Going up: food prices set to soar by Richard Webb. The Sunday Age, Melbourne. April 3, 2011 "Higher world prices for commodities such as wheat and sugar will place pressure on related food prices", says the Reserve Bank of Australia. With global…
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Patrick Moore – Rex Weyler Exchange about Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist Rex Weyler announces to Patrick Moore that he is about to come out publicly with a critique of Patrick’s new book, Confessions…
A Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in a Phytoene Synthase Gene can Simplify Provitamin A Biofortification of CassavaRalf WelschISB NEWS REPORT MARCH 2011The need for biofortification of staple cropsMillions of poor people rely on staples to meet their daily calorie requirements. The…
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The global food crunchBy Robert J. Samuelson, Washington PostMonday, March 14, 2011Here's a question about the Mideast turmoil for future historians: How much did food inflation contribute? We know some basic facts. Middle East countries import 50 percent or more…
The Future of Food and Farming: Challenges and choices for global sustainabilityUK Government Office for Science 2011Executive SummaryFrom the IntroductionProject aim: to explore the pressures on the global food system between now and 2050 and identify the decisions that policy makers…
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Review article The role of transgenic crops in sustainable development Julian Raymond Park, Ian McFarlane, Richard Hartley Phipps and Graziano Ceddia School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AR, UK Summary The concept of sustainable development…
Farming the Future: GM Crops Recommended as Key Part of Obama's "Evergreen RevolutionScientific American postingA former Agriculture Department chief scientist weighs in on President Obama's U.S-India plan, arguing that biotechnology is crucial to the growth of food productivity and security…
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Why Genetically Modified food is necessary to feed the planet by Jonathan Gray for The Toronto Globalist Norman Borlaug with spikes of wheat.Photo credit: CIMMYT. Saving the species. It’s the noblest goal any human can aspire to, and it is…
GMO Pundit participated in a session running in parallel with the conference of parties (COP) biodiversity discussions that occurred last week in Nagoya, Japan. He had an opportunity to frame some points to make to the delegates who are interested…
Economic Impacts of Policies Affecting Crop Biotechnology and Trade- Kym Anderson, New Biotechnology (in Press), full paper athttp://web.services.adelaide.edu.au/cies/publications/present/CIES_DP1012.pdfAgricultural biotechnologies, and especially transgenic crops, have the potential to boost food security in developing countries by offering higher incomes for farmers and…
