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must reads - archive

February 2024

Shortage of plant breeders could lead to dire implications for global food security

Clement Dionglay, ISAAA, July 2024

It's time for retailers to embrace gene-edited foods

Oliver Morrison, The Grocer, July 2024

European Glyphosate Constituents Aren't From Agriculture, They're From Laundry Detergent
Hank Campbell, Science 2.0, July 2024

Ghana releases first biotech crop: the Pod Borer Resistant Cowpea

Environews Nigeria, July 2024

Waging War on Modern Agriculture and Global Nutrition

Paul Driessen, Town Hall, July 2024

Not so good after all? People who eat more organic food have more toxins in their blood

Brussels Times, July 2024

History of misery when farmers are forced to go organic

Jack DeWitt, July 2024

Let’s look at the facts on pesticides

Ieuan Evans, Grainews, July 2024

“Our food security relies on Europe’s farmers: we must give them our support”

The Parliament Magazine, July 2024

The food crisis is one of our own making

Ben Payton, Agri-Investor, July 2024

What is the bioeconomy and how can it drive sustainable development?

Stefanie Ólives, World Economic Forum, July 2024

Guest opinion: Caleb Hoversten: Going organic is a fair choice, but we need to stop considering it a superior one

Caleb Hoversten, Daily Camera, July 2024

Climate change is pushing up food prices – and worrying central banks

Financial Times, July 2024

Can Gene Editing Help Tackle Global Issues?

Wired, July 2024

How a proposed herbicide ban would actually result in greater environmental harm

Karun Samran, The Fresno Bee, July 2024

Innovation in Seed Production

Cécile Dumais-Louys, Seed World, July 2024

Farmers Want Gene-editing Technology

Cherilyn Jolly Nagel, Global Farmer Network, June 2024

Save the Whales, Blind the Children

Mark Crislip, Science-Based Medicine, June 2024

The Developing World (Still) Needs Golden Rice

Michael Fumento, The American Spectator, June 2024

Insider knowledge: How some exploit organic labels for profit

Amanda Zaluckyj, Ag Daily, June 2024

Why Eating Organic Isn’t a Climate Solution

Seth Millstein, Sentient Media, June 2024

Boosted Breeding and beyond: 3 tech trends that could end world hunger

Kristin Houser, Freethink, June 2024

Nature Knows Best? Naturalness in the Ultra-Processed Foods Debate

Hester van Hensbergen, Table Debates, June 2024

Let’s have crop regulation but don’t block science

Jack Kennedy, Irish Farmers Journal, June 2024

Opinion: Barriers continue to fall for genetically modified wheat production

Barb Glen, Bruce Dyck &b Karen Briere, Farmtario, June 2024

Food Security: FG launches high-yielding Tela maize varieties

Nigerian Tribune, June 2024

How do pesticides help agriculture? Here’s an explanation

Michelle Miller, AgDaily, June 2024

Mexico, Maize, and Food Sovereignty

L. Val Giddings, ITIF, June 2024

Q&A: The evolving debate about using genetically modified crops in a warming world

Orla Dwyer, Carbon Brief, June 2024

Greenpeace’s campaign against Golden Rice is a crime against humanity

Zion Lights, Spiked, June 2024

Cis-editing for all

Editorial, Nature Biotechnology, June 2024

Gene editing in beef cattle: The possibilities could be endless

Mark Z. Johnson, Farm Progress, June 2024

Uruguay Advances Plant Breeding Innovation with Gene Editing Decree

Elena Mansur, Seed World, June 2024

GMOs aren’t changing your DNA or causing cancer

Dr Andrea Love, Immunologic, June 2024

Our favourite charities are becoming bloated and confused - they are losing their point

Paul Baldwin, Daily Express June 2024

Scientists are on a quest for drought-resistant wheat, agriculture's 'Holy Grail'

Amanda Stephenson, CBC, June 2024

We need some easy wins - liberalising GMOs could be one

Max Salmon, The Post, June 2024

What do we want from our farms: food or flowers?

Emma Duncan, The Times, May 2024

Scientists develop mutant rice capable of resisting common crop disease — here's why it's so important

Susan Elizabeth Turek, The Cool Down, May 2024

Bogus ‘bee-mageddon’ is another fake environmental catastrophe scam creating buzz

John Stossel, New York Post, May 2024

Australian trial of gene-edited wheat aims for 10% bigger yields

Reuters, May 2024

GMOs and genetic engineering are wildly misunderstood

Dr Andrea Love, Immunologic, May 2024

Can the harsh conditions of space breed more resistant crops for Earth?

Diana Kruzman, Grist, May 2024

Argentina’s Bioceres makes world's first sales of genetically modified wheat seeds

Reuters, May 2024

How can genetically modified organisms be safely integrated into organic farming practices to ensure food security?

Dr Luis Vaschetto, AzoLifeSciences, May 2024

Glyphosate still doesn't cause cancer

Dr Andrea Love, Immunologic, May 2024

Go home, ‘Save the Bees’ crowd — there was never a Beepocalypse

Colby Cosh, National Post, May 2024

CFIA Confirms Gene Edited Plants in Livestock Feed are Safe, Industry Applauds the Move

Seed World, May 2024

New Livestock Biotechnology Guidance Misses the Mark

Emma Kovak, The Breakthrough Institute, May 2024

University of Arkansas Releases Lifecycle Assessment Showing Pesticides Advance Sustainable Agriculture

University of Arkansas, April 2024

The West Needs to Come to Grips with African Fertilizer Needs

Vijaya Ramachandran, The Breakthrough Institute, April 2024

Gene genius: How gene technology is changing the future of food

Vincent Heeringa, New Zealand Herald, April 2024

Children could die because of Greenpeace’s Golden Rice activism

Mark Lynas, The Spectator, April 2024

Greenpeace Crusade Will Blind and Kill Children

Ronald Bailey, Reason, April 2024

How effective are policies in reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture?

Hannah Ritchie, Our World in Data, April 2024

Research priorities breed frustration, confusion

Robert Arnason, The Western Producer, April 2024

What does carcinogenic really mean?

Dr Andrea Love, Immunologic, April 2024

A Win for Common Sense and Science

Guillermo Breton, Global Farmer Network, April 2024

Turning plants blue with gene editing could make robot weeding easier

New Scientist, April 2024

Rejoice! You Are Living in the Golden Age of Fruit

Noah Rothman, National Review, April 2024

The glyphosate debate: Facts, risks and benefits

Jeff Miller, AgProud, April 2024

Bumblebees Don't Care about Pesticide Cocktails

University of Würzburg, April 2024

M&S invests £1m in tackling methane from burping and farting cows

The Guardian, April 2024

EU Continues Its Unscientific, Anti-Innovation Regulation Of Genetic Engineering

Henry Miller & Rob Wager, ACSH, April 2024

Why humanity is good for the natural world

Matt Ridley, Spiked, April 2024

Cut pesticide use, but how?

Pieter de Wolf, WUR, April 2024

What if global emissions went down instead of up?

Pilita Clark, Financial Times, April 2024

From novelty to necessity? The evolution of insect farming

Elaine Watson, AgFunder News, April 2024

An assessment of the linkages between GM crop biotechnology and climate change mitigation

Stuart J. Smyth et al, GM Crops and Food, April 2024

Feeding the world, whilst "sparing land"? Debating the rise of modern Brazilian agriculture

Adam Tooze, Chartbook, April 2024

China approves 81 GM seeds to boost maize & soybean as Indian biotech is blocked & crop yields languish

TCA Sharad Raghavan, The Print, April 2024

Can World Hunger Ever Be Eliminated? Not Using Europe Or The UN

Hank Campbell, Science 2.0, April 2024

Solar farms are taking us back to the dark ages

Matt Ridley, The Telegraph, April 2024

How misinformation is making us fear our food

Jessica Steier, The Hill, April 2024

Quantifying changes in the environmental impact of in-crop herbicide use in Saskatchewan, Canada

Stuart J. Smyth et al, Weed Technology, March 2024

The Farmers are Fighting this One Alone

David Zaruk, The Risk-Monger, March 2024

Organic foods are not healthier...or pesticide free.

Dr Andrea Love, Immunologic, March 2024

The Era Of Healthier Produce Thanks To Science Is Just Getting Started

Juergen Eckhardt, Forbes, March 2024

How technology is making flour production more sustainable and healthier

Andrew Tindall, British Baker, March 2024

Biotech Matters: Innovation in Agricultural Biotechnology

L. Val Giddings, CNAS, March 2024

The EU Continues Its Unscientific, Anti-Innovation Policymaking

Rob Wager & Henry Miller, European Scientist, March 2024

Synergizing biotechnology and natural farming: pioneering agricultural sustainability through innovative interventions

Anila Badiyal et al, Frontiers in Plant Science, March 2024

India needs a new maize revolution

The Hindu Business Line, March 2024

New research shows unintended harms of organic farming

AFP, March 2024

Perspective: Can organic and conventional farming coexist peacefully?

Tim Durham, AgDaily, March 2024

Plant-killing genetic technology could wipe out superweeds

Michael Le Page, New Scientist, March 2024

Twenty-eight years of GM Food and feed without harm: why not accept them?

Richard E. Goodman, National Library of Medicine, March 2024

The EU Commission strikes again – New patent ban?

Dr Ute Kilger, European Biotechnology, March 2024

Climate and food security concerns prompting new openness to technology in agriculture

Real Agriculture, March 2024

Nutrition and food production: Our greatest challenges for the next 30 years

European Scientist, March 2024

Consumer benefits from tech a key part of acceptance

Editorial, The Western Producer, March 2024

2023: An Activist Annus Horribilis

David Zaruk, Seed World Europe, March 2024

Costs of inappropriately regulating all seed innovations as GMOs are too high for South Africa

Lukeshni Chetty, Daily Maverick, March 2024

China develops higher yielding wheat

World Grain, February 2024

Salmon ova heavyweights urge Norway to allow gene editing

Fish Farming Expert, February 2024

Economic Sustainability vs. Environmental Sustainability

Stuart Smyth, SAIFood, February 2024

Why firms are racing to produce green ammonia

Chris Baraniuk, BBC News, February 2024

Scotland’s farmers are more likely to be left at the coos tail

Brian Henderson, The Scottish Farmer, February 2024

The Media And I: Enhancing The Soil To Improve Farming

Henry I. Miller, ACSH, February 2024

China’s embrace of GM crops will have global implications

Shaleen Khanal & Zhang Hongzhou, Think China, 22 February 2024

EU pesticide bans: what are the impacts and are they necessary?

Eve Thomas, Just Food, February 2024

Are farmers markets or supermarkets the low carbon food choice?

Mark Harris, Anthropocene, February 2024

Agricultural chemical use and the rural-urban divide in Canada

Stuart J Smyth & Sylvain Charlebois, GM Crops & Food, February 2024

Our Obsession with Zero

David Zaruk, The Firebreak, February 2024

The scientific case for land sparing is compelling

Daniel Pearsall, Farmers Weekly, February 2024

How science is helping farmers to find a balance between agriculture and solar farms

Magali Reinert, Nature, February 2024

PRRS virus-resistant nucleus herd ready for breeding upon regulatory approval

Ann Hess, National Hog Farmer, February 2024

MEPs sow seeds of change for gene-edited plant patentability: Will it bear bad fruit for the biotechnology industry?

Venner Shipley, February 2024

Five reasons why the anti-biotech movement is in retreat

Mark Lynas, Alliance for Science, February 2024

Norway Embraces GMO Canola Oil for Sustainable Salmon Farming

eFeedLink, February 2024

World first: disease resistant GM banana approved for consumption

Cosmos, February 2024

Regenerative Agriculture – Buzzword? Bust? Or the Future of Agriculture?

Judson Christopherson, SAIFood, February 2024

NGOs slam France’s plans to adopt EU method for measuring pesticides risk

Euractiv, February 2024

The future of farming: Exploring the realities of regenerative agricultural practices

Potato News Today, February 2024

The EPA does not require warning labels for Roundup—yet Bayer lost $10 billion for not having them

Center for Truth in Science, February 2024

Soil Survivor: Using Nanotech for Regenerative Agriculture

Amanda Jasi, The Chemical Engineer, February 2024

Taking a more modified approach

Alan Emerson, Wairarapa Times-Age, February 2024

EU proposal to regulate gene-edited plants raises concerns for biotech and plant breeders alike

Potter Clarkson, February 2024

BVDV-Resistant Calf Created Through Gene Editing

Bovine Vet Online, February 2024

The Buzz on ‘The Great Honey Bee Die-Off’

Michael Fumento, The American Spectator, February 2024

We Can’t Do it Without Patents

Marcel Bruins, Seed World Europe, February 2024

A Global Farmer Perspective on the Opportunity Offered With New Plant Breeding Technology