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Reality check: Eating locally grown food isn’t always the most sustainable option

Nicholas Staropoli | 
Eating local has not achieved its goal of reducing emissions through fewer food miles. The fix could include embracing genetic ...
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7 ways biotechnology could change our lives in 2019

Julia Sklar | 
[Editor's note: Key researchers and scientists were asked for their thoughts on 2019.]  Gene editing, food innovation, and synthetic biology ...
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Can we meet a growing need for food without destroying our environment?

Paul McDivitt | 
'Sustainable intensification' takes the best ideas from conventional and organic farming ...
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Can we feed a growing world population without using yield-boosting technologies?

Stuart Smyth | 
The production of food has environmental impacts, there is no way around this .... Nature is ruthless and weeds will ...
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Viewpoint: Intensive agriculture is the only way to sustainably feed the world

Ted Nordhaus | 
[In December], the World Resources Institute (WRI) released a comprehensive study embracing agricultural intensification as the only way to simultaneously close what ...
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We need to produce 56 percent more calories by 2050—can we do it sustainably?

Brad Plumer | 
 If the world hopes to make meaningful progress on climate change, it won’t be enough for cars and factories to ...
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‘Low to non-existent’ safety risks and higher yields support widespread adoption of GMO crops, researchers say

Carzoli et al. | 
The anticipated world population growth emphasizes a need to produce more food on less land. Cutting-edge technologies, including genetic engineering, can ...
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Could green benefits of biotech crops win over ‘ideological’ environmentalists?

Ronald Bailey | 
A new study in Nature Sustainability reports that “[e]xtensive field data suggest that impacts on wild populations would be greatly reduced through boosting yields ...
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How is India’s organic-only farming experiment in Sikkim going? Peering past the propaganda, not so sustainably.

Marc Brazeau | 
India's farm sector is in massive flux and strife right now. After a massive ten-day strike in June, Indian farmers ...
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With limited arable land available around the world, is organic farming sustainable?

Steven Novella | 
This question comes up frequently in discussions of farming practices – how much arable land is there on the Earth, ...
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Viewpoint: Eliminating pesticides from farming isn’t realistic—or desirable

Terry Daynard | 
In about 1980, I visited several International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) research sites in Mexico. The trip included ...
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We produce enough food on this planet to feed everyone: So why do we need GMOs?

Andrew Porterfield | 
A new "planetary boundaries" study says agriculture can be more sustainable to save the planet. Others say the numbers don't ...
Viewpoint: If your interest is sustainability, organic and GMO labels won't inform you

Viewpoint: If your interest is sustainability, organic and GMO labels won’t inform you

Maria Trainer | 
Focusing on tools and technologies—such as genetic engineering—can reduce agriculture's environmental footprint and promote sustainability, writes geneticist Maria Trainer ...
Viewpoint: Will Europe botch regulation of gene editing as it has GMOs?

Viewpoint: Will Europe botch regulation of gene editing as it has GMOs?

Hannes Kollist | 
Plant biologist: Europe's precautionary stance toward agricultural biotechnology has all but blocked the introduction of GM crops and could provide ...
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Is organic farming sustainable? 5 carbon footprint challenges

David Despain | 
Along with unsubstantiated claims of better nutrition and safety, supporters of organic farming often cite its lower carbon footprint as ...
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Viewpoint: Anti-GMO online series promotes fear and ‘less sustainable’ farming

Alison Van Eenennaam | 
Works like the recently released "GMOs Revealed" are making it more difficult for new agricultural techniques to gain widespread acceptance ...
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When genetic engineering is the environmentally friendly choice

Paul Vincelli | 
The newest generation of genetically engineered crops, using CRISPR gene editing, can help farmers fight pests with only minimal changes ...
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Farms are not like Eden: The case for aggressive human intervention in agriculture

Andrew McGuire | 
Farming is controlling nature for our own purposes. There is no utopian state. We should stop trying to restore, recover, ...
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To make farming more sustainable, don’t mimic nature — do it better

Andrew McGuire | 
Behind many efforts to make agriculture more sustainable is the idea that our farming systems need to be more like ...
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