Top news of the week: 12.10.2021.
Food And Agriculture
Viewpoint: Cornell prof Anthony Shelton’s personal account of the sustainability and economic success of GMO eggplants in Bangladesh
I had the opportunity to work on a project that helped transform the lives of resource-poor farmers in Bangladesh and improved the environment in which
Video: Are GMOs sustainable? Can organic feed the world? One size doesn’t fit all
The debate about GMO safety and sustainability is ongoing, but one fact remains: food security is paramount. Does the absence of agricultural biotechnology
‘Prejudiced, anti-science, anti-social stances’: Letter denounces University of Missouri lecture series speech invitation to anti-biotechnology activist-philosopher Vandana Shiva
Dear Chancellor, We are scholars of life sciences and social sciences who have published many scholarly papers and articles about agriculture, food and
Viewpoint: Part 2 — Which developing countries are taking the lead in crop biotechnology innovation?
They include South Africa (cotton, corn and soybeans), Nigeria (cotton and cowpeas), Eswatini – formerly Swaziland – (cotton), Sudan (cotton), Malawi (cotton) and Ethiopia …
The liability of inviting disinformation to academia
The University of Missouri Kansas City is welcoming the poisonous message of conspiracy, division and bad science of activist Dr. Vandana Shiva.
Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh says, India will be within the top 5 countries Globally and be recognized as a Global Bio-manufacturing Hub by 2025
Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Ch
ASA Submits Comments to EPA Supporting Difenoconazole, Isoxaflutole, and Oxyfluorfen
Two recent documents address cyber threats specific to agriculture and are available to ASA members upon request: Cyber Criminal Actors Targeting the Food and Agriculture Sector …
Methodology to assess the changing risk of yield failure due to heat and drought stress under climate change
Here we present the relative distribution as a method to assess how the risk of yield failure due to heat and drought stress (measured in terms of return period between yields …