Farmers Field Approved by LA City Council ThirdAge The future Los Angeles NFL stadium Farmers Field was given the go ahead by the City Council Tuesday, the Associated Press reported. Developers involved in the venture had long sought a Council endorsement in order to prove to league officials that … LA council backs NFL stadium proposalUSA Today
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U.S. farmers get approval to plant GMO alfalfa
KANSAS CITY/WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) – The United States said on Thursday farmers could proceed with planting genetically altered alfalfa without any of the restrictions that opponents say are crucial to protect organic and conventional farm fields from contamination.The decision, closely watched by supporters and protesters around the world for its potential implications on biotech crop …
Support to farmers, R&D seen crucial to raising wheat output
Good support to research and development (R&D), active farmers’ participation is needed for wheat productivity enhancement under changing global climate.
Oniang’o Sees GMOs Decreasing Hunger African Farmers Need Food Biotechnology The Honorable Ruth Oniang’o expresses an urgent need to provide African families – 50% to 75% of whom are engaged in & rely solely on agriculture – with access to food biotechnology crops.
Adoption Of Biotech Crops By U.S. Farmers Continues To Rise
American farmers continue to enthusiastically choose genetically engineered (GE) crops over their conventional counterparts, according to a new USDA report. USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) report, Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crops in the U.S. was released July 1, 2010. Key findings include: – Adoption of GE soybeans is 93 percent in 2010. (up from 91 percent in 2009) – Adoption of …
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Product Description
This book addresses the continuing controversy over the potential impact of genetically modified (GM) crops in developing countries. Supporters of the technology claim it offers one of the best hopes for increasing agricultural production and reducing rural poverty, while opponents see it as an untested intervention that will bring corporate control of peasant farming. The book examines the issues by reviewing the experience of GM, insect-resistant cotton, the most widely grown GM crop in developing countries.
The book begins with an introduction to agricultural biotechnology, a brief examination of the history of cotton production technology (and the institutions required to support that technology), and a thorough review of the literature on the agronomic performance of GM cotton. It then provides a review of the economic and institutional outcomes of GM cotton during the first decade of its use. The core of the book is four country case studies based on original fieldwork in the principal developing countries growing GM cotton (China, India, South Africa and Colombia). The book concludes with a summary of the experience to date and implications for the future of GM crops in developing countries.
This review challenges those who have predicted technological failure by describing instances in which GM cotton has proven useful and has been enthusiastically taken up by smallholders. But it also challenges those who claim that biotechnology can take the lead in agricultural development by examining the precarious institutional basis on which these hopes rest in most countries. The analysis shows how biotechnology’s potential contribution to agricultural development must be seen as a part of (and often secondary to) more fundamental policy change. The book should be of interest to a wide audience concerned with agricultural development. This would include academics in the social and agricultural sciences, donor agencies and NGOs.
