The antibiotechnology crowd has adopted a new talking point, claiming that biotechnology does not increase yields. Have these people never been to a farm to see what weeds and insects do to crop ...

The newly launched Biotech Africa Database is expected to improve transparency, support evidence-based policymaking, ...

Accra, July 02, GNA-The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA AfriCenter) in collaboration with its partners has launched a continental digital portal designed ...

Today, there is much discussion about how agriculture contributes to climate change. Most agree that we should continue improving food production and processing while reducing agriculture’s ...

The European Commission launched a proposal in July 2023 to deregulate a large number of plants manufactured using new genetic techniques. Despite extraordinary attempts by the Spanish presidency to ...

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Two groups issued contrasting reports on Thursday on the state of biotech crops, with one touting acreage growth while the other cited continued resistance by ...

If left unchecked, insect pests can devastate crops. To minimize damage and reduce the need for insecticide sprays, crops have been genetically engineered to produce bacterial proteins that kill key ...

The global acreage devoted to genetically altered crops jumped 15 percent last year, the seventh straight year of double-digit growth and a sign that a broad controversy over the safety of the ...

Have you ever wondered where our agricultural crops come from? And what were they like thousands of years ago, or hundreds of years ago? Our food crops today are in fact very different from the ...

Feb 19 (Reuters) - Developing countries accounted for the first time last year for more than half the global biotech crop area, though the United States remains the primary nation making use of ...

Rwanda is moving closer to releasing its first biotech crops, with cassava, Irish potato and maize varieties showing strong performance in trials compared to conventional crops, officials from the ...