Brazil
FDA approves sugar made from Brazil’s first Bt insect resistant sugarcane variety
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has concluded that it is safe to consume sugar produced from the genetically ...
Brazilian judge suspends glyphosate use, citing concerns about herbicide’s toxicity
A Brazilian judge has suspended the use of products containing the agrochemical glyphosate, a widely employed herbicide for soy and ...
GMO coffee is on the horizon—but will we drink it?
Remember the Gros Michel banana? If you're under the age of seventy, you probably don't. That's because in the 1950s ...
15 surprising GMO and gene-edited crop advances underway in South and Central America
Latin America is a vital region in the global production of genetically modified (GM) crops, with Brazil and Argentina ranked ...
Does Uganda need GMOs? Scientists look to gene editing to spur innovation
Even as scientists in Uganda and other African countries aggressively push for approvals of new disease-fighting GMO crops, the focus ...
With GMO insect-resistant sugarcane approval, Brazilian farmers poised to reap benefits of biotech pipeline
With the approval of Brazil's fourth genetically-engineered crop--insect-resistant sugarcane--Brazil is emerging as the most genetically innovative developing country ...
Activists behind Zika virus conspiracy theories, Argentine pesticide birth defect scare
South America's suffering from a number of epidemics. The worst one may just be misinformation ...
