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Biotechnology, Commentaries, Health

The GMO Debate: One Student’s Experience of Pro-GMO Propaganda at Cornell University

August 1, 2016
Robert Schooler

My name is Robert, and I am a Cornell University undergraduate student. However, I’m not sure if I want to be one any more. Allow me to explain. Cornell, as an institution, appears to be …

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(Un)Sustainable Farming, Commentaries

The Centrality of Seed: Building Agricultural Resilience Through Plant Breeding

February 29, 2016
Wheat Breeding

by Salvatore Ceccarelli, PhD Five of the global issues most frequently debated today are the decline of biodiversity in general and of agrobiodiversity in particular, climate change, hunger and malnutrition, poverty and water. Seed is …

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(Un)Sustainable Farming, Commentaries, Health

Students Protest the University of California’s War on Agroecology

November 30, 2015
Gill Tract Farm March 2012

(UC STUDENTS’ OPEN LETTER TO THE EXTERNAL ADVISORY BOARD OF THE AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE (ASI) & SAREP) As the students of the University of California, we come to you today to share our often silenced …

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Biotechnology, News

No Scientific Consensus on Safety of Genetically Modified Organisms

October 21, 2013
ENSSER

Press release from ENSSER: There is no scientific consensus on the safety of genetically modified foods and crops, according to a statement released today by an international group of more than 90 scientists, academics and …

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(Un)Sustainable Farming, Commentaries

How Millions of Farmers are Advancing Agriculture For Themselves

December 3, 2012
SRI-grown Rice in China

by Jonathan Latham, PhD The world record yield for paddy rice production is not held by an agricultural research station or by a large-scale farmer from the United States, but by Sumant Kumar who has …

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