Top news of the week: 22.06.2021.
Food And Agriculture
Colombian university develops next-generation oil-producing transgenic crops
In products as common as wine, beer, cotton, flowers and others from the food sector such as soybeans and corn, but also in pharmaceutical generation
The “GMO-LMO” antiscientific meme and the detrimental Biosafety Protocol
– Abstract According to a long-time and widespread scientific consensus, agri-food biotechnology regulation should focus on the risks and benefits of each agricultural product, without any ...
Viewpoint: Seeds of science denialism in Latin America — The most influential anti-crop biotech groups trace their disinformation network to North America and Europe
arlier in this series on anti-GMO activism in Latin America, we talked about some of the most influential and active NGO activist groups in Latin America
Covid-19 vaccines have weakened the anti-GMO movement
‘Genetic modification has much to offer as everyone who offers their arm to the vaccination needle can confirm’
Farmers warn Mexico’s GM corn ban will raise food prices
Mexico’s farmer associations are teaming up and pushing back through legal battles in opposition to a presidential decree to ban genetically modified (GM)
Addressing the post-COVID era through engineering biology
Currently, the world is faced with two fundamental issues of great importance, namely climate change and the coronavirus pandemic. These are intimately involved with the need to control ...
Long wary of consumer backlash against GMO crops, China is quickly, but quietly, embracing agricultural biotechnology to meet rising food demands and decrease foreign influence
China has long developed higher-yielding varieties of rice and corn through crossbreeding. Nowadays, genetically modified organisms have become
East Africa’s banana farmers welcome new varieties that resist disease and drought
Plant breeders in Uganda and Tanzania have developed drought-tolerant and disease-resistant banana hybrids that are intended to support the commercialization of East Africa’s banana sector. ...