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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.

The misuse of pesticides and other products has created contamination problems in Ghana's food supply.

The Alliance for Science met with a representative of FANRPAN to hear about their innovative program that uses theater performances to empower female farmers.

The VIRCA Plus project is bringing together scientists, policy-makers and farmers to develop disease-resistant varieties of cassava in Africa.

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.