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Philippines legislature advances bill to expedite 65-month-long GMO crop approval process
The House Committee on Science and Technology has approved a bill seeking to eliminate the regulatory complications hampering the commercial ...
Impossible Foods applies for approval to sell GMO plant-based burgers in New Zealand
The American food technology company Impossible Foods has applied to the food safety regulator for approval of its genetically engineered ...
China issues safety approvals for herbicide-tolerant, insect-resistant corn and soybean, paving the way for local GMO crop cultivation
China’s agriculture ministry issued biosafety certificates on [Jan. 21] for domestically grown, genetically modified (GM) corn and soybean traits, moving ...
Nigeria’s biotech regulator urges farmers to embrace GMO Bt insect-resistant cotton and cowpea to grow nation’s economy
The National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), on [Jan. 20], urged Nigerian farmers to embrace Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and technology-driven ...
GMO, gene-edited crops face uncertain future in UK despite post-Brexit hopes for relaxed biotech rules
Growing and selling genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is permitted in the UK but GMO products are subject to a lengthy ...
Natural GMOs: Study shows that 12 popular foods were genetically modified by mother nature
Even though no one has found any evidence that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are harmful, anti-GMO activists have campaigned against ...
Scientists and farmers dispute ag minister’s claim that Ghana doesn’t need GMOs
Scientists and farmers warn that Ghana’s agricultural sector will struggle if the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMO) is delayed ...
Burkina Faso ‘farmer of the year’ calls for return of Bt cotton
Wiledio Naboho, the 2019 Alliance for Science Farmer of the Year, is mounting fresh pressure on the Burkina Faso government ...
Viewpoint: GMO crops should become a bigger part of the food system if we want a sustainable society
If we all work towards understanding science rather than being afraid of it, we can build a world where we ...
US-China deal reduces trade barriers for GMO crops, says USDA’s Sonny Perdue
U.S. Secretary Perdue issued the following statement after President Donald J. Trump signed the historic Phase One Trade Agreement between ...
Viewpoint: Historical opposition to tractors in farming mirrors modern campaign against GMO crops
[T]ractors made farm work more efficient and lowered food prices, but they also drove many farmers out of business. Farms ...
Improved seeds key to sustainable food security, African plant breeders say
Strategies now being rolled out to ensure food security on the African continent are unsustainable, according to the African Plant ...
Does organic mean ‘pesticide free’? 5 things to know about the USDA organic label
Here's what you're actually getting for that 'organic' premium price ...
Using GMO technology to restore the blight-devastated American chestnut: State University of New York awarded breakthrough $3.2 million Templeton Foundation grant
[The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry] has received its largest-ever charitable gift, $3.2 million, ...
India moves to restrict cultivation of illegal but easily acquired GMO herbicide-tolerant, insect-resistant cotton
Amid reports of cultivation of [an] unapproved variety of transgenic HTBt [herbicide-tolerant, insect-resistant] cotton seeds, the Union environment ministry has ...
Judge rebuffs lawsuit challenging FDA authority to regulate AquAdvantage GMO salmon as a drug
Remember the GMO salmon? It was created by a company called AquaBounty back in 1989 and approved by the Food ...
10 things you should know about Impossible Foods’ new GMO plant-based ‘pork’
Here comes the other faux white meat. Impossible Foods, the brand behind [2018's] Impossible Burger 2.0 craze, captivated the attention ...
Viewpoint: ‘Conspiracy theorist’ Zen Honeycutt spins tall tales about GMOs, glyphosate weed killer on CBS Los Angeles
If the media has a question about biomedical science, one would assume that a scientist or doctor would be the ...
39 biotech experts’ open letter protests anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva’s ‘anti-science’ talks at Stanford and UC Santa Cruz
An activist who compares GMOs to rape and fertilizers to war should not be given a platform ...
With 92% of U.S. corn coming from GMO plants, farmers see yield boom despite severe flooding
Under pressure from soggy fields, late planting and bouts of early winter weather, American corn and soy plants proved resilient ...
Viewpoint: After years of bashing agriculture and GMOs, Chipotle reverses course with ‘Cultivate the Future of Farming’ campaign
Given Chipotle's past cozy relationship with organic food marketers, this seems more like a marketing stunt ...
Nigeria gears up for two GMO crops in the 2020 planting season
Nigeria made significant progress in agricultural biotechnology in 2019, approving two genetically modified (GM) crops — pest-resistant Bt cotton and ...
Geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam explains how the CRISPR gene editing ‘revolution’ can improve our food
The final instalment of Technology Networks Explores the CRISPR Revolution is an interview with Dr Alison Van Eenennaam, a livestock ...
Pro-GMO documentary ‘Food Evolution’ censored in France?
In a confidential report, the cinematographic distribution company 2iFilms recounts its misadventures concerning the broadcasting of the documentary Food Evolution ...
Viewpoint: At least 200,000 people die every year GMO Golden Rice is kept off the market
This is not a story of incompetence and ignorance, but of an antediluvian hostility to science and technology ...
Activists escalate efforts to stop Indian farmers from using GMO seeds
Anti-GMO activists in India have escalated their war on the country’s resource-poor farmers by moving their efforts to stop genetically ...
Podcast: Agricultural economist Stuart Smyth explains the risks and benefits of GMOs and the future of crop biotechnology
Few academics eagerly engage the public on controversial scientific topics, content to quietly focus on their research. Agricultural economist and ...
