Truth about Trade & Technology
Sustainable intensification in global agriculture
The following is an edited excerpt. [Farmers are] under constant pressure to do more with less. The economic reality of ...
No labeling needed when consumers know the whole truth
The following is an excerpt. Shop at Whole Foods. Spend your Whole Paycheck. That’s the popular description of the upscale ...
A moral weight for the agricultural tool of biotechnology
The following is an edited excerpt. As Catholic cardinals selected Pope Francis in Rome on Wednesday, we watched an ancient ...
Poland backs away from agricultural biotech
Last month Poland banned an important farm technology for purely political reasons and without any scientific justification, argues a Polish ...
Getting GM salmon to dinner table faces political hurdles
Now that the FDA has declared GM salmon safe to eat, the fish could become more abundant and less expensive ...
Separating wheat from chaff at the genetic level
It may be the greatest thing since sliced bread. Heck, it may be even better than sliced bread. Several weeks ...
“Just Label It” crowd’s true mission is to ban GM crops
Anti-biotech activists are like zombies in a horror movie: No matter how many times you defeat them, they keep snapping ...
Indian farmer calls for access to biotechnology
Farming in India has reached a very crucial phase. In a scenario of rising consumption needs and aspirations, and dwindling ...
GM crops are vital to Africa’s future
If our continent is ever going to feed itself, we’re going to have to beat the odds–and adopt the same ...
International approvals slow for biotech crops
The global market for biotech crops will continue to be fractured unless international approvals are harmonized.Each nation has its own ...
Kenyan farmer to California voters: Your vote on Prop 37 will impact me
When the United States votes on November 6, many Kenyans will want to see if Americans will re-elect President Obama, ...
The unintended consequences of California Prop 37
So let’s exercise our right to know. Prop 37 is widely described as a referendum to require special labels for ...
The case of the GMO papaya: How does it relate to the Prop 37 fight?
Until Californians go to the ballot box on Nov. 6, rhetoric from both supporters and opponents of the state’s Proposition ...
No letup on Roundup Ready alfalfa and other GMOs, says pro-GM blogger
Last month I talked to a PCA in the southern San Joaquin Valley who was surprised at an alfalfa grower’s ...
Proposition 37 in California: A high-stakes food fight?
California’s crowded November ballot includes white-hot measures to raise taxes, amend the state’s Three Strikes Law and repeal the death ...
EU science advisor: Policy shouldn’t trump science regarding GMO’s
Politicians sometimes shy away from science, but they should be clear about why they reject scientific evidence in future, the ...
Commentary: What are the consequences of labeling GM food?
Genetically modified organisms in agriculture have been a source of controversy since their introduction in the mid-1990s. On the one ...
China: Australia can feed our “dining boom” with GM crops
The Australian government’s first national food strategy underscores what agricultural scientists have been saying for the past decade – that ...
US and South American farmers unite to support biotechnology in the European Union
Farmers who produce 90 percent of the world’s soybean exports have joined forces to support biotechnology in the European Union ...
USDA speeds release of data on biotech crops
The USDA is speeding up the public release of data about genetically engineered crops submitted by biotech developers. Under the ...
Cultivation of cotton goes up in EG
The cultivation of genetically modified (BACILLUS Thuringiensis) BT-2 cotton has increased substantially in East Godavari district this current season as ...
Protests set for Food Prize events
The Occupy movement will target what Cordaro called “the corporate ownership of the World Food Prize, especially its dominance by ...
The catfish solution
It’s not often we get to use the words “good news” and “farm bill” in the same sentence, but even ...
Greenpeace only has scare tactics against GMOs, claims previous Greenpeace member
Environmental activists scare the world’s population against biotechnology based on fiction, said Patrick Moore, Ph.D., a founder of Greenpeace and ...
Genetically modified crops encourage beneficial bugs
Environmentalists might one day run barefooted through insect-rich fields of genetically modified crops. At least, they might if the conclusions ...
Fifth generation farmer defends biotechnology
A handful of outspoken activists are attempting to slow down or ban the use of biotechnology. To support their ideological ...
Hawaii’s biotech papayas hold a lesson for America
A new supply of fresh papayas from Hawaii will reach grocery-store shelves in Japan this year and consumers have biotechnology ...