Top news of the week: 08.01.2023.
World food prices hit record high in 2022
A surge in the cost of most food commodities last year, as the disruption caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine raised concerns of shortages, sent the U.N. food agency's average price ...
Drug Manufacture Has One Huge Flaw. This Synthetic Biology Startup Just Raised $200m To Fix It.
What’s the holy grail of biology? This startup says it’s engineerable cells, and with $200million of new funding for their CAD platform to program genetic circuits, the manufacture of ...
“As Gods” is a valuable primer on a controversial science
Matthew Cobb illuminates the moral issues raised by genetic engineering
‘THEIR ATTITUDE HAS BEEN TO SPREAD CONFUSION AND FEAR’
On October 18, 2022, the government approved the release of genetically modified (GM) mustard hybrid, Dhara Mustard Hybrid (DMH-11) for seed production and also the release of its GM ...
Safety Sells: For-profit investing into civilizational resilience.
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Vertical farm fail, a unique agtech SPAC: AFN’s best read of 2022
Vertical farm failure, a SPAC from the father of agtech, GM controversy, indoor farmed wheat, and funding for one of regenerative agriculture's leaders.
reboot food?
What’s the single biggest cause of the 6th mass extinction? Imagine rewilding 3/4s of today’s farmland. Imagine eating guilt-free meat, milk and cheese without ever having killed …
Going Beyond Regenerative Agriculture on Tribal Lands
Regenerative agriculture helps build just food economies, protecting Indigenous ways of knowing despite outside pressure to conform to globalized agricultural practices.