Top news of the week: 11.02.2021.
Food And Agriculture
GMO ‘scarecrow’: What’s keeping Africa from embracing genetically engineered crops?
The advent of climate change, coupled with new plant pests and diseases, has worsened the plight of Ghanaian farmers, relegating them to remain in poverty
Viewpoint: Pesticides can be harmful—but they’re also ‘vital to human health and global food security’
As much as pesticides are a threat to certain ecosystems, they’re also responsible for providing the planet with food in abundance.
Saving Africa’s agroecological food baskets from the agroecology movement
As agroecology activism increases within the global food system, many African communities involved in agriculture and food production, as well as consumers, are getting confused. This ...
Hoxton Farms Raises £2.7M Seed to Solve a Fat Problem for Meat Alternatives
The startup grows real animal fat – without the animals. Cultivated fat is a delicious, sustainable and versatile ingredient that has none of the drawbacks of plant oils currently used in ...
This biotech startup aims to reduce farmers’ losses by making crops more climate-resilient
Founded in 2016, Bioprime Agrisolutions startup is making crops more climate resilient by developing next-generation biologicals.
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OPINION: Don’t Stop at Big Tech—We Need to Bust Big Agriculture, Too
Amid Congressional investigation and federal, state and private antitrust cases, all eyes are on Big Tech. The step up in antitrust enforcement against the digital technology behemoths and ...
GMOs: Scarecrow and the irony of a farmer’s hoe
The advent of climate change, coupled with new plant pests and diseases, has worsened the plight of Ghanaian farmers, relegating them to remain in poverty as their crop yields and incomes ...