem cells, according ...
International experts analyse the socio-economic impacts of GM crops
The proceedings of an international workshop on the current state of play regarding research into economic impacts of GMO cultivation ...
Types and uses of cassava
The plant has certainly been “rediscovered” and in many countries significant research has begun to evaluate the use of cassava ...
Easy tracking of GM content
With debate about the safety of genetically modified (GM) crops, it is important for food processors to be able to ...
Expert warns of illegal GM papaya on EU market
Food Navigator are reporting a warning from Richard Werran of the GM testing firm Cert ID that a wave of ...
DNA scissors developed at Berkeley lab
Following a study that could have significant implications for the fields of genetic engineering and genomics research, investigators at the ...
Kenya: Importers oppose conditions on GMOs
A year after the government put labeling regulations on importation of all Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) Products, the Cereal Millers ...
Taking the bite out of GM apples
A small BC company called Okanagan Specialty Fruits (OSF) has developed a genetically modified apple that will not turn brown ...
Mutation that makes tomatoes bland identified as gene deliberately bred for color
Plant geneticists say they have discovered an answer to a near universal question: Why are tomatoes usually so tasteless? ...
More countries ban GMOs
While the use of GM crops is rapidly taking over the world, some countries have taken the bold step to ...
Protests set for Food Prize events
The Occupy movement will target what Cordaro called “the corporate ownership of the World Food Prize, especially its dominance by ...
Cultivation of cotton goes up in EG
The cultivation of genetically modified (BACILLUS Thuringiensis) BT-2 cotton has increased substantially in East Godavari district this current season as ...
The catfish solution
It’s not often we get to use the words “good news” and “farm bill” in the same sentence, but even ...
GM food that prevents cancer, makes you healthier?
There is a lot of reasonable debate about the safety of changing the genetic makeup of things we eat, but ...
Unlikely support for Bt/GM crops
The Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) bacteria protein in plants have not harmed monarch butterflies, honey bees, rats or shown up in ...
Kenya: Why Kenya has to adopt biotechnology in farming
Today a new revolution is knocking at Africa's door-agricultural biotechnology. It promises to do for agriculture what mobile technology has ...
Asia–Pacific Analysis: Plan for growth in biotech crops
Since biotechnology-derived crops were introduced in 1996, they have been adopted at an unprecedented rate, according to the 2011 annual ...
Cows genetically modified to produce healthier milk
Chinese scientists have developed and unveiled a genetically modified cow whose milk they claim is healthier, triggering fresh alarm over ...
Just Label It urges defeat of Farmers Assurance Bill
Just Label It, the national coalition for genetically engineered (GE) food labeling, urged Americans to fight special interests in Washington ...
Greenpeace only has scare tactics against GMOs, claims previous Greenpeace member
Environmental activists scare the world’s population against biotechnology based on fiction, said Patrick Moore, Ph.D., a founder of Greenpeace and ...
Prairie cordgrass: Potential for energy crop
When D.K. Lee and Lane Rayburn, faculty members in the crop sciences department at the University of Illinois, talk about ...
