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Once ‘misinformed and misled’ about GMOs, Ugandan farmers eager to grow disease-resistant cassava
Farmers from five districts in the West Nile region in North Western Uganda are upbeat about the prospect of growing ...
Zimbabwe lifts GMO corn import ban to avert famine amid worst drought in 40 years
Zimbabwe has quietly lifted a ban on imports of genetically modified corn for the first time in 12 years as ...
Former holistic nutritionist explains why she demonized GMOs—and how science changed her mind
For years, I was deeply embedded in the wellness world in my own life. Then I decided to work in ...
Consumer curiosity fuels popularity of GMO Impossible Burger and other plant-based meats, survey shows
The top reason why consumers decided to eat plant-based meat alternatives is because they like to try new foods, according ...
Video: Filipino farmers ‘clamor’ for access to GMO insect-resistant Bt eggplant
SEARCA Biotechnology Information Center (SEARCA BIC) releases The Bt Eggplant Story, a new video series that documents the development of Bt ...
GMO Golden Rice meets safety standards set by Philippines, Bangladesh, and Indonesia, assessment shows
Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) persists as a major public health nutrition problem, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Severe ...
GMO herbicide-tolerant canola increased Canadian farm profits $233 million, saved consumers $26 million
Many think that the developers of new technologies are the ones who gain virtually all of the benefits, with consumers ...
Post-Brexit UK may accept GMO crop imports from US, Prime Minister Boris Johnson hints
Boris Johnson has hinted at allowing genetically modified food to be imported from the US after Brexit as he called ...
Kenya GMO Bt insect-resistant cotton approval signals end to farmers’ misery, farm group tells president
Following Kenya's recent approval of GMO insect-resistant cotton, veteran maize and cotton farmer Daniel Magondu penned this letter to the ...
Lab-grown dairy proteins could make vegan cheese as good as the real thing
Vegan cheese isn’t what it used to be. The products of yesteryear had a reputation for being plastic-y slices with ...
India should ‘definitely adopt’ new GMO crops, nation’s top biotech cotton expert argues
The logjam in approval of newer genetically modified (GM) cotton seeds [in India] has catalyzed planting of unauthorized seeds known ...
Pushing back on activist efforts to reinstate South Australia’s GMO crop ban
As fires and drought devastate Australia, scores of protesters call on government to take action on “catastrophic” climate change. Green ...
A Rwandan farmer’s son: Why I advocate for GMO crops in Africa
Being raised in a family where all income came from my mother’s farm is something hard to forget. My mother ...
Viewpoint: Mandatory gene-edited food labels would ease consumer fear of CRISPR
The food industry’s last venture into genetic engineering, more than 30 years ago, was a commercial success for agriculture ...
Viewpoint: “On the wrong side of humanity and science”, Greenpeace Philippines launches last gasp effort to derail GMO Golden Rice approval
The time has come for all parties to embrace this humanitarian innovation ...
41% of Americans have had plant-based meat, survey shows, and most will keep eating it
Forty-one percent of Americans report having personally tried a plant-based meat, with age being the biggest factor in whether they ...
EU officials open to ‘science-based’ decision making on CRISPR crops, USDA’s Sonny Perdue says
When it comes to food, EU policymakers should make science-based decisions if they want to help European their farmers tackle ...
Video: Biotech firm Syngenta defends GMO crops, Impossible Burger as climate change mitigation tools
Syngenta Chief Executive Officer Erik Fyrwald discusses the need to help farmers adapt to climate change, genetically-modified food and the ...
Viewpoint: India’s proposed CRISPR crop rules could ‘severely constrain’ gene-editing innovation
At long last, [India's] Department of Biotechnology has [published] draft genome editing guidelines on January 9 for month-long public comments ...
GMO crops with enhanced carbon-storing ability could help slow climate change
More than 10 percent of the Earth’s land-surface is cropped, about 3.7 billion acres of carbon sequestration Farmers’ toolkits for ...
More science education may not quell consumer fear of GMO, gene-edited crops, Japanese study suggests
A team of researchers [in Japan] conducted a survey to explore the opinions and attitudes of both Japanese experts and ...
Post-Brexit UK will follow EU GMO, gene-edited crop rules, but long-term regulatory divergence still possible
On 1 February, responsibility for approving novel foods passes from the European Food Standards Agency (EFSA) to the UK Food ...
Despite biotech expert protest, anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva gives unopposed Stanford speech condemning ‘industrial agriculture’
Environmental activist Vandana Shiva delivered her talk “Soil not Oil: Biodiversity-Based Agriculture to Address the Climate Crisis” on [Jan. 23] ...
Biotech industry aims to avoid backlash from GMO-wary consumers as CRISPR-edited crops near mass commercialization
The biotechnology industry wants to avoid repeating mistakes with gene editing that it made nearly three decades ago with transgenic ...
Herbicide-tolerant GMO soy ‘as safe as conventional counterpart’, confirms EU safety panel
In the present scientific opinion, the scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms of the European Food Safety Authority (hereafter referred ...
Nigerian anti-GMO groups resume lawsuit alleging biotech crops violate ‘fundamental rights to life’
The Registered Trustees of Health of Mother Earth Foundation and 16 other organisations have resumed a lawsuit against the National ...
Nearly half of US fruit growers want biotech crops, survey shows, but fear consumers won’t buy GMO products
And you thought growers could go on and on about problems with the weather, or their employees, or any of ...
