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 …
Scientists must ask corporations for permission before publishing independent research on genetically modified crops. That restriction must end. (Editorial)
After slipping into the league of least-growing states in agriculture, Punjab has made a turnaround in the last two years with the advance estimates for 2008-09 putting the state's growth rate at 5.08 per cent. The state, which registered a low 2.7 per cent growth rate during the 10th Five …
International green groups attacked Europe's leading food safety agency on Wednesday for its views on biotech crops and foods, saying a recent opinion was flawed and had ignored studies highlighting safety concerns. In a report analyzing last month's opinion by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) on the safety of …
The government, it seems, has decided to go slow on the Food Security Act, something it had promised to enact very quickly, just a month ago. An early indicator of the changed approach was evident in the Budget speech when the finance minister said that a draft of the legislation …
Genetic modification may be the only viable way to produce sufficient quantities of rice in the future as drought, climate change and dwindling acreage impact yields, experts said in a new report. The main challenge facing producers is how to raise yields of the water-dependent crop as 70% of the …
Days after the government said it was planning to introduce genetically modified food crops in the country in three years, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton gave a clear indication of the US administration
After the fibre crop Bt. Cotton, genetically-engineered food crops look set for more action, with Bt. Brinjal (eggplant) and golden rice expected to be released in the country in less than three years. According to Dr Sajiv Anand, Director of All India Crop Biotechnology Association (AICBA), genetically-engineered brinjal (Bt. Brinjal) …
BHUBANESWAR: Members of All India Crop Biotechnology Association (AICBA) Wednesday called for adoption of innovative technologies to boost crop productivity to meet food security needs. Calling for an urgent need to increase food productivity visualising the uncertain monsoon rains, climate change and other weather parameters here Wednesday, they also said …
The European Union took a step closer on Tuesday toward 10 more years of biotech cultivation after leading scientists reconfirmed the safety of the only genetically modified crop as yet commercially grown in Europe. That crop is an insect-resistant maize type developed and marketed by U.S. company Monsanto, approved for …
This latest report by ISAAA documents how various stakeholders from 14 countries in Africa and Asia have benefited from science communication efforts and how in turn, they are now part of the process of realizing a collective voice on crop biotechnology. Communicating Crop Biotechnology: Stories from Stakeholders documents how various …
patent Human genes create stir in US About 100,000 cancer patients, doctors, researchers and lawyers sued the US government for granting patents for two human genes. They said the patents deny women with breast and ovarian cancer the benefit of new tests and possible treatment. A company or an institution …
Canadian farmers oppose the introduction of genetically modified wheat until market conditions change, a Canadian Wheat Board survey has found. In the CWB's annual survey of 1,300 Western Canadian farmers, only 9 percent said GMO wheat should be grown as soon as it's available, with the majority saying it shouldn't …
): An important factor of the economic crisis is the underlying stagnation in yields per acre of major crops, a study of Planning Commission (PC) reported. Agriculture experts revealed that if the yield potential of the medium and small size farm sector is achieved, food shortages can be converted into …
