Ronald Herring
Viewpoint: ‘Discrimination against new crops’: India speeds up approval process for gene-edited crops — but still disadvantages safe GMOs
The Indian government exempted crops with certain kinds of genetic modifications introduced by genome editing from cumbersome and time-consuming regulations previously imposed ...
Viewpoint: India’s ‘foreign DNA’ delusion — Why the country needs to modernize genetically modified crop regulations
India has a long and dubious record of regulating genetically altered crops for agriculture. While the nation began at the ...
How gene-edited crops could spell the end of the infamous term ‘GMO’
Political and social controversies, as well as complications of plant breeding, intellectual property, and regulation, have compromised the promised impact ...
Talking Biotech: Cornell’s Ronald Herring on Vandana Shiva’s anti-biotechnology crusade in India
Cornell’s Ronald Herring on Vandana Shiva's anti-biotechnology crusade in India ...
Talking Biotech: Cornell’s Ronald Herring rebukes GMO link to Indian farmer suicides
Cornell’s Ronald Herring rebukes GMO link to Indian farmer suicides ...
Politics of GMOs in India: Bt cotton vs. Bt brinjal
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We must begin with ...
Genetic engineering of food not magic bullet, but important tool
Ronald J. Herring, professor of government and international professor of agriculture and rural development at Cornell University, US, believes that ...
Bt cotton huge success in India defies anti-GMO conspiracy theories
In disputes around Bt cotton, a “triumph narrative” is alleged to have emerged from researchers - mainly economists - catering ...
Cornell scientist: Exaggerated caution slows adoption of GM crops
In normal science, risk has a precise but deceptively simple meaning: risk equals the probability of some hazard. Anyone booking ...
