The world is starting to open its eyes to the wonder of Golden Rice.
On May 24, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave its approval to this genetically m...
Their eyes tell their sad stories as ghostly white irises give way to vacant stares. We can look at them but they can’t look back at us. They’ve gone blind beca...
I choose to grow genetically modified crops on my farm for a simple reason: sustainability.
These products of modern science make me more economically and en...
A funny thing happened during the debate over GMO labels: A number of companies decided to make the voluntary disclosure that their food includes ingredients th...
The average African farmer is a 60-year-old man who took up agriculture because that’s what his parents did.
I’m a woman who, in her mid-20s, chose to become...
Half a century is a long time, but that’s how long I’ve been thinking seriously about India’s struggle with food security—and how technology can help to solve i...
When Vandana Shiva spoke to students at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa on November 16, she used one of her favorite lines: “Seeds must be in the hands of ...
“What a long, strange trip it’s been.”
For the past 25 months, Congress has been considering the role that biotechnology plays in agriculture and society and...
In 1885, the great European powers met in Berlin to share Africa amongst themselves, launching a dark period of colonialist exploitation.
Today, European law...
The world’s farmers have passed a remarkable milestone: We’ve just planted the world’s 5-billionth acre of genetically modified crops.
We don’t know exactly ...
