News RSS News RSS Feed <![CDATA[Can agriculture change fast enough?]]> If old-style agriculture was a football team, it would be happiest to run and never pass. Now, it’s too late in the game and there’s no choice left.]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[BASF's Amflora is just the first step]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Antarctic hair grass teaches Aussie wheat a lesson]]> Only two plants grow wild in Antarctica. Not surprisingly, they’ve learned a lot about frost tolerance, and it’s something Australia’s wheat industry thinks that it can learn too.]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Aussie anti-GM canola moratorium weakens]]> Australia’s muddled GM canola rules are ‘an embarrassment,” according to the country’s leading pro-biotechnology spokesman. Soon, he predicts, the ban will collapse.]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[It's healthy, but would you buy it?]]> Only if it’s on the store shelf, says Dave Dzisiak. Which is a problem because big food companies react to trends, they don’t try to start them.]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[First came computers, now India eyes biotech]]> With a projected population of 1.4 billion by 2020, India knows a thing or two about big numbers.

]]> Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Biotech wheat stays on the shelf]]> Until farmers change their minds, that's how it's likely to stay. 

]]> Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Biotech meets the future, and likes what it sees]]> In all of human history, nothing like it has ever happened. In fact, nothing even close to it has happened.

]]> Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Wall Street buys ag biotech]]> Six multinational companies have powered ag biotech through its first decade

]]> Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Pick up that gauntlet]]> Golden rice makes GreenPeace co-founder Patrick Moore see red, not because the rice gets him stirred up, but because the people who should be backing it don't.

]]> Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[If you want to save your biotech access]]> At the same time that the world's biotech scientists and regulators were deep in Monday's ABIC 2007 conference in Calgary, Canada's media had been invited to a press conference in the same building

]]> Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Without biotech, can farmers feed the world?]]> In the next 50 years, the world's farmers must produce more food than farmers have grown in the entire 10,000 years since agriculture was invented.

]]> Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Worlds meet at ABIC 2007 in Calgary]]> Of all the globe’s farmers who plant biotech seeds, three-quarters live in the developing world. Yet none live in Africa...]]> Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Good news from American consumers]]> Despite a year of food scares and non-stop headlines about E. coli in fresh produce, American consumers aren’t re-thinking their acceptance of food with biotech ingredients

]]> Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Risking a lesson for the scientifically illiterate]]> Joe Schwarcz isn't kind to so-called experts who get their science all wrong...

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