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Biotech Experts to Discuss Impact of GM Crops in India ISAAA invites everyone to the webinar on the Global Impact of GM Crops to be held on October 15, 2020 at 2 PM  (GMT+5:30) via Zoom.

Bt Cotton Adoption in India Impacts Yields, Profits, and Living Standards In a Matters Arising paper published in Nature Plants, Dr. Matin Qaim, Professor of International Food Economics and Rural Development at the University of Goettingen, Germany, summarized the sizeable benefits of Bt cotton for small farms in India.

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Brazil's CTNBio Gives Commercial Approval to HB4 Soybeans Besides the HB4 trait, the event stack with an herbicide tolerance trait was also approved. CTNBio's approval is followed by a 30-day public comment period, before the definitive approval document is produced. The commercial launch of the HB4 trait in Brazil is contingent upon approvals by the main....

Argentina First in the World to Approve Drought Tolerant HB4® Wheat Argentina's Ministry of Agriculture has granted approval of Bioceres Crop Solutions' HB4 wheat event for growth and consumption. The HB4 trait increases wheat yields by up to 20% and is currently the only drought tolerance technology for wheat and soybean crops in the world. Argentina is Latin Amer...

Research Highlights COVID-19 Impacts on Food Security in Kenya and Uganda Scientists from the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI) have conducted a new research that highlights the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security in Kenya and Uganda. Two-thirds of those surveyed have experienced economic hardship due to the pandemic. From a random sa...

Scientists Identify New Resistance Gene to Potato Disease that Caused Irish Famine Late blight, the most important and most destructive pathogen of potato, was caused by the microorganism Phytophthora infestans. Late blight is the disease that caused the Irish Famine of the 1840s and still one of the most serious threats to potato production that causes significant economic losse...

Ugandan Farmers Want Bt Maize to Address Fall Armyworm Challenge Upon learning that one of the ways they could effectively deal with the challenge of the fall armyworm was using Bt maize, farmers in eastern and Northern Uganda asked the government to allow them to grow this maize.

Relief as Kenyan medical experts say worst of COVID-19 is now behind us For six months now, Kenyans have had their lives turned upside down as they battled the coronavirus pandemic, a devastating unseen enemy that impacted lives.

Pregnant Women Face More Risks from COVID-19 With the increasing cases of COVID-19, experts are getting more insights about the effect of the virus on pregnant women.

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Experts Review Potential of Plant-Based Edible Vaccines Edible plant-based vaccines were developed to become part of the solution to address the possible hazards associated with the parenteral vaccines. Experts from India say that edible vaccines may eventually eradicate the global outbreak of infectious diseases.

Animal Biotech Offers Potential in Addressing Food Insecurity Animal biotechnology has been primed to contribute significantly towards addressing the challenge of food security, especially in the developing world. During a webinar organized by ISAAA AfriCenter, experts agreed that animal biotechnology is an inevitable part of the toolkit to address climate-rel...