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Keeping the Sweet Corn Sweet
Who loves sweet corn as much as we do? Bugs! Just about everyone knows the frustration of driving to the grocery store or your local market, locating the bins of freshly-picked sweet corn, and shucking a few husks to check for quality. Then you see it, usually near the top of the cob: A tiny [...]
Rebuild the African Breadbasket with the Power of Fertilizer and Promise of Biotechnology
Africa’s farmers must do better. The population of our continent continues to grow, but our ability to produce food remains stuck in the past. Experts say that global food production has to double by 2050 in order to meet demand–yet here in Africa, the average yield of grain crops hasn’t increased since the 1960s. There’s [...]
Obama Files a Complaint Over China
Publication — The New York Times Author — By Mark Landler Date — March 13, 2012 Website — www.nytimes.com WASHINGTON — If there was ever any doubt about the political salience of China in an election year, it was erased Tuesday, when President Obama stepped before cameras in the White House Rose Garden to announce [...]
Public concern over GM food has lessened, survey shows
Publication — The Guardian (UK) Author(s) — By Adam Vaughan Date — March 9, 2012 Website — www.guardian.co.uk The UK public’s concern over genetically modified food has softened in the past decade, according to a new survey. A quarter of Britons are now unconcerned by GM food, compared with 17% nearly a decade ago, when supermarkets debated whether to introduce GM [...]
When Technophobia Becomes Toxic
Project Syndicate February 29, 2012 Henry I. Miller Did you that know Project Syndicate is launching a new Web site? To read this article on the beta version of our new site, please click here. STANFORD – During the late 1990’s, a singular phenomenon appeared in countries around the world. One after another, food and beverage companies capitulated [...]
Developing countries embracing biotech crops
The Nation (Pakistan) March 6, 2012 By Staff Reporter LAHORE – Speakers at a seminar highlighted benefits of using technology in agriculture, saying biotech crops were helpful in addressing global challenges of increasing food production in changing climatic conditions and improving environment. They were of the view that biotech crops would help meet needs of [...]
Research Paper from Calestous Juma Available
Technological Abundance for Global Agriculture: The Role of Biotechnology by Calestous Juma is part of the Faculty Research Working Paper Series at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Words Matter: Biotechnology Does Not Contaminate
Sometimes you just have to pay attention. I do not grow organic crops on my farm and often do not listen to discussions about organic rules and regulations. That is a mistake, because some pretty obscure language from the United States Department of Agriculture is important to me and other farmers that plant biotech seeds. [...]
Organic Farming Cannot Feed The World
Woody Allen won an Oscar for the screenplay to his film Midnight in Paris on Sunday night, but he didn’t collect his golden statue in person. He’s semi-famous for not attending the Academy Awards, which is odd because he also once said that 80 percent of success is just showing up. There’s a lot of [...]
MPs tell scientists to petition House over biotech Bill
Daily Monitor (Uganda) February 20, 2012 By Joseph Miti Legislators have advised scientists and Ugandans endeavouring to advance biotechnology science for national development to seek Parliament’s support in fast-tracking the biotechnology and biosafety law. Speaking at workshop at National Crops Resource Research Institute (Nacrri), Namulonge, on Saturday, Mr Robert Ssebunya, the Kyadondo South MP, said [...]
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