Alliance for Science
From GMOs to CRISPR: Making sense of how genetic engineering tweaks nature
Many new genetic engineering techniques have been stumbled upon by accident. Studying how bacteria defend themselves has led to CRISPR ...
Video: Iowa farmer explains how GMO crops enable greenhouse gas reducing no-till farming
Ron Sass, a corn and soybean farmer from northeast Iowa, discusses how agricultural biotechnology has helped his family farm, and ...
Nigeria needs GMO seeds to feed growing population, says nation’s top scientist
Nigerian scientists are drumming up support for modern agricultural biotechnology, saying the country cannot feed its growing population with the ...
Ugandan farmers, scientists hope to bring solution to armyworm invasion blocked by anti-GMO activists
Ugandan scientists are confident that their latest field trials of genetically modified drought-tolerant and insect-resistant maize are yielding promising results, ...
Lost resistance: GMO cassava project demonstrates difficulties of crop improvement
In Sub-saharan Africa, cassava serves as a major staple for most people; in fact it is the third largest carbohydrate ...
Bangladesh embraces GMO crops to boost yields, reduce pesticide use
Bangladesh is the world’s seventh-largest producer of potatoes. Most of the crop is grown by small-holder farmers. Akhter Hossain, a ...
Rice gene could dramatically boost several crops’ yields and drought tolerance
Scientists have moved a step closer to identifying how an obscure gene from rice can dramatically improve yields in some ...
Despite GMO cotton controversy, Burkina Faso still open to GE crops, sterile mosquitoes to combat malaria
Agriculturalists in Burkina Faso say their country is still open to using the tools of biotechnology, despite the decision to stop ...
Will South American powerhouses Brazil and Argentina regulate new breeding techniques (NBTs) as GMOs?
New breeding techniques, or “NBTs” as they have come to be known, are a set of innovative tools that can ...
‘Come stay with me’: Indian farmer invites anti-GMO activists to see how biotech cotton improves lives
Balwinder Kang has a simple message for those who don’t think Indian farmers like him should be able to utilize ...
Top Mexican university endorses GMOs: ‘Unfair and immoral’ that farmers don’t have access to biotech
The national debate about the use of GMOs in Mexico experienced a significant shift when the technology received strong academic ...
Burkina Faso abandons insect-resistant GMO cotton, suffers lower yields
As Burkina Faso farmers predicted, their nation has lost its standing as Africa’s largest producer of cotton since halting the ...
As climate heats up, can drought-tolerant GMO crops help prevent famine and conflict?
When most of us think about the threats posed by climate change, events like floods, droughts, intense storms and hotter ...
Viewpoint: Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni should trust country’s scientists—not activists—on GMO safety
Editor's note: Arthur Makara is the executive director of the Science Foundation for Livelihoods and Development in Uganda When [Uganda's] President ...
DNA testing could enable rapid response to damaging wheat stem rust
A global team led by researchers in Australia has achieved a dramatic breakthrough in dealing with stem rust, a fungal ...
How African nations expect to learn from Burkina Faso’s GMO Bt cotton breeding problems
Stakeholders in the agricultural biotechnology sector are offering assurances that the problems that prompted Burkina Faso to temporarily halt cultivation ...
Phase out of GMO cotton in Burkina Faso taking increasing toll on farmers and industry
When cotton traders in Burkina Faso announced in 2015 that they were phasing out the cultivation of genetically modified cotton, they attributed ...
Remembering Calestous Juma, defender of agricultural innovation and GMOs
To outsiders, Calestous Juma's rise from humble origins in a remote Kenyan village to an internationally recognized Harvard scholar, science ...
Can Burkina Faso’s problems with Monsanto’s GMO cotton seeds be fixed?
In the early 2000s, the US agricultural firm Monsanto began tests to introduce genetically engineered cotton seeds with the potential ...
GMOs in South Africa: Benefits of biotech crops changing women farmers’ minds
As a young girl, Tepsy Eve Ntseoane never thought she’d grow up to be a farmer, let alone an advocate for ...
Anti-GMO group March Against Monsanto promotes, profits from anti-vaccine ads
Visit the March Against Monsanto website and you'll see a strange ad peppering the pages, among the usual dubious stories about ...
Fighting poverty with GMOs: Filipino farmers turn to insect-resistant Bt corn to boost yields, income
Agricultural choices don't just affect food availability. They also have significant economic and social ramifications. A case in point is the ...
Glyphosate, Monsanto and Europe: How science and reason almost lost out to hysteria and emotion
The glyphosate saga is a fascinating case study in how easily politics can derail science. In watching the glyphosate issue ...
GMO Bt cotton poised to revive Philippines’ industry, reduce pesticide use
Following a multi-year slump, the Philippine cotton industry is anticipating a renaissance through the help of an innovative, science-based crop that farmers ...
Video: Former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on ‘troubling trend’ of misleading food labels
There’s been a lot of talk about the mandatory GMO disclosure law passed by the US Congress in 2016. The ...
Anti-biotechnology fake news: ‘Natural News’ claims RNAi used to ‘eliminate black people’
Anti-GMO campaigners are promoting a new conspiracy theory conflating the pioneering genetics technology of RNAi with anti-vaxxer myths and a ...
GMO stigma: The challenge of growing virus-resistant papaya in Hawaii
[Michael] Kamiya is a strong supporter of agricultural technology, which he credits for saving his family’s farm. He has childhood ...
Survey showing health benefits from non-GMO diet? ‘The misinformation is staggering’
It was the stuff of anti-GMO activists' dreams: A “peer-reviewed” paper, published in a scientific-looking journal with an impressive title, detailing ...
