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April 2020

World Trade May Profoundly Change; Companies Should Think Ahead

Winand Quaedvlieg - 0
In the last couple of weeks all attention, understandably, has been focused on combating the COVID-19 pandemic. But in the EU, other policies are...
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The Best Help We Can Give to Developing Countries is Access to Free Markets

Anthony Leddin - 0
In my first pilot project with Plant Breeders Without Borders, I was asked to go to Ethiopia to train smallholder farmers to breed their...
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April 2020

20 Benefits from Agricultural Genome Editing

David Zaruk - 0
It is often easy for anti-technology, anti-corporate activists to paint their own picture of reality, especially when it comes to the lucrative business of...
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April 2020

Fewer Sweets May Make For A Sweeter Life

Joe Schwarcz - 0
According to a New Guinean legend, the human race began when the first man made love to a stalk of sugar cane. Although conjuring...
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April 2020

Go or No-Go NGO?

Niels Louwaars - 0
Many colleagues in the sector find it so hard to deal with activist Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) that they prefer to keep maximum distance. It...
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The Science Of Plant-Based Meat Substitutes

Joe Schwarcz - 0
I’ve always had a special respect for peas. That’s because of the giant role they played in the advancement of science. It was through...
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Biotechnology

Why It Is So Difficult To Communicate Biotechnology?

Niels Louwaars - 0
Besides science, we all know that agriculture involves culture. We ‘cultivate’ (i.e. agri-culture contributes culture – human values) to the natural environment. Farming is...
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What is the Future of the ITPGRFA?

Michael Muschick - 0
New enhanced plant varieties have undoubtedly played a significant role regarding food security worldwide. A lot has been achieved. However, we are living in...
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Are we Ready to “Rewire” Agriculture?

David Zaruk - 0
“It can’t get any worse than this!” These were my thoughts while watching activist journalist George Monbiot’s vegan visionary piece, Apocalypse Cow, on the UK’s...
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Technology is the Solution

César Gonzalez - 0
For the past five years, the Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) of the European Commission has organised the EU Agricultural...
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