Top news of the week: 18.01.2022.
Food And Agriculture
Modi govt’s ‘indecisiveness’ on GM crops slowed down research advancement, US agri dept criticises
Report released by Global Agricultural Information Network of USDA cites 'existing policy environment' as a reason for uncertainty in agricultural biotech R&D in India.
$10M project aims for more pest-resilient food options in Asia
A new Cornell-led project will accelerate the application of a proven biotechnology to enhance food and nutritional security in Bangladesh and the Philippines while protecting the health of ...
GM crops: Upending the agroecology rhetoric
According to a recent critique published in Scientific American magazine, “GM crops are rooted in a colonial-capitalist model of agriculture based on theft of Indigenous land and on ...
GMOs Help Us Promote Food Security Worldwide and Fight Global Food Insecurity
*/ /*-->*/ Every day, farmers around the world use GMOs to help combat threats to food and the environment. Whether helping to protect crop yields against plant diseases, weeds, pests, or ...
Center for Food Safety: Legal swat team of the anti-GMO and anti-pesticide movements
Andrew Kimbrell has turned the Center for Food Safety--no, not the FDA's CFS, but an advocacy group--into the legal arm representing organic and natural product groups targeting ...
Senate Agriculture Committee Advances Chavonda Jacobs-Young
Following Monday’s oral arguments in litigation regarding the registration of glyphosate, groups representing agricultural growers, retailers, landscaping, and golf course …
Ginkgo Bioworks Provides Preliminary Unaudited 2021 Revenue Highlights and Business Review
/PRNewswire/ -- Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA), the leading horizontal platform for cell programming, announced today preliminary performance updates for the year...
40 Social Entrepreneurs to Watch for in 2022
Of course these are not all the amazing people around the world doing spectacular things. These particular social entrepreneurs to watch for in 2022