Highlights: Societal attitudes towards GM foods in the MENAT region are predominantly negative. People in the MENAT region have poor levels of knowledge about GM...
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It has been a challenge to support the expansion of urban agriculture (UA) in cities due to its poor economic profitability. However, it is also hard to deny...
In this Letterbox series, Hiwote Bekele and Tesfaye Shiferaw Sida (PhD) debate the Ethiopian government's approach to regulating the cultivation of genetically modified organisms.
The current EU legislation on GMOs and food and feed containing GMOs requires analytical testing to support traceability of these products on the market. Here the European Network of GMO...
A future EU overall strategy for agriculture and forest genetic resources management: Finding consensus through policymakers’ participation
The Genetic Resources Strategy for Europe (GRSE) is an overarching, integrated strategy for the conservation and use of plant, animal and forest genetic resources both the domesticated and wild to ensure more...
Unmixed blessing - Researchers are closing in on the long-sought goal of creating high-yielding hybrid crops that can be propagated indefinitely, without sex
‘Game changer.’ Scientists are genetically engineering crops to clone themselves.
This workshop report summarises the presentations at a workshop for Parties to the Nagoya Protocol organised by the EU in Brussels in November 2017.
This report presents a review of market applications of new genomic techniques (NGTs). For the purposes of this study, NGTs are defined as ‘techniques that are able to alter the genetic material...
Duckweeds are amongst the fastest growing of higher plants, making them attractive high-biomass targets for biofuel feedstock production. Their fronds have high rates...
An enabling, evidence-based decision-making framework is critical to support agricultural biotechnology innovation, and to ensure farmers’ access to genetically modified (GM) crops, including orphan crop varieties...