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Three Billion and Counting
The Biotech Counter at the Truth About Trade & Technology (TATT) website passed the 3 billion acres planted milestone on Friday November 4, 2011. The counters continuously track the number of acres planted and harvested with biotech crops worldwide.
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The Food Security Reader: The Best of Truth about Trade & Technology
It’s our new book, we’ve been writing these pieces every week for over a decade. It turns out that a few of them hold up pretty well. So we’ve gathered the finest in a new anthology. Purchase your copy now on Amazon.com
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Kleckner Speaks Out
Don’t Mess With the Single-Focused USTR
I have a message for President Obama: Don’t mess with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Earlier this month, the President spoke of the need to improve the government’s performance–and he amplified this theme on Tuesday night, in his State of the Union address. “The executive branch also needs to change,” he said. “Too [...]
Board Commentary
An Antidote of Truth for The Atlantic’s Misinformation
“You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts,” said the late senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. The editors of The Atlantic should hang this line in their newsroom. If they had paid more attention to its wisdom, they might have saved their magazine from an embarrassment last week. [...]
Trade Policy Analysis
Brazilian Pork Imports and Harmonization of Standards
The Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) of USDA has given approval for six pork processing plants in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina to export fresh pork to the U.S. After an 18 month review, Brazilian inspectors have been determined to be available in sufficient numbers and properly trained to establish the compliance of plants [...]
Guest Commentary
African Farmers Will Help Feed the Billions
The world now has 7 billion people in it but the population growth didn’t stop there. Demographers at the U.N. Population Fund said the big milestone came on the 31st day of October, focusing on a Philippine mother and her new-born. In Kenya, the Daily Nation newspaper highlighted a Kenyan mother and her newborn, also [...]
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Sugar-HFCS study disputed
Brownfield Ag Network January 26, 2012 By Bob Meyer Another round in the fight between the sugar and corn sweeteners. The latest is a study from the University of Colorado Denver and the University of Florida which compared high fructose corn syrup and sucrose (table sugar) in the human body. The study was conducted at [...]
Boosting the Country’s Food Security
The Manilla Bulletin January 17, 2012 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines will be the launch pad for the marketing of Golden Rice by 2013. The launch is seen to boost global food security and reduce malnutrition. The Philippines was the first to commercialize the genetically modified Bacillus thuringiensis corn in Asia in 2002. It will [...]
Bill Gates Calls For More Agriculture Research To Fight Hunger
Huffington Post January 24, 2012 By Donna Gordon Blankinship KIRKLAND, Wash. — Bill Gates has a terse response to criticism that the high-tech solutions he advocates for world hunger are too expensive or bad for the environment: Countries can embrace modern seed technology and genetic modification or their citizens will starve. When he was in [...]
How Kenya Is Building a Sustainable Banana
Bloomberg January 24, 2012 By Alan Bjerga The Kenya Agricultural Research Institute is banana paradise. The artificial sun shines on plants for 16 hours a day and hides for eight. Tender green shoots luxuriate in pint jars containing a milky liquid that’s rich in all the nutrients a growing banana needs. It’s a sterile environment, [...]
GM barley trial ‘success’
The Land (Australia) January 27, 2012 By Gregor Heard WA-BASED researchers have heralded the first year of genetically modified barley trials a success. The trials, held at Corrigin in the state’s central wheat belt, are looking at potential salt-tolerant varieties, and are being conducted by the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG) ACPFG researcher [...]
Cameron to Urge More Bilateral Trade Deals After Doha Failure
Bloomberg Business Week January 26, 2012 By Gonzalo Vina Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) — British Prime Minister David Cameron will call on other nations to pursue bilateral trade accords while a “coalition of the willing” among them seeks broader regional free-trade agreements, including a European Union deal with the U.S. Cameron will say in a speech [...]
Iowa agriculture will be high on Chinese V-P’s agenda
Brownfield AG Network January 26, 2012 By Ken Anderson Agriculture is expected to be high on the agenda when Chinese vice president Xi Jinping visits Iowa in mid-February. Xi is considered the man most likely to be China’s next president and his U.S. visit is expected to garner considerable media coverage. Iowa ag secretary Bill [...]
Farmers embrace biotech
Capital Press (Oregon) January 26, 2012 Editorial While litigation surrounding transgenic alfalfa will likely live on for some time to come, farmers seem to have settled their questions on the issue. At least that’s what we take from a recent survey of growers by Daniel Putnam and Steve Orloff at the University of California-Davis. The [...]
Don’t ignore benefits of GM, says chief scientist
Farmers Weekly (UK) January 23, 2012 By Philip Case Genetically-modified crops could play an important role in helping prevent a future global food crisis, according to the government’s chief scientific adviser. Sir John Beddington said he saw no safety reasons for opposing GM crops, provided they were rigorously checked for their impact on health and [...]
Europe eyes US free trade agreement
Sydney Morning Herald / AP January 27, 2012 By Frank Jordans British Prime Minister David Cameron has given his support to the idea of a free trade deal between the European Union and the US, suggesting that a trans-Atlantic pact could deliver a much-needed boost to global commerce. His call for a bilateral deal with [...]