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Chinese embrace fake news on GMOs, with many believing they are US bioterrorism weapons

Alliance for Science | 
Numerous public opinion surveys have shown that Chinese people have a sharply negative attitude towards genetically modified foods, despite the ...
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US FDA approves GMO Golden Rice as safe to eat

Alliance for Science | 
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Golden Rice, marking the third positive international assessment for the genetically engineered ...
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Viewpoint: Uganda’s promising GMO crops blocked by anti-science NGOs

New Vision | 
Though Uganda's scientists, working with international partners, have now developed better staple crops, their hands have been tied by the success ...
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Viewpoint: Brazil GMO label shows need to balance transparency and science

Alliance for Science | 
Since 2003, Brazilian law has required all consumer products containing genetically modified material to carry a scary-looking label that depicts ...
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Large-scale switch to organic farming would imperil natural habitats, study finds

Alliance for Science | 
Organic agriculture is not as good for the environment as commonly believed, according to a new scientific study reviewing multiple lines of ...
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Anti-GMO network protests Golden Rice commercialization in Philippines

Alliance for Science | 
More than two dozen anti-GMO groups are meeting in the Philippines in a last-ditch attempt to stop the deployment of ...
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Ugandan farmers, scientists hope to bring solution to armyworm invasion blocked by anti-GMO activists

Alliance for Science | 
Ugandan scientists are confident that their latest field trials of genetically modified drought-tolerant and insect-resistant maize are yielding promising results, ...
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Rice gene could dramatically boost several crops’ yields and drought tolerance

Alliance for Science | 
Scientists have moved a step closer to identifying how an obscure gene from rice can dramatically improve yields in some ...
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GMO peace treaty: Mark Lynas lays out 7 steps to stop the fighting

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The following is part of a speech by environmental writer and activist Mark Lynas at the 2018 Oxford Farming Conference [W]hat ...
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Ecomodernist agriculture: Farmers need science and technology to limit environmental footprint

Successful Farming | 
It takes roughly 6 square miles to support one hunting-gathering human. Modern intensive farming, by contrast, can support up to ...
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Anti-GMO group March Against Monsanto promotes, profits from anti-vaccine ads

Alliance for Science | 
Visit the March Against Monsanto website and you'll see a strange ad peppering the pages, among the usual dubious stories about ...
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Glyphosate, Monsanto and Europe: How science and reason almost lost out to hysteria and emotion

Alliance for Science | 
The glyphosate saga is a fascinating case study in how easily politics can derail science. In watching the glyphosate issue ...
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Anti-biotechnology fake news: ‘Natural News’ claims RNAi used to ‘eliminate black people’

Alliance for Science | 
Anti-GMO campaigners are promoting a new conspiracy theory conflating the pioneering genetics technology of RNAi with anti-vaxxer myths and a ...
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Survey showing health benefits from non-GMO diet? ‘The misinformation is staggering’

Alliance for Science | 
It was the stuff of anti-GMO activists' dreams: A “peer-reviewed” paper, published in a scientific-looking journal with an impressive title, detailing ...
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How one farmer stood up to anti-GMO activists and the Italian state—and won

Alliance for Science | 
As chair of the local farmers federation [Giorgio Fidenato, a small-holder farmer growing corn, tomatoes and soybeans in Italy] pushes for ...
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Talking Biotech: Former anti-GMO activist Mark Lynas on how resistance to crop biotechnology hurts small African farms

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Mark Lynas, Cornell Alliance for Science: "Moral injustice" of NGOs preventing Africans from adopting GMO crops driven by "green ideology" ...
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Passage of Ugandan biotech law opens access to vitamin-fortified, disease-resistant crops

Alliance for Science | 
Genetically engineered crops that promise to benefit both farmers and consumers are poised to enter Uganda’s marketplace now that its ...
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Studies cited by GMO and climate change skeptics similarly flawed, research shows

Alliance for Science | 
Benestad, Hayhoe and colleagues developed an open-source analytical tool to replicate and test the results and methodologies of these 38 ...
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Viewpoint: Africa must modernize farms by embracing biotechnology to fight malnutrition

Daily Nation | 
[Editor's note: Mark Lynas is a British journalist and environmentalist.] Africa desperately needs agricultural modernisation. With the most rapidly growing population ...
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Why GMOs face tough go in China despite huge imports and successful crops

Alliance for Science | 
[Editor’s note: Mark Lynas is an author and journalist who reports on crop biotechnology around the world.] Sometimes I hear ...
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Tanzania’s biosafety regulations force researchers to burn harvest from GMO corn field trial despite food shortages

Alliance for Science | 
In keeping with strict biosafety regulations, all the GM maize material is burned once the harvest data is collected. The ...
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Tanzania’s first ever GMO field trial: Drought-tolerant, insect-resistant corn ‘shows promising results’

Alliance for Science | 
Tanzania's first-ever genetically-modified crop trial was planted only a 30-minute drive from the capital. ... A year ago the Tanzanian ...
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Drought-tolerant genetically engineered maize poised to help African farmers adapt to changing climate

Alliance for Science | 
[Editor's note: Mark Lynas is an author and journalist who reports on crop biotechnology around the world.] Tanzania's first-ever genetically ...
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UN Biodiversity Conference: Anti-technology NGOs aim to block gene drive, CRISPR, synthetic biology

Alliance for Science | 
The UN Biodiversity Conference is taking place in Cancun through December 17. Activist groups and ... international NGOs can have a ...
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UN FAO report endorses biotech crops as important climate change tools

Alliance for Science | 
The report ... renews the [Food and Agricultural Organization]''s focus on “climate-smart agriculture,” which combines both adaptation and mitigation in improved ...
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Mark Lynas: India’s GMO mustard will bring cheaper hybrids, not increase herbicide use

Business Standard | 
In an interview with Sanjeeb Mukherjee, Mark Lynas, a reporter with the Cornell Alliance who reports on crop biotechnology around ...

Former anti-GMO campaigner Mark Lynas: Green movement should support crop biotech

SíQuiero Transgénicos | 
Former anti-GMO campaigner Mark Lynas discusses what changed his mind about GMOs. He addresses why the green movement is so threatened ...
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Anti-GMO activists can’t admit success of Bangladesh’s insect-resistant GMO eggplant

Jakarta Post | 
For more than a decade controversy has raged in the world’s media about whether genetically engineered crops are dangerous, as ...
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