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.
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 ...
Ministers meet farming leaders to discuss GMs
The future of GM crops in Britain will be a key subject for discussion during a meeting between government ministers ...
Africa: EC contributes 5 million euros to help farmers maintain crop diversity
The European Commission is contributing more than €5 million (6.5 million dollars) towards the Benefit-sharing Fund of the International Treaty ...
Science Minister: more focus needed on agricultural research, including GM
Britain must place a renewed focus on agricultural research including GM projects, or risk falling behind other countries like Brazil, ...
Shun pesticides and go organic, say activists
In a bid to eradicate pesticides from farming in India, the Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture (ASHA) has started ...
Keeping the green in putting greens
An ARS researcher has developed a tool to more accurately identify non-uniform plants that can adversely affect the appearance and ...
Energy beet project moves forward
An energy beet project is going toward planned commercialization in 2014 in North Dakota, despite the loss of a key ...
Uganda may allow genetically modified crops to boost production
Uganda is considering a law to allow genetically modified crops to boost production, according to an industry group supporting biotech ...
Chewing over GM labels
Mandatory labelling of genetically modified (GM) products is likely to increase costs across the value chain, an executive of Canadian ...
New GM industry push in the UK
BBC Radio 4 reported in its headlines this morning that the Agriculture Biotechnology Council had published a new report "Going ...
Monsanto crop bans by courts would be reversed in bill
A House of Representatives committee voted to let farmers grow genetically modified crops developed by Monsanto Co. (MON) and its ...
Plea for allowing research trial on developing genetic crops
Government should allow scientists to conduct research trials for developing genetically modified crops and ensure technology is taken to the ...
Overcoming obstacles to GM crop adoption
This policy brief, published by the UK's Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), examines the potential benefits and challenges ...
Canada’s swine genetics industry poised to help feed growing population
Last week’s announcement that the Ukrainian market has opened to live swine and swine genetics is a step in the ...
GMOs, fastest path to enhanced ag productivity in Africa
Executive Director at the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), Dr. Denis Kyetere, has said improved seeds, especially by genetic modification ...
Govt should promote GM crops to meet food demand, say GM supporters
In a bid to meet the food security needs of Pakistan’s growing population, the participants at a seminar urged the ...
Time for a re-think on GM crops?
What would it take to break the impasse on GM crops? That's a problem that has been exercising minds at ...
Genetically modified grass blamed for mass cattle deaths in Texas
A form of genetically modified grass is being cited as the likely culprit in the sudden death of a herd ...
