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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 of an organism, developed...

Food security and the environmental impact of agriculture remain crucial sustainability challenges facing our world today. Genome editing technology has been increasingly applied...

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...

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.

Governments advance discussions on a multilateral mechanism to share benefits from the use of digital sequence information on genetic resources.

Opening statement by the Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, David Cooper, at the first meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information...

Governments meet in Geneva to develop a multilateral mechanism to share benefits from the use of digital sequence information on genetic resources

Delegates to UN Biodiversity Convention move from agreement to action by concluding COP 15 in Nairobi

The EU-funded GeneBEcon project and the Cyprus University of Technology are organising the Science-Policy Symposium about New Genomic Techniques in Plants and Microalgae and their impact on agriculture, aquaculture...