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GM, drought-tolerant, insect-resistant corn could save Nigeria $168 million in pesticide imports annually
Nigeria could save $168 million worth of chemical import annually from the production of the new maize variety. [TELA maize ...
Viewpoint: Activist ‘armchair’ farmers keep life-saving technology out of Africa
Farmers in more developed climes use sophisticated technologies such as robots, temperature and moisture sensors, aerial images, drones and GPS ...
Thai scientist argues country ready for GM crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Standing in the frontline of ...
Can gene editing preserve line between medicine and eugenics?
CRISPR is the latest chapter in a long, darkly comic history of human genetic improvement. Like whole-gene engineering in the ...
De-extinction aspirations walk line between noble and selfish
The conceit of Beth Shapiro's disturbing and thoughtful new book, How to Clone a Mammoth, is that it is a ...
Health, ethics, or money: What’s really driving CRISPR debate?
A momentous technological revolution is unfolding in our very real, no longer fictive ability to easily and cheaply alter the ...
Liberal mag Nation on food fight: GMOs can provide sustainable food
In about 40 years, relentless dry spells may be more frequent across the Southwest, say climate scientists, and California may have ...
Borlaug’s Green Revolution: Neither green, nor revolutionary
The Rockefeller Foundation, always around for funding long-term investments such as food and agriculture which the US government views as ...
Opinion: Death by GM contamination
How did all this happen? Easily. By steady, unrelenting persuasion by a chemical-cum-GM seed multinational sitting around in Pakistan the ...
Destroy GMO-tainted papaya crops, researcher says
Academics yesterday called on the Agriculture Department to destroy farms growing Hawaiian papaya in Kanchanaburi province after a recent study ...
