Tag Archives: GMO

Value chains and policy work are crucial to the adoption of Golden Rice and other biofortified genetically modified crops

After Golden Rice receives all the required approvals for food, feed, and cultivation and is found to be efficacious, a sustainable delivery program will...

High science and smart policies will alleviate hunger and poverty

Science-based improvements in agricultural technology have contributed significantly—across two Green Revolutions—to alleviating hunger and poverty...

Genome editing: a new tool for rewriting the DNA code

In the new era of genomic research, “genome editing” technology has been developed, consisting of new tools that enable not only rapid alterations...

India must use science-based improvements to improve agriculture

Science-based improvements in agricultural technology have been at the forefront of alleviating hunger and poverty. The first Green Revolution that started...

Where’s my GM rice?

“It is not science that has held back the use of molecular genetics in rice breeding,” says a former anti-GMO activist, “it is politics.”...

Debunking Golden Rice myths: a geneticist’s perspective

Beta carotene, which the human body converts into Vitamin A, is essential for eye health and the proper functioning of the immune system. It is naturally...

Will Europe’s perspective on GM crops shift?

(Photo: IRRI) Although GM potato with modified starch and Bt maize are currently grown in Germany and Spain, respectively, nearly 15 years have passed...

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