Daily Food & Agriculture Digest
Every day, the staff of the Genes and Science scours the Web for stories on a range of agricultural and food issues, including the GMO debate, conventional and organic farming, regulations, new breeding technologies and sustainability. We publish excerpts of those stories and encourage our readers to visit the original publications for the complete stories.
Importance of global food supply and security
The importance of a secure global food supply extends beyond the threat of hunger and malnutrition into wider security concerns, ...
Kenya to get 249 million GMO technology boost
KENYA is set to benefit from a US $ 3 million grant seeking to enhance knowledge sharing and awareness on ...
GM crops and Africa: Agricultural potential
Today, I had the opportunity to speak with Calestous Juma, professor of the practice of international development at Harvard. Juma ...
Optimize use of biotech in pest management
As biotechnology requires huge investment in terms of facilities as well as manpower, it was suggested that “Centre of Excellence” ...
£1.25m cash for crop research
Researchers at the institute will identify DNA markers that can be used in barley breeding programmes to eliminate potential varieties ...
Algae could help feed the world
Algae as a base for fuel is becoming less common since subsidies dried up and speculative algae-based biofuel companies are ...
“Green bullet” innovations aim to feed world of 9 billion
These are just a few of the kinds of innovations and initiatives that experts say will be critical if the ...
Frankenfish is here and unlabeled
The FDA announced it considers the Genetically Engineered AquaAdvantage salmon safe before Labor Day. The Alaskan Senator Mark Begrich called ...
Seed size Is controlled by maternally produced small RNAs
Seed size is controlled by small RNA molecules inherited from a plant’s mother, a discovery from scientists at The University ...
Agrimovie series: Genetically modified food
Toad Pear raises some good points. Almost all the food we grow is a modification of ‘natural’ foods – plants ...
Mom: ‘I’d never buy organics because I’m afraid there are dangerous pesticides on conventional produce’
YOU NEED TO SAY IN AN EDITOR'S NOTE WHO THIS 'MOM' IS When my son was a baby, organic was a synonym ...
