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Anti-GMO activists convene to target Golden Rice
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…
Rubber plantations are displacing Ghana’s small cocoa farms
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…
A peace plan for resolving GMO conflict
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 offers ‘living testimony’ to safety of biotech
South African farmer Tepsy Ntseoane wants other female farmers in her country to turn to biotechnology for increased yields.
Are the anti-GMO and anti-vaccine movements merging?
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.
Giving farmers the freedom to make choices
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.
Poison on the menu: Ghana’s food contamination crisis
The misuse of pesticides and other products has created contamination problems in Ghana's food supply.