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GM insect-resistant Bt corn boosts crop yields over 30%, cuts insecticide use 78% in Vietnam, study finds

Graham Brookes, Tran Xuan Dinh | 
This study assessed the farm-level economic and environmental impacts from the use of genetically modified (GM) corn in Vietnam (resistant ...
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Vietnam’s glyphosate ban: Beginning of a dangerous global trend?

Vietnam’s decision to ban farmers from using glyphosate is troubling in three ways: it appears to rely on decisions set ...
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USDA: Vietnam’s glyphosate ban ‘devastating’ to global agricultural production

Khanh Vu, Tom Polansek | 
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue on [April 11] criticized Vietnam’s move to ban imports of glyphosate herbicide [Bayer's Roundup], ...
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US Roundup-cancer trials spur glyphosate import ban in Vietnam

Vietnam has banned the import of glyphosate-containing herbicides after a U.S. court ruled that a weed killer, produced and sold ...
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GMO coffee is on the horizon—but will we drink it?

Ross Pomeroy | 
Remember the Gros Michel banana? If you're under the age of seventy, you probably don't. That's because in the 1950s ...
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Myth busting: Why Agent Orange has nothing do to with GMOs and the herbicide 2,4-D

Andrew Porterfield | 
By spreading misinformation about the herbicide 2,4-D, which IARC says is less hazardous than glyphosate, anti-GMO activists seek to deny ...
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