Few innovations in food have been so polarizing or as puzzling, with a wide gap remaining between the science and public perceptions of this technology. So much so that companies such as Bayer, which ...
Bread and biscuits made from Crispr-edited wheat showed substantially reduced acrylamide levels, even after toasting ...
Whilst New Zealand has not adopted GE crops, some other countries have done so, with the two main genetically modified crops being either resistant to herbicides or are engineered to produce ...
The Trump administration wants to continue the use of the herbicide dicamba. That’s despite fears it’s killing sensitive ...
A gene -edited wheat that produces toasted bread that is less carcinogenic has been developed by scientists.
More than 20 crops with edited genes have been cultivated in several countries since 2024, according to the International ...
CropLife said the recently released performance results raised questions about the APVMA's ability to assess applications for ...
Root lesion nematodes can cause yield loss via poor establishment and vigour of crops, causing tens of millions of dollars of ...
In collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature (LVVN), Wageningen University & ...
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Nigeria’s food security, culture, and politics of hunger

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, faces a deepening food security crisis. Recent warnings from activist Nnimmo Bassey spotlight a critical issue: the erosion of traditional food systems by junk ...
British scientists used CRISPR to cut acrylamide in bread by lowering wheat asparagine, without yield loss, after successful field trials ...