The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
The European Parliament is today expected to clear the way for controversial ‘Frankenfood’ crops to be grown in Britain. MEPs will vote to clear the block on growing controversial genetically modified (GM) crops that has effectively stopped commercial cultivation for a decade. The new rules will allow each country to …
Lord Krebs claims that organic farming needs more land than conventional methods to produce the same yield Organic farming could be worse for the climate than conventional farming methods, one of the government’s scientific advisers has said, because of the greater land use required and the methods used. Lord Krebs, …
Genetically modified food should be grown in Britain because it is more ‘eco-friendly’, the Environment Secretary claimed yesterday. Publicly backing the controversial technology for the first time since she was appointed six months ago, Elizabeth Truss said the UK should take steps to speed up its development. Her claims were …
Permits renewed for research on several rice and corn strains, a move hailed by some scientists as a big step towards commercialisation The central government has renewed permits allowing scientists to grow three varieties of genetically modified rice and corn on the mainland, more than three months after they expired, …
Speakers said that there were some misunderstandings among the people regarding GM crops which needed to be addressed on a priority basis Genetically modified crops can be a solution for the growing farmer suicide in the country. Speakers at the 102 nd Indian Science Congress while discussing in the symposium …
Monday’s ISC session on GM crops didn’t have a single critical paper Farmer suicides in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha area and other parts of the country have nothing to do with Bt cotton, scientists said at the Indian Science Congress here on Monday. “There is a lot of negative public perception about …
This paper attempts to model the positive role of cultivation of Genetically Modified (GM) crop with its soil-anchoring root-characteristic and use of conservation-tillage technology, in saving organic matter contents in the topsoil and reducing soil erosion. In a dynamic optimization framework the farmer produces an optimal combination of a GM …
PARIS, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Advances in understanding the genetic make-up of plants could ultimately help to produce more resilient, higher-yielding crops, the head of French seed company Limagrain said, with the potential to end the heated debate over genetic modification. Distrust of crops produced using genetically modified organisms (GMOs) …
There is no ban on GM crop field trials either by the government or the Supreme Court, environment minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday said. The minister informed Lok Sabha that the government is of the view that research in GM and confined field trials for generating bio-safety data with all …
On November 4th voters in Colorado rejected a ballot initiative that would have required special labels for foods made with genetically modified (GM) ingredients. As The Economist went to press, voters in Oregon seemed likely to say no to a similar proposal there, though the count was not complete. Regardless …
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Gujarat has become the 11th state in the country to discourage field trials of the genetically modified (GM) food crops though it will continue to allow production of BT Cotton. This has been revealed in the state government’s reply to an application under the Right to Information Act by an …
The Chinese government is trying to convince Zhou Guangxiu that the corn in the congee she wants to feed her son is safe. That may not be easy. Zhou, the owner of a recycling business in the northeast coastal city of Weihai, said one source of her concern was an …
The National Assembly's Standing Committee on National Food, Security and Research Wednesday approved Seed Amendments Bill 2014 to improve the existing law, enabling it to meet the requirements of modern seed industry. The committee that met with Malik Shakir Bashir Awan in the chair here decided to increase the proposed …
It’s an unfashionable thing to admit, but sometimes what happens in the European Parliament really matters. This week, unnoticed by almost everyone, MEPs will consider proposals by the European commission and member states to overturn a ban on the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops in Europe. But it’s a …
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Gujarat has joined 10 other states in saying no to field trials of genetically modified (GM) food crops. In a major setback to the proponents of GM crops who generally used to cite Gujarat as an example for its liberal approach on transgenic crops, the state government has denied mandatory …
