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Will fear-based product labels fade in 2019? 5 food and farming predictions for the new year
Welcome, 2019! [In 2018 we] experienced newer diet trends where Keto and Whole30 reigned as some of the most popular ...
10 GMO memes backed up by science
Anti-GMO activists have churned out memes critical of GM crops and food. Now science enthusiasts are fighting back with fact-based ...
USDA releases long-awaited GMO labeling rules
New disclosure requirements finalized by USDA for biotech foods will mandate the use of the term "bioengineered" while providing a key exemption for ...
Viewpoint: If farmers want the public’s trust, they should change how they talk to consumers
The president of Bayer CropScience Canada, Al Driver, had just finished talking about why his company decided to purchase Monsanto ...
India should give its farmers access to more GMO crops, scientist argues
Amid rising concerns over .... Genetically Modified (GM) crops in India, leading biologist Nina Fedoroff has suggested that it [is] ...
Audio: Crash course on the CRISPR-edited foods headed for grocery stores
Genetically modified organisms, GMOs, have been common on American farms for years. But a new generation of gene-edited food, through ...
Africa could miss the ‘gene revolution’ if it fails to embrace crop biotech, experts say
Africa can’t afford to be left behind as the gene revolution transforms modern farming, African agricultural experts say. This is ...
Can we meet a growing need for food without destroying our environment?
'Sustainable intensification' takes the best ideas from conventional and organic farming ...
Nigeria releases GMO cowpea, urges farmers not to reject technology out of fear
After nine years of field trials, the Federal Government has released genetically modified .... cowpeas to farmers in [Nigeria]. Director ...
GMO houseplant traps carcinogenic chemicals that home air filters miss
[M]ost of us like to keep the air in our homes as clean as possible and we often go to ...
Viewpoint: Indian scientist M.S. Swaminathan’s unscientific attack on GMO crops won’t help his country grow more food
[In November], Indian journal Current Science published a thinly-veiled attack against the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture .... [T]he Current Science piece ...
M.S. Swaminathan, ‘father of India’s Green Revolution,’ says he’s not opposed to GMO crops
An iconic Indian agricultural scientist is distancing himself from a recent editorial he co-authored that is critical of genetically modified ...
Video: Kenya to begin planting yield-boosting GMO cotton by spring 2020
Cotton farmers in Kenya are set to start planting genetically modified cotton by May 2020, a year later than expected, ...
Viewpoint: How to talk to your anti-GMO relatives during the holidays
We all have them. This brother-in-law or sister-in-law, who is very active on social networks. You accepted his friendly request for family ...
Adoption of GMO cowpea, rice could offer substantial boost to Ghana’s farmers and consumers, study says
Cowpea is the most widely produced grain legume in Ghana and a key food security crop. In northern Ghana, where ...
India’s Supreme Court set to rule whether Monsanto maintains its patent rights on GMO Bt Corn
All eyes in India are currently on the country’s Supreme Court where the agro-biotech giant Monsanto is battling to reclaim ...
Africa’s farmers lack vital information about the benefits of GMO crops, expert says
African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) on [December 16] expressed displeasure over lack of knowledge of Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) among ...
Are we ‘meddling with creation’ by growing GMO crops?
[F]or some, it’s a stretch to reconcile faith with new developments in agriculture, especially when it involves (perceived) meddling with ...
Can AI-enhanced plant breeding deliver high yielding non-GMO crops?
Hi Fidelity Genetics (HFG), a company that uses sensors, data science, and statistical genetics to create non-genetically modified crops, just ...
Biotech could help Mexico’s bean farmers cope with climate change
Beans are the most important grain legume in human diets .... Indeed, bean production is central to the food security ...
Can GMO agave transform the tequila industry?
Black frost is a meteorological phenomenon marked by temperatures that drop below 0 ° C for up to five hours ...
Why are farmers so eager to grow GMO crops?
Genetically modified (GM) crops are produced using new genetic engineering methods. Since their development slightly over 20 years ago, they ...
Another study challenges controversial, retracted Séralini paper suggesting GMO corn causes cancer
Do you remember those spectacular images of rats fed GMO corn with invasive cancers, so big that the tumors looked like ...
Evaluating claims GMOs and modern agriculture have led to a 75% drop in crop diversity
The conventional wisdom is wrong: crop diversity is not collapsing. Our changing diets indicate there are reasons for both concern ...
Fight against fall armyworm in Africa hindered by ‘anti-GMO sentiment’, scientist argues
Though anti-GMO sentiment is restraining agricultural advancement in the developing world, an Iowa State University agronomist hopes his research will ...
Viewpoint: Arguments against crop gene editing rely on ‘cherry-picking half-truths’
Critics of the use of advanced biotechnologies in the agri-food sector (“New Breeding Techniques,” comprising CRISPR) demand a strict regulation ...
Do GMO American chestnut trees pose a threat to the environment? Two new studies say no
Two new studies on the environmental impact of transgenic American chestnut trees provide evidence that the trees have no harmful ...
