Foreign Policy
How the battle over Ukrainian grain supplies threatens EU unity
The breadbasket of Europe, Ukraine has for years exported vast quantities of grain through the Black Sea. But after Russia’s invasion ...
Challenging ‘green’ wisdom: Why Africa desperately needs more, not less, access to synthetic fertilizers
The European Commission has opposed a plan to support expanding fertilizer production in Africa because it would clash with the European Union’s ...
Viewpoint: The UK could be CRISPR crop pioneers — but only if ‘overly restrictive and outdated’ gene-edited crop ban falls
In May, the United Kingdom introduced a bill that would allow the commercial cultivation and sale of gene-edited crops, which are functionally banned under ...
Viewpoint: Food activists lobbied for an organic-only, no synthetic pesticide model in Sri Lanka. Here’s why it went so catastrophically wrong
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa promised in his 2019 election campaign to transition the country’s farmers to organic agriculture over a period of years. The ...
Farms of the future: Precision growing, smart robotics and AI usher in new era of agriculture
Smart solutions allow farmers to exactly understand the crop needs and plan activities correspondingly, which saves costs and reduces environmental ...
‘They offer a magical vision of a better future but not in this world’: In Foreign Policy, social scientists opposed to conventional agriculture spark fierce organic vs intensive farming debate
A recent back and forth has stirred up controversy over at Foregin Policy. Are “Big Ag” and intensive farming destroying ...
Viewpoint: Is our western food system based on ‘intensive agriculture’ broken? Not if the environment and alleviating poverty and hunger matter
In the popular bourgeois imagination, the idealized farm looks something like the ones that sell produce at local farmers markets ...
Viewpoint: Golden Rice—how ‘stultifying overregulation, fear and hostility’ kept a GMO superfood off the market
The superfood thus seemed to have everything going for it: It would be the basis for a sea change in ...
With the age of biotechnology here, China’s spotty history with bioethics raises concerns
As China’s advances in biotechnology come closer to the secrets of life, they pose tantalizing prospects for the future. But when standards ...
Viewpoint: China’s push to export its traditional medicine threatens to pump up ‘pseudoscience’
[T]raditional Chinese medicine is thoroughly institutionalized: Every major city has a traditional medicine hospital and university. A special government department exists ...
Russian politicians embrace pseudoscientists in campaign against GMOs
Irina Yermakova [is] a biologist and regular commentator on Russian national television. Yermakova is on the record as believing that men, as ...
GPS, drones, robots: Precision agriculture transforming food and farming
Thanks to what is known as “precision agriculture,” farmers can now collect precise data about their fields and use that ...
World woefully under supporting Ebola response
World, you still just don't get it. The Ebola epidemic that is raging across West Africa, killing more than half ...
Genetic testing of far-right Hungarian politician provokes an uproar
If you think running for office in the United States is rigorous, then you haven't met Hungary's far-right Jobbik party ...
