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Annual Report 2020
This year, The Essentials Report, has curated & analyzed the content published by 168 influencers like Stuart Smyth and Nature Plants, discussing hashtags such as #FoodSecurity , #Biotech and #coronavirus.
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Fighting malnutrition: Golden Rice and the EU’s GMO conundrum
In the last two decades, the cultivation of genetically biofortified crops, such as Golden Rice, to help solve the global humanitarian crisis of “malnutrition” remains elusive. Let’s ...
In effort to develop coronavirus vaccine, outbreak expert sees ‘hardest problem’ of his career
STAT talked to CEPI's CEO about the partnership's strategy for helping the world develop a vaccine for the masses in the midst of an emergency.
Making Dairy an All or Nothing Battle
Dairy is one of those hot button subjects that attracts controversy and ignites passions. Starbucks has waded into the subject with a sustainability pitch.
New report outlines potential yield challenges to scale-up of zero budget natural farming in India
A new report published in Nature Sustainability this week examines the potential impacts on food production of zero budget natural farming, a farming system that is sweeping India.
Burkina Faso holds a regional workshop for Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) target-setting
This political momentum includes the recent national commitment to voluntary targets to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) by 2030. Since the international community embraced the ...
Salvation or Pipe Dream? A Movement Grows to Protect Up to Half the Planet
Leading scientists and conservationists are proposing that up to 50 percent of the earth’s land and oceans be protected in the coming decades. While some view the goal as unrealistic, ...
39 biotech experts’ open letter protests anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva’s ‘anti-science’ talks at Stanford and UC Santa Cruz
An activist who compares GMOs to rape and fertilizers to war should not be given a platform.
Seven Mega Trends for Farming & Food in 2020 .. the next decade.
Just days into the next decade an industry that has frequently seemed under the radar, the business of food promises to be a major topic of conversation at many tables in 2020. From Davos ...
Viewpoint: Fact-checking anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva’s ‘Poison-Free, Fossil-Free’ food lecture
The event was a missed opportunity to have the more nuanced discussion that such an important topic deserves.
Poison-free, fossil-free California agriculture (1 of 3)
This is part 1 of a 1, 2, 3 part BLOG series on this January 2020 two-day event featuring Dr. Vandana Shiva at UC Santa Cruz In late January, 2020 I attended two events at UC Santa Cruz, a ...
Genetically Engineered Crops: A Necessity for Food Security
The acceptance of genetically engineered food is a divisive topic that is deeply embedded in the ongoing debate around climate change, sustainability and food security. Despite studies ...
Agricultural innovation key to food security
Photo: Farmer Milon Mia discusses the benefits of growing genetically modified Bt brinjal. In a bid to expand awareness about the role of agricultural innovations in achieving food ...
GMO sustainability advantage? Glyphosate spurs no-till farming, preserving soil carbon
Skeptics of GMOs decry the growing practice of no-till farming and its connection to herbicide-tolerant crops. Yet, agronomists say good stewardship of glyphosate on crops gives farmers ...
First-of-Its-Kind Hydrogel Platform Enables On-Demand Production of Medicines and Chemicals
A team of chemical engineers has developed a new way to produce medicines and chemicals on demand and preserve them using portable “biofactories” embedded
Global heating a serious threat to the world's climate refuges, study finds
Biodiversity hotspots with millions of years of climate stability could be among the world’s hardest hit regions
