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Patenting plants: Here’s why the oft-criticized system enables innovation
Intellectual property rights can be classified as copyrights and industrial property rights. Copyrights cover intellectual and artistic works. Industrial property ...
Viewpoint: Hunger crisis — The number of countries unable to feed their populations has soared 400% since 2000. Here’s why crop biotechnology is a key solution
In the face of increasing population, adversely changing climate, shrinking agricultural lands, inputs such as energy, fertilizer and pestisite that ...
Viewpoint: Biotechnology rejectionists claim the Green Revolution caused more harm than good. Here are the facts.
After the Second World War, regional famines began to occur. Believing that increasing agricultural performance can be the solution to ...
As seafood demand soars and the ocean is denuded of fish, plant-based salmon offers sustainable path forward
It is estimated that by 2050 demand for food overall will increase by 70% , while seafood demand will increase ...
Will climate change lead to future food crises?
All the world organizations have already grasped the importance of this climate change, and they have rolled up their sleeves ...
Viewpoint: ‘Double advantage’ — Why organic farmers should be allowed to grow GMO seeds to pursue sustainability objectives
In recent years, with the expectation of quality life, human beings have turned to organic foods with 30-40% less product ...
Viewpoint: Double standard — EU approves genetically modified vaccines but blocks GE crops developed with the same technology
No epidemic in the world has been as impactful in health, economic and social terms as Corona-19. Following the emergence ...
The first gene-edited soybean opens door to a slew of new CRISPR foods
The number of crop gene-editing projects underway around the world is astonishing ...
Countering the impact of climate change through new breeding techniques
It is imperative that we breed new varieties of plants to make agriculture more sustainable, given increasing food demand and ...
With GMO soybean market booming, is there a future for conventional varieties?
Almost all the world's soybean grown today is GMO, which it is very difficult to find non-GMO soybeans. Begging the ...
The future of meat: Can science replace animals?
All economic activities related to research, development, production, trade and consumption of plants, animals and all other living things are ...
Future of crop biotechnology in Brazil, China and other BRIC nations
How has biotechnology fared and what is its future in agriculture of the BRIC nations—Brazil, Russia, India and China? ...
