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Tag Archives: International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications
Roundup weedkiller and Roundup Ready crops
The world’s most popular weedkiller is called Roundup. It’s used in gardens, on farms and in public places. Many of the world’s most popular genetically modified (GM, genetically engineered) crops are called Roundup Ready. You can spray these crops with … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology, horticulture, knowledge transfer
Tagged Africa, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, America, Asia, bacterium, Bayer, biotechnology, crop, Europe, farm, garden, genetic modification, glyphosate, herbicide, herbicide resistance, history, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, Monsanto, patent, pesticide, pesticide resistance, plant_dicot, plant_gymnosperm, plant_monocot, Roundup, Roundup Ready crop, Syngenta, trade, weed
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Is the GM crops war over? What’s next?
GM (genetically modified, genetically engineered) crops are a fact of life by now. In our interconnected world (remember the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP, which might be finalised soon) I think that people who oppose GM crops may have … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, fish, food, horticulture, miniculture, money and trade
Tagged Africa, America, aquaculture, Asia, biodiversity, biotechnology, Bt crop, commodity crop, crop diversity, development, Dow, entomoculture, Europe, evolution, farmer, feed, finfish, fisher, foraging, genetic modification, hunting, insect, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, invertebrate, Monsanto, neglected crop, pesticide resistance, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, population, Roundup Ready crop, shellfish, soya, staple food, superbug, superweed, Swaminathan_Monkombu, trade, tradition, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, vertebrate, wild food
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GM oilseeds for Britain?
This year in Britain, we heard there’d be no GM (genetically modified, genetically engineered, biotech) crops. It didn’t last. A new GM crop might soon be field-tested here. Eventually this crop might reduce pressure on overfished seas. A land plant … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, fish, human health, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged Agrobacterium tumefaciens, algaculture, algae, aquaculture, Atlantic salmon, bioaccumulation, biotechnology, blue mussel, brassica, brown crab, brown trout, butternut squash, conservation, crop, false flax, fat, fatty acid, feed, finfish, fishery, fishing, flax, genetic modification, grocery, hemp, hunting, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, invertebrate, linseed, nut, nutrition, oilseed, oilseed Omega Camelina, oyster, pecan, plant_dicot, rainbow trout, research, sea, seed, skipjack tuna, sustainable, trade, value-added, vertebrate, wild food
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Agricultural biotech against poverty and hunger
Too many people are hungry. Many of the hungry people are African. Biotechnology might help. The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) tells us how biotech can help to feed people. ‘A successful strategy should have MULTIPLE … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, food, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged Africa, biotechnology, breeding, cassava, corn, crop variety, development, feed, food, fruit, fuel, genetic modification, grain, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, knowledge, legume, maize, marker assisted selection, melon, millet, pearl millet, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, potato, research, seed, selective breeding, sorghum, soya, staple food, sugar cane, sweet potato, textile, tissue culture, tomato, trade, transport, tuber, wheat
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Top Ten Facts about Biotech/GM Crops in 2012
Genetically modified (GM, aka genetically engineered) crops are being grown more and more. Today the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) published this summary of what they consider to be the ‘Top Ten Facts about Biotech/GM Crops … Continue reading
Developing countries grow more genetically modified crops than industrialised countries do
The International Service for the Aquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) says that, for the first time, developing countries have grown more hectares of biotech crops than industrialized countries. Biotech crops are also called genetically modified (GM) crops or genetically engineered … Continue reading
Golden Rice: a golden ticket to health, or fool’s gold?
Many people’s diets are deficient in Vitamin A. It’s worst in poor countries. One solution might be for people to grow and eat Golden Rice. Or not. It’s a huge leap to say that a problem of malnutrition (which is … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, food, human health
Tagged biofortification, biotechnology, child, development, food, genetic modification, Golden Rice, grain, human, International Rice Research Institute, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, milk, nutrition, plant_monocot, politics, poverty, research, rice, sustainable, Syngenta, Vitamin A
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