New York Times Attempt at a Nuanced View of GMOs Lacks Nuance
Guest Author: Kevin Folta, professor and chairman of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida | Follow him on Twitter: @kevinfolta […]
Month: October 2016
Could Wild Mangoes Solve the World’s Chocolate Crisis?
Guest authors: Sayma Akhter, Bangor University; Morag McDonald, Bangor University, and Ray Marriott, Bangor University This article originally appeared on The Conversation. It appears here […]
Can Upscale Chocolate Turn the Tide on Haiti’s Devastating Deforestation?
With 98 percent of their trees gone, Haitians eye cocoa-based agroforestry as a way to combat poverty and renew the land. Guest Author: Meg Wilcox […]
These East African Countries Show How Teamwork and Technology Can Thwart Illegal Fishing
Innovation sparks success as nations collaborate to identify and take action against suspect vessels Guest author: Emma Bryce @EmmaSAanne This piece originally appeared in Ensia. […]
Moving Beyond Pro/Con Debates Over Genetically Engineered Crops
Guest Author: Pamela Ronald | Professor of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis This piece originally appeared in The Conversation. It appears here under a […]
Meet the Farmworker Who Helped Win Rent Control in California’s Wine Country
Guest Authors: Brooke AndersonDavin Cardenas and Davin Cardenas This piece originally appeared in Yes! Magazine. It is republished here under a Creative Commons license. After […]
Trump’s Wall Ignores the Economic Logic of Undocumented Immigrant Labor
Guest Author: Lise Nelson, Pennsylvania State University This article previously appeared in The Conversation. It appears here by permission under a Creative Commons license. EDITOR’S […]
Alcoholism Research: A Virus Could Manipulate Neurons to Reduce the Desire to Drink
Guest authors: Yifeng Cheng, Texas A&M University and Jun Wang, Texas A&M University About 17 million adults and more than 850,000 adolescents had some problems […]
With the Familiar Cavendish Banana in Danger, Can Science Help it Survive?
Guest authors: Ioannis Stergiopoulos, University of California, Davis; André Drenth, The University of Queensland, and Gert Kema, Wageningen University __________________________ The banana is the world’s […]
What’s Going on With Hillary Clinton, the Estate Tax, and Family Farms
There is a meme going around ag circles on social media that claims that Hillary Clinton is trying to tax family farms with an […]
What Michael Pollan Gets Wrong About Big Ag
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Citizen, Fact Check Thyself
There is a petition on Change.org currently circulating calling for a ban on the use of growth hormones in poultry production in the state of […]
How Technology Is Making It Easier to Track Fish From Hook to Fork
A combination of new tracing technologies and business models are making it easier to figure out how and where a fish was caught. Guest Author: […]
European Union: Please Make Up Your Mind on Organic, for the Sake of the Environment
Guest Author: Gary Frewin Is the practice of organic farming supposed to be about eco-farming at its best or is it supposed to be all […]
Inconvenient Glyphosate Math
Guest author: Kevin Folta, University of Florida There is a lot of discussion about glyphosate use and its relative toxicity lately. For activists, it is […]
What Is It About This Soil That Protects Plants From Devastating Disease?
Guest author: Kayleigh O’Keeffe This story previously appeared in Ensia on September 21,2016 Figuring out why certain soils keep plant parasites at bay could be […]
How Norway Became an Anti-GMO Powerhouse
Eight years, $3.6 million a year, 40 employees, zero knowledge back. This is the story of GenØk and the politicization of science in Norway. […]
What Explains the Discrepancy in Organic Sales Versus Organic Acreage?
Here’s a question that came up in the Food and Farm Discussion Lab forum: Last stat I saw actual organic farms of all types made […]