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Viewpoint: Global food security threatened by Europe’s anti-GMO ‘food bullying’
The Farm to Fork program in Europe is designed to regulate food production in the E.U. as well as promote ...
Video: We can ‘finally’ grow GMOs—Nigerian farmer explains why developing countries need biotech crops
Nigerian farmer Patience Koku discusses the GMO crop trials she is conducting on her farm, and why growers can "rise ...
Promoting CRISPR crops at the expense of GMOs is short-sighted when we need both
With an ever-growing CRISPR genome-editing toolbox, scientists are creating crops that can resist diseases and pests, withstand global warming, and ...
Can gene-edited crops be ‘detected’? Claims by Greenpeace and anti-biotech activists dismissed by safety officials, scientists
A joint report by several NGOs caused a stir on September 7th by claiming that [gene editing] was now detectable ...
GMO soy permit revoked by Mexico, but illegal planting expected to continue
The TFJA [The Federal Court of Administrative Justice] Specialized Chamber for Environmental Matters and Regulation has issued a new resolution ...
New meta-analysis finds Bt crops have no impact on soil biota
A new meta-analysis finds that genetically modified Bt crops — in stark contrast to some pesticides — have no impact ...
Biotech experts push back after week-long protest to block Philippines Golden Rice approval
Golden Rice is any rice variety that has been genetically modified to include two genes (from maize and soil bacteria) ...
Canada’s demand for GMO Impossible Burger grows as consumers cut meat from diets
Responding to “overwhelming demand” in Canada, the Impossible Burger will be available this year in a wider variety of restaurants ...
Viewpoint: UN’s ‘hand-in-glove’ alliance with anti-pesticide groups cripples response to Africa’s ravenous locust swarms
In a year devastated by locust plagues, the COVID-19 pandemic, and massive flooding that displaced over a hundred thousand people ...
Podcast: Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue interviews GLP’s Jon Entine on feeding the world sustainably through biotech innovation and challenging the ‘myth of organics’
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue wants to welcome you to his very own podcast – “The Sonnyside of the Farm.” ...
Viewpoint: India shouldn’t let activists derail field trials of insect-resistant GMO eggplant
In a welcome sign that the decade-long benign indifference to technology infusion in the farm sector is set to change ...
Animal biotech could help tackle disease that costs Africa’s cattle farmers $1 billion annually
Animal biotechnology has been primed to contribute significantly towards addressing the challenge of food security, especially in the developing world ...
Anti-GMO activists move to block Bt insect-resistant eggplant field trials in India
Ten years after imposing a moratorium on commercial release of genetically modified Bt Brinjal, the [federal government] has now allowed ...
Edible plant-based vaccines could help quash infectious diseases in poor countries
Edible plant-based vaccines were developed to become part of the solution to address the possible hazards associated with the parenteral ...
Viewpoint: Why the USDA should approve GMO disease-resistant chestnut trees
You may [have] heard “chestnuts on an open fire” at Christmas but they are a lot of rarer than they ...
EPA may relax rules on some pest-resistant crops to promote ‘science-based’ regulation
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to exempt from its regulation some biotech crops that are genetically engineered to be ...
Viewpoint: US farm productivity shows Europe why rejecting biotech crops was a mistake
Over the past two decades, Europe has decided to go its own way in agricultural policy. While both North and ...
GMO corn could help combat voracious pests, drought in Nigeria, field study shows
Nigeria’s quest to introduce maize varieties resistant to insect pests such as Stem Borer and Fall Army Worm (FAW) and ...
Chile poised to tackle food shortages and climate change with ‘Golden Apple’ and other CRISPR-edited crops
Chile’s intense political unrest exacerbated by months of COVID-19 quarantine has temporarily overshadowed a relentless environmental, farming crisis: an intense ...
Insect-resistant cowpea demonstrations across Nigeria aim to build farmer support for GMO crop
The Institute for Agricultural Research, Ahmadu Bello University (IAR/ABU) Zaria and the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) have concluded arrangements ...
FDA launches high-school curriculum to teach students about GMOs, CRISPR
Food agriculture is a topic of great interest to farmers, consumers, scientists, educators, and many people of all ages. After ...
Podcast: Activism’s dark side—Earth Liberation Front bombs ‘GMO’ tree lab, destroys endangered plants instead
Law enforcement agencies keep a watchful eye on environmental groups that have engaged in eco-terrorism, notably Greenpeace and PETA, and ...
Rainfed GMO insect-resistant Bt cotton in India cuts pesticide use 28 percent, study finds
Scientists from Alagappa University in India conducted a study to analyze the performance of insect resistant Bt cotton in rainfed areas. The results are published ...
Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat dismiss criticism from rival Lightlife Foods as a PR stunt
In an open letter slammed by Impossible Foods as cynical and disingenuous and dismissed by one commentator as a “PR ...
Lightlife urges Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods to drop ‘hyper-processed ingredients, GMOs’ from plant-based burgers
About a year ago, Lightlife President Dan Curtin challenged his team to make the cleanest plant-based burger they could create, ...
Video: USDA to decide fate of American chestnut restoration
University researchers are seeking approval to restore the iconic chestnut to American forests by using a genetically engineered (GE) variety ...
How tech-driven, ‘eco-rational’ environmentalism can help solve the world’s problems
Few of us are committed to having an evidence-based worldview — it’s truly hard to do. We have to remain ...
