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An Update on Tried and True Methods
In December, 2006, the Economist magazine famously pronounced that farming is inherently bad for the planet. “Since humans took it up around 11,000 years...
Bill Freese: Food-Sci vs.Sci-Fi
Bill Freese is tired of promises. In the 30 years since scientists first announced that they could crack the secrets of plant and seeds...
Using Science To End World Hunger
A popular perception of the phrase “genetically engineered food” looks something like Victor Frankenstein’s lab. Only evil. Particularly in Europe, where genetically modified produce...
Pedro Sanchez: A Smarter Way To Combat Hunger
Pedro Sanchez, a senior research scholar and director of tropical agriculture at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, will participate in the panel “How...
Biotech Lectures, Feeding the Earth, and More
Wednesday, April 29: Sustainable Biotech Location: Carl A....
Feeding Our Hungry Planet Without Destroying It
It has gotten little public attention, but the interrelationship between malnutrition and global warming is as serious and as paradoxical as it gets. Worldwide,...