Top news of the week: 03.03.2020.
Biotechnology, Genetically modified food, Food and Agriculture Organization, Germ cell, Agriculture, English language
Food And Agriculture
RT @ScienceAlly: Climate change has brought a new reality to farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa: “Things have changed. The soils are less fertile. There is drought. There is more disease." https://t.co/WwqByILD1F
OpenAfrican farmers want GMO seeds to help weather climate change
It’s an old proverb in these lands that since man has learned to shoot without missing, birds have learned to fly without perching — and the same is true with farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa ...
Are most GMO safety studies funded by industry?
The assertion that biotech companies do the research and the government just signs off on it is false.
RT @mattwridley: Britain has lost out from the EU's unscientific approach to agriculture for long enough https://t.co/2LVjjlZXg8
OpenBritain has lost out from the EU's unscientific approach to agriculture for long enough
There are few sections of science and technology where progress has stalled since the late 1990s.
RT @ScienceAlly: "The anti-GMO news and campaign across the globe make me wonder whether improved crop varieties would ever reach small stakeholder farmers like my mother." https://t.co/bHFXy4SskA
OpenI fight anti-GMO fears in Africa to combat hunger
As a child, I remember feeling hungry most of the time. Growing up in rural Tanzania, I walked to school barefoot and most of the time had one meal a day. After school, I helped my mother ...
RT @AgBioWorld: EU needs to take politics out of the GM approval process: if the EFSA GMO panel finds a GM crop variety to be safe that should be the end of the process, should be able to move to commercialisation, including for cultivation, without further hindrance. https://t.co/0vHDboYqpz
OpenThe future of GMOs, gene editing and plant biotechnology in post-Brexit UK
We spoke with Nigel Halford, Principal Research Scientist at Rothamsted Research, UK. This means that, currently, organisms made using mutagenesis techniques developed after 2001, …
If you care about the environment, it’s probably time to take a closer look at GMOs. Get the facts on the environmental benefits of genetically modified crops. https://t.co/vEWoYNBRWb https://t.co/PRShCoXiHL
OpenWhat Impact do GMOs Have on the Environment?
You might have heard people talking about the negative effects of GMOs on the environment – and claim that GMOs harm the environment – but is this true? And how do GMOs actually affect the ...
RT @mattwridley: Why genome editing represents a huge opportunity for British agriculture, raising environmental standards in a way that was impossible under the EU's regime.
https://t.co/b2mYSQDJqG
OpenThe Brexit boost for British bio-science
In physics and chemistry, or painting and music, we have often failed to match the Germans, French or the Italians. But in the bio-sciences, nobody can equal us
RT @GlobalPlantGPC: An economist’s perspective on plant sciences: Under-appreciated, over-regulated and under-funded https://t.co/2YegBpVDiY by David Zilberman @UCRiverside #plantscience #agriculture https://t.co/I13mY4SCod
OpenAn economist’s perspective on plant sciences: Under-appreciated, over-regulated and under-funded
Modified crops such as Golden Rice could have major benefits for people in developing nations. Image credit: IRRI Licensed under CC BY 2.0 By David Zilberman, Professor and Robinson Chair, ...