Just as new agricultural techniques and equipment spurred on food production in the Middle Ages, and scientific crop breeding, fertilisers and pesticides did so for the Green Revolution of the 20th century, so we must rely on the latest technology to boost food production further, asserts
There is an economic and political battle taking place in America over the labelling of GM foods. In 2015, 19 US states considered GM food labelling legislation and three states, Connecticut, Maine and Vermont have passed mandatory GM labelling laws.
What is the anti-GM brigade going to do with this news? New research shows that sweet potatoes from all over the world naturally contain genes from the bacterium Agrobacterium. Researchers from UGent and the International Potato Institute (CIP) have published this discovery today on the website of PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA).