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Dr. Priver Namanya adjusted her view in the microscope, trying to get a better image of the banana cells. Then a smile lit her face. After spending the day trying to ascertain that she had incorporated a vitamin A gene into the banana cells, she had achieved success. Namanya, a…

Philanthropist Bill Gates today strongly endorsed new gene editing techniques such as CRISPR, saying they could help humanity overcome some of its “biggest and most persistent challenges” in global health and agriculture over the next decade. “Eliminating the most persistent diseases and causes of poverty will require scientific discovery and…

Organic agriculture is not as good for the environment as commonly believed, according to a new scientific study reviewing multiple lines of evidence over more than two decades. The study, conducted by German researchers Eva-Marie Meemken and Matin Qaim from the University of Goettingen and published in the journal…

More than two dozen anti-GMO groups are meeting in the Philippines in a last-ditch attempt to stop the deployment of Golden Rice, long proposed as a way to combat potentially life-threatening vitamin A deficiency among young children in developing Asian nations, such as Bangladesh, the Philippines and Indonesia. Gathering for…

Ghana’s cocoa farmers are being thrust into poverty as large commercial rubber plantations expand into major cocoa producing regions. As Ghana’s primary agricultural export commodity and main cash crop, cocoa has been a major contributor to the country’s socioeconomic development for several decades. It employs about 2 million Ghanaians on…

Five years after he publicly apologized for his anti-GMO activism, Mark Lynas offers a proposal for a peaceful resolution to the contentious fight over genetic engineering.

South African farmer Tepsy Ntseoane wants other female farmers in her country to turn to biotechnology for increased yields.

The anti-vaccine and anti-GMO movements — driven by similar conspiracist fears about big corporations, ideological preference for "natural" alternatives and opposition to modern science generally — are increasingly overlapping.

It's an injustice for activists from wealthy western countries to deny farmers in the developing world access to modern technology and the freedom to make their own choices.