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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.
Dramatic solutions to Africa’s farming woes
The Alliance for Science met with a representative of FANRPAN to hear about their innovative program that uses theater performances to empower female farmers.
VIRCA Plus relies on community values to develop disease-resistant GMO cassava
The VIRCA Plus project is bringing together scientists, policy-makers and farmers to develop disease-resistant varieties of cassava in Africa.
Uganda biotech law opens door to disease-resistant GMO crops
Genetically engineered crops that promise to benefit both farmers and consumers are poised to enter Uganda’s marketplace now that its Parliament has adopted a law to regulate agricultural biotechnology.
Course offers global farming skills to succeed
Hailing from Zimbabwe to Uruguay — and more than a dozen points in between — some 40 agricultural advocates gathered Sept. 18-23 in the first Alliance for Science training session developed solely for farmers.