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Crop Yields

Experts Develop New Wheat Strain

Reuters | Tan Ee Lyn | Posted 05.12.2012 | Green
Read More: Farming, Video, Wheat, New Wheat Strain, New Research, Agriculture, Salt-Tolerant Wheat, Food, Crop Yields, Food Science, Agricultural Science, Reuters, Green News

By Tan Ee Lyn HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists in Australia have crossed a popular, commercial variety of wheat with an ancient species...

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New Report: GMOs Causing Massive Pesticide Pollution

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Gentically Engindeered Foods, Pesticides, The Organic Center, Bayer, Dupont, Monsanto, Gmos, Union of Concerned Scientists, Syngenta, Food Safety, Crop Yields, Herbicides, Biotech, Center for Food Safety, Dow, Climate Change, Green News
Andrew Kimbrell

There is one fact about genetically engineered foods that there is no debate about: no one wakes up in the morning eager to buy gene-altered food. There's good reason for this.

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Evaluating the Legacy of the Father of the Green Revolution

Paula Crossfield | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Norman Borlaug, Crop Yields, Hunger, Gmos, Technology, World Hunger, Food Security, The Green Revolution, Green News
Paula Crossfield

Norman Borlaug, known for winning the Nobel Prize in 1970 for his role in the Green Revolution, died this past weekend at age 95. His life was dedicated to ending hunger through technology.

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