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must reads - archive (Feb-Nov '24)
February 2024
Dairy industry diligence rewarded for emission control efforts
Poultry World, November 2024
Potential for US agriculture to be greenhouse gas negative
Hatfield J., Rice C. & Matlock M., Agri-Pulse, November 2024
The non-appliance of science: Why GM crops aren’t feeding Africa
The Economist, November 2024
Combining AI and Crispr will be transformational
Jennifer Doudna, Wired, November 2024
How genetics has changed the science of animal breeding
Dr Maeve Williams, Teagasc, November 2024
From lab to land: Crop modifications are fortifying our food supply against climate change
Marissa Locke Rottinghaus, ASBMB Today, November 2024
Corteva announces breakthrough in hybrid wheat technology
Real Agriculture, November 2024
Climate-smart agriculture to address climate change
Wei Xinyu, China Daily, November 2024
Perspective: RFK Jr. poses a danger to American agriculture
Amanda Zaluckyj, Ag Daily, November 2024
Why agri-tech and nature have a place on the farm of the future
Louise Impey, Farmers Weekly, November 2024
It is time to review the EU’s outdated rules on GMOs
European Scientist, November 2024
Scotland’s crop centre opens amid gene row
Brian Henderson, The Scottish Farmer, November 2024
Golden rice could save hundreds of thousands of lives every year
William Reville, Irish Times, November 2024
Nigeria, is the Giant of Africa yet food insecure: Can Agri-Biotech be the Game Changer?
African Agricultural Technology Foundation, November 2024
Countries Approving GM Crop Cultivation
K. Tome, C. Dionglay, and J. Escasura, ISAAA, November 2024
How a breakthrough gene-editing tool will help the world cope with climate change
MIT Technology Review, November 2024
The genetic revolution can support food security, tackle the climate crisis and protect biodiversity
UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), October 2024
Why do people selectively reject science?
Dr Andrea Love, Immunologic, October 2024
AATF Advocates Self-Sufficiency With Adoption of Water-Efficient Maize
Business Post Nigeria, October 2024
Adoption of climate smart seeds key to boosting Kenya’s food security
Joseph Ng’ang’a, Kenya News Agency, October 2024
How industries are leveraging industrial intelligence to achieve more with less
Caspar Herzberg, World Economic Forum, October 2024
Gene Editing and EU Regulations – a patent attorney’s perspective
Andrea Williams, Agri-techE, October 2024
The Organic vs. Conventional Farming Debate is Getting Tired. South America is Forging a Third Way
Jon Entine, Real Clear Science, October 2024
GMOs: Who Do You Believe; Scientists Or Activists?
Dr Rose Gidado, Science Nigeria, October 2024
Genome Editing: A Promising Path Toward More Sustainable Agriculture
Syngenta Vegetable Seeds Global, October 2024
Enhancing the Tool Box for Crop Breeding Innovation
Steven Savage, Forbes, October 2024
Paraquat, ploughs and perils: The future of global grain
Trevor Whittington, ARR News, October 2024
Scientists explore how indoor vertical farming could help future-proof food demand
Phys.org, September 2024
Hunger-ending seed technology is on the horizon – but will it reach the farmers who need it most?
Michael Keller, World Economic Forum, September 2024
‘Short corn’ could replace the towering cornfields steamrolled by a changing climate
The Independent, September 2024
Regenerative agriculture is sold as a climate solution. Can it do all it says?
Julia Simon, NPR, September 2024
Ag has always been a tech industry
Trey Malone, Talk Business & Politics, September 2024
Vandals Destroyed Italy’s First Gene-Edited Crop, But There’s Good News
Juergen Eckhardt, Forbes, September 2024
Research for climate-resilient milch cattle takes a vast step forward
Business Standard, September 2024
Creative Destruction in the Plant Breeding Sector
Marcel Bruins, Seed World Europe, September 2024
Some home truths about gene technologies
Revel Drummond, The Spin Off, September 2024
Joe Hinchliffe, The Guardian, September 2024
‘Depoliticise biotechnology research,’ urge African experts
Gilbert Nakweya, University World News, September 2024
Henry I. Miller, ACSH, September 2024
The Farm Babe – The Top Seven Food Label Myths: What You Need to Know
Michelle Miller, Ag Air Update, September 2024
Innovation: Moving the Seed Sector Forward
Marcel Bruins, Seed World, August 2024
Crops that fertilize themselves
Seed World, August 2024
100-Year-Old Wheat Could Help Feed the World
Discover Magazine, August 2024
Britain is heading towards potato armageddon – unless science can save us
Richard Godwin, The Telegraph, August 2024
Our gene technology blinkers are off at last
Alan Emerson, Farmers Weekly (NZ), August 2024
Organic Farming Activism Threatens Millions—and the Environment
Zion Lights, Human Progress, August 2024
New genomic techniques can contribute to reduced pesticide usage in Europe
Sundstrom J. et al, Plants People Planet, August 2024
It’s time to put the ‘taking sides’ GM debates of the 90s behind us
Michael Bunce, The Spin Off, August 2024
Scientists develop corn with built-in nitrogen sensor
Farm Progress, August 2024
British firms strive to create a buzz around insect farming
The Guardian, August 2024
US farming is getting greener, but focused on high production
Irish Farmers Journal, August 2024
Are Pesticides the Primary Cause of Species Decline in North America?
Richard A. Brain, Illinois Corn Growers Assn, August 2024
Precision breeding in agriculture and food systems in the United Kingdom
Oli Watson & Sadiye Hayta, Transgenic Research, August 2024
Nigeria's GMOs debate: Between ignorance and misinformation
Collins Nnabuife, Nigerian Tribune, August 2024
When Greenpeace wins, we all lose: The cynical war on genetically engineered crops grinds on
Kathleen L. Hefferon & Henry I. Miller, GLP, August 2024
Regenerative farming is the future direction
James Porter, The Scottish Farmer, August 2024
Dan Blaustein-Rejto, The Breakthrough Institute, August 2024
The future of paper could come from gene edited trees
The Washington Post, August 2024
Shortage of plant breeders could lead to dire implications for global food security
Clement Dionglay, ISAAA, July 2024
It's time for retailers to embrace gene-edited foods
Oliver Morrison, The Grocer, July 2024
European Glyphosate Constituents Aren't From Agriculture, They're From Laundry Detergent
Hank Campbell, Science 2.0, July 2024
Ghana releases first biotech crop: the Pod Borer Resistant Cowpea
Environews Nigeria, July 2024
Waging War on Modern Agriculture and Global Nutrition
Paul Driessen, Town Hall, July 2024
Not so good after all? People who eat more organic food have more toxins in their blood
Brussels Times, July 2024
History of misery when farmers are forced to go organic
Jack DeWitt, July 2024
Let’s look at the facts on pesticides
Ieuan Evans, Grainews, July 2024
“Our food security relies on Europe’s farmers: we must give them our support”
The Parliament Magazine, July 2024
The food crisis is one of our own making
Ben Payton, Agri-Investor, July 2024
What is the bioeconomy and how can it drive sustainable development?
Stefanie Ólives, World Economic Forum, July 2024
Caleb Hoversten, Daily Camera, July 2024
Climate change is pushing up food prices – and worrying central banks
Financial Times, July 2024
Can Gene Editing Help Tackle Global Issues?
Wired, July 2024
How a proposed herbicide ban would actually result in greater environmental harm
Karun Samran, The Fresno Bee, July 2024
Cécile Dumais-Louys, Seed World, July 2024
Farmers Want Gene-editing Technology
Cherilyn Jolly Nagel, Global Farmer Network, June 2024
Save the Whales, Blind the Children
Mark Crislip, Science-Based Medicine, June 2024
The Developing World (Still) Needs Golden Rice
Michael Fumento, The American Spectator, June 2024
Insider knowledge: How some exploit organic labels for profit
Amanda Zaluckyj, Ag Daily, June 2024
Why Eating Organic Isn’t a Climate Solution
Seth Millstein, Sentient Media, June 2024
Boosted Breeding and beyond: 3 tech trends that could end world hunger
Kristin Houser, Freethink, June 2024
Nature Knows Best? Naturalness in the Ultra-Processed Foods Debate
Hester van Hensbergen, Table Debates, June 2024
Let’s have crop regulation but don’t block science
Jack Kennedy, Irish Farmers Journal, June 2024
Opinion: Barriers continue to fall for genetically modified wheat production
Barb Glen, Bruce Dyck &b Karen Briere, Farmtario, June 2024
Food Security: FG launches high-yielding Tela maize varieties
Nigerian Tribune, June 2024
How do pesticides help agriculture? Here’s an explanation
Michelle Miller, AgDaily, June 2024
Mexico, Maize, and Food Sovereignty
L. Val Giddings, ITIF, June 2024
Q&A: The evolving debate about using genetically modified crops in a warming world
Orla Dwyer, Carbon Brief, June 2024
Greenpeace’s campaign against Golden Rice is a crime against humanity
Zion Lights, Spiked, June 2024
Editorial, Nature Biotechnology, June 2024
Gene editing in beef cattle: The possibilities could be endless
Mark Z. Johnson, Farm Progress, June 2024
Uruguay Advances Plant Breeding Innovation with Gene Editing Decree
Elena Mansur, Seed World, June 2024
GMOs aren’t changing your DNA or causing cancer
Dr Andrea Love, Immunologic, June 2024
Our favourite charities are becoming bloated and confused - they are losing their point
Paul Baldwin, Daily Express June 2024
Scientists are on a quest for drought-resistant wheat, agriculture's 'Holy Grail'
Amanda Stephenson, CBC, June 2024
We need some easy wins - liberalising GMOs could be one
Max Salmon, The Post, June 2024
What do we want from our farms: food or flowers?
Emma Duncan, The Times, May 2024
Susan Elizabeth Turek, The Cool Down, May 2024
Bogus ‘bee-mageddon’ is another fake environmental catastrophe scam creating buzz
John Stossel, New York Post, May 2024
Australian trial of gene-edited wheat aims for 10% bigger yields
Reuters, May 2024
GMOs and genetic engineering are wildly misunderstood
Dr Andrea Love, Immunologic, May 2024
Can the harsh conditions of space breed more resistant crops for Earth?
Diana Kruzman, Grist, May 2024
Argentina’s Bioceres makes world's first sales of genetically modified wheat seeds
Reuters, May 2024
Dr Luis Vaschetto, AzoLifeSciences, May 2024
Glyphosate still doesn't cause cancer
Dr Andrea Love, Immunologic, May 2024
Go home, ‘Save the Bees’ crowd — there was never a Beepocalypse
Colby Cosh, National Post, May 2024
CFIA Confirms Gene Edited Plants in Livestock Feed are Safe, Industry Applauds the Move
Seed World, May 2024
New Livestock Biotechnology Guidance Misses the Mark
Emma Kovak, The Breakthrough Institute, May 2024
University of Arkansas, April 2024
The West Needs to Come to Grips with African Fertilizer Needs
Vijaya Ramachandran, The Breakthrough Institute, April 2024
Gene genius: How gene technology is changing the future of food
Vincent Heeringa, New Zealand Herald, April 2024
Children could die because of Greenpeace’s Golden Rice activism
Mark Lynas, The Spectator, April 2024
Greenpeace Crusade Will Blind and Kill Children
Ronald Bailey, Reason, April 2024
How effective are policies in reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture?
Hannah Ritchie, Our World in Data, April 2024
Research priorities breed frustration, confusion
Robert Arnason, The Western Producer, April 2024
What does carcinogenic really mean?
Dr Andrea Love, Immunologic, April 2024
A Win for Common Sense and Science
Guillermo Breton, Global Farmer Network, April 2024
Turning plants blue with gene editing could make robot weeding easier
New Scientist, April 2024
Rejoice! You Are Living in the Golden Age of Fruit
Noah Rothman, National Review, April 2024
The glyphosate debate: Facts, risks and benefits
Jeff Miller, AgProud, April 2024
Bumblebees Don't Care about Pesticide Cocktails
University of Würzburg, April 2024
M&S invests £1m in tackling methane from burping and farting cows
The Guardian, April 2024
EU Continues Its Unscientific, Anti-Innovation Regulation Of Genetic Engineering
Henry Miller & Rob Wager, ACSH, April 2024
Why humanity is good for the natural world
Matt Ridley, Spiked, April 2024
Pieter de Wolf, WUR, April 2024
What if global emissions went down instead of up?
Pilita Clark, Financial Times, April 2024
From novelty to necessity? The evolution of insect farming
Elaine Watson, AgFunder News, April 2024
An assessment of the linkages between GM crop biotechnology and climate change mitigation
Stuart J. Smyth et al, GM Crops and Food, April 2024
Feeding the world, whilst "sparing land"? Debating the rise of modern Brazilian agriculture
Adam Tooze, Chartbook, April 2024
TCA Sharad Raghavan, The Print, April 2024
Can World Hunger Ever Be Eliminated? Not Using Europe Or The UN
Hank Campbell, Science 2.0, April 2024
Solar farms are taking us back to the dark ages
Matt Ridley, The Telegraph, April 2024
How misinformation is making us fear our food
Jessica Steier, The Hill, April 2024
Quantifying changes in the environmental impact of in-crop herbicide use in Saskatchewan, Canada
Stuart J. Smyth et al, Weed Technology, March 2024
The Farmers are Fighting this One Alone
David Zaruk, The Risk-Monger, March 2024
Organic foods are not healthier...or pesticide free.
Dr Andrea Love, Immunologic, March 2024
The Era Of Healthier Produce Thanks To Science Is Just Getting Started
Juergen Eckhardt, Forbes, March 2024
How technology is making flour production more sustainable and healthier
Andrew Tindall, British Baker, March 2024
Biotech Matters: Innovation in Agricultural Biotechnology
L. Val Giddings, CNAS, March 2024
The EU Continues Its Unscientific, Anti-Innovation Policymaking
Rob Wager & Henry Miller, European Scientist, March 2024
Anila Badiyal et al, Frontiers in Plant Science, March 2024
India needs a new maize revolution
The Hindu Business Line, March 2024
New research shows unintended harms of organic farming
AFP, March 2024
Perspective: Can organic and conventional farming coexist peacefully?
Tim Durham, AgDaily, March 2024
Plant-killing genetic technology could wipe out superweeds
Michael Le Page, New Scientist, March 2024
Twenty-eight years of GM Food and feed without harm: why not accept them?
Richard E. Goodman, National Library of Medicine, March 2024
The EU Commission strikes again – New patent ban?
Dr Ute Kilger, European Biotechnology, March 2024
Climate and food security concerns prompting new openness to technology in agriculture
Real Agriculture, March 2024
Nutrition and food production: Our greatest challenges for the next 30 years
European Scientist, March 2024
Consumer benefits from tech a key part of acceptance
Editorial, The Western Producer, March 2024
2023: An Activist Annus Horribilis
David Zaruk, Seed World Europe, March 2024
Costs of inappropriately regulating all seed innovations as GMOs are too high for South Africa
Lukeshni Chetty, Daily Maverick, March 2024
China develops higher yielding wheat
World Grain, February 2024
Salmon ova heavyweights urge Norway to allow gene editing
Fish Farming Expert, February 2024
Economic Sustainability vs. Environmental Sustainability
Stuart Smyth, SAIFood, February 2024
Why firms are racing to produce green ammonia
Chris Baraniuk, BBC News, February 2024
Scotland’s farmers are more likely to be left at the coos tail
Brian Henderson, The Scottish Farmer, February 2024
The Media And I: Enhancing The Soil To Improve Farming
Henry I. Miller, ACSH, February 2024
China’s embrace of GM crops will have global implications
Shaleen Khanal & Zhang Hongzhou, Think China, 22 February 2024
EU pesticide bans: what are the impacts and are they necessary?
Eve Thomas, Just Food, February 2024
Are farmers markets or supermarkets the low carbon food choice?
Mark Harris, Anthropocene, February 2024
Agricultural chemical use and the rural-urban divide in Canada
Stuart J Smyth & Sylvain Charlebois, GM Crops & Food, February 2024
David Zaruk, The Firebreak, February 2024
The scientific case for land sparing is compelling
Daniel Pearsall, Farmers Weekly, February 2024
How science is helping farmers to find a balance between agriculture and solar farms
Magali Reinert, Nature, February 2024
PRRS virus-resistant nucleus herd ready for breeding upon regulatory approval
Ann Hess, National Hog Farmer, February 2024
Venner Shipley, February 2024
Five reasons why the anti-biotech movement is in retreat
Mark Lynas, Alliance for Science, February 2024
Norway Embraces GMO Canola Oil for Sustainable Salmon Farming
eFeedLink, February 2024
World first: disease resistant GM banana approved for consumption
Cosmos, February 2024
Regenerative Agriculture – Buzzword? Bust? Or the Future of Agriculture?
Judson Christopherson, SAIFood, February 2024
NGOs slam France’s plans to adopt EU method for measuring pesticides risk
Euractiv, February 2024
The future of farming: Exploring the realities of regenerative agricultural practices
Potato News Today, February 2024
The EPA does not require warning labels for Roundup—yet Bayer lost $10 billion for not having them
Center for Truth in Science, February 2024
Soil Survivor: Using Nanotech for Regenerative Agriculture
Amanda Jasi, The Chemical Engineer, February 2024
Taking a more modified approach
Alan Emerson, Wairarapa Times-Age, February 2024
EU proposal to regulate gene-edited plants raises concerns for biotech and plant breeders alike
Potter Clarkson, February 2024
BVDV-Resistant Calf Created Through Gene Editing
Bovine Vet Online, February 2024
The Buzz on ‘The Great Honey Bee Die-Off’
Michael Fumento, The American Spectator, February 2024
We Can’t Do it Without Patents
Marcel Bruins, Seed World Europe, February 2024
A Global Farmer Perspective on the Opportunity Offered With New Plant Breeding Technology
Diana Lenzi, Global Farmer Network, February 2024
How Indian Farmers Are Using AI To Increase Crop Yield
Janakiram MSV, Forbes, February 2024