Sustainability / GreenGenes
Food production needs are expected to roughly double over the next 35 years as the world population grows and people in under developed countries become more affluent and demand more calories. Healthy ecosystems are vital to the survival of all organisms. How can we grow crops without harming the environment? How can we balance technology and global food security? What is the right balance of organic and conventional farming? What role can genetics and biotechnology play without compromising the needs of tomorrow?
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Rothamsted GM trial: Scientists against activists
Genetically modified (GM) foods have been off the shelves and out of British fields for many years now. But the ...
Researchers mark milestone in pursuit of switchgrass genome
In Washington, in an attempt to piece together the switchgrass genome, the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) in an international ...
Maps of Miscanthus genome offer insight into grass evolution
Miscanthus grasses are used in gardens, burned for heat and energy, and converted into liquid fuels. They also belong to ...
India loses faith in GM cotton
Ten years after it was introduced to India, genetically modified cotton is not living up to its promise. It is ...
Why GM crops are a moral necessity
Professor of international development at Harvard, Calestous Juma has called on Africa to form an "International Institute for Biotechnology" that ...
Green fuel is possible with artificial ecosystems
Algae could become an important source of sustainable biofuel, as production doesn't compete with food crops for land. But we ...
Monsanto’s deep roots in Washington
Love it or hate it -- and there are plenty of people on either side -- the company controls much ...
Kenya: The GM debate is more than about biosafety
This month, after almost a decade of intense debate, Kenya is expected to become the third country in Sub-Saharan Africa ...
Octopus genes may foretell climate rise problems
Now, genetic evidence from an Antarctic octopus reveals that this may have happened at some point in the not-too-distant past ...
GM critics in Malyasia on attack
Contrary to national interest, Or hopelessly flawed. Take your pick. Whatever your choice, in what is billed as the Great ...
Turkey’s biosafety law causes heavy losses to agri-food chain
According to the new Economic Impact Assessment by British consultant Graham Brookes (PG Economics), Turkey’s biosafety law has had a ...
Why is the Gates Foundation helping Monsanto push GMOs?
Monsanto and the Gates Foundation claim genetically modified crops will revolutionize agriculture in Kenya, but critics warn the technology is ...
Tanzania: Call for review of GMO rules
SOME stakeholders in the cotton industry have demanded the strict liability clause in bio-safety regulatory framework to be removed to ...
Grant will help scientists uncover hidden soybean genes
Soybeans are the world's largest single source of vegetable protein and edible oil, already used to make livestock feed, soymilk, ...
Scientists now raise fears on safety of GMOs
Dr Lubano Kizito of the Kenya Medical Research Institute said the human health is crucial and thus safety issues that ...
Opinions on genetic engineering that aren’t worth a bean
Just in time for Earth Day in April, a Stanford Magazine article about the farming of soybeans offered a rich ...
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, ...
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 ...
Faith in nature can be fatal: Creating allergen free foods through GM technology
How can one simple word -- organic -- have such different meanings? ...
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 ...
