Sustainability
Agroecological farming is not financially sustainable and will need substantial government subsidies
A new study by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) has suggested that while nature-friendly farming methods improve ...
Feeding 10 billion in 2070: Deloitte’s vision for a food system transformation
By 2070, the global population is expected to reach nearly 10 billion, requiring a 40% increase in calorie production to ...
Which GM crops might be embraced by the organic movement — if sustainability matters
[Editor's note: Gerhart Ryffel is a professor at the Institute of Cell Biology, Essen University Hospital in Germany.] Several years ago, I ...
Sustainability: ‘Organic farming should embrace blight–resistant genetically engineered potato’
[Editor's note: This journal article is written by Godelieve Gheysenat, molecular geneticist, Ghent University in Belgium, and René Custers, regulatory and responsible research ...
Should organic agriculture consider allowing gene-edited crops?
Proponents of agricultural biotechnology are calling for a reconsideration of the organic opposition to GMOs in light of [New Plant ...
Organic food sales driven by vilification of GMOs
It is often said that innovations create winners and losers. All innovations are somewhat disruptive, but some have more distributed ...