It’s safe. It would help farmers deal with drought, support biodiversity, protect the environment and decrease a farms carbon footprint. It would help consumers cope with inflation and pay their food ...
2022 has been a difficult year for European agriculture. We can start with the Russia/Ukraine conflict and how that has changed market conditions and supply chains of certain critical things, like ...
Gene-edited crops are no safer than GMOs, and fast-tracking regulatory approval could trigger a costly backlash.
VATICAN CITY — As the world's population increases, so, of course, does the demand for food. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization predicts that, over the next 25 years, global food ...
Hunger and undernourishment are two elements of food insecurity that have plagued Africa for years. And the menace is growing. In 2022, the African region accounted for the highest level of hunger as ...
Steven Broyles, professor and chair of SUNY Cortland’s Biological Sciences Department, will discuss the pressing issues surrounding the role of genetically modified food in global sustainability on ...
Although genetically modified crops have some big advantages over their regular counterparts, initially creating the modified plants can be quite challenging. Scientists have now developed a simpler ...
Canada is ranked among the countries that produce the most genetically modified crops. According to the ISAAA, Canada dedicated 11.6 million hectares for the cultivation of GM crops in 2014. Some of ...
Genetically modified squash plants that are resistant to a debilitating viral disease become more vulnerable to a fatal bacterial infection, according to biologists. "Cultivated squash is susceptible ...
Researchers have developed a way to improve crop quality without needing to create special genetically modified plants. The new technique relies on a spray that introduces bioactive molecules into ...
Greenpeace on Friday (6 April) applauded the Thai Government’s decision to stop the release of all Genetically Modified (GM) crops into the environment and no longer allow any GM field trials in ...
The rise of gene-edited embryos has raised a myriad of ethical questions. It involves altering DNA to prevent disease or even to choose specific traits using a method known as CRISPR. In 2018, Chinese ...