As biotech companies hoover up patents, Geoff Tansey considers what we could end up paying for our future food supply
… of systems, their capacity to maintain a diversity of life. Economists don’t think like … had spill-over effects on negotiations on biodiversity in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and on plant genetic resources …
Can food crops really be engineered to thrive - and to yield more - under drought conditions? After 25 years we're still waiting for the flood of evidence, says Prof Jack Heinemann
… such land is an important reserve of biodiversity and provides so-called ‘ecosystem … agriculture. Further threats to biodiversity might come from the invasion of … not wanted, making it a weed and reducing biodiversity. For example, oilseed rape is an …
Last year celebrity pig farmer Jimmy Doherty kept 1000 organically reared pigs, while this year apparently he's raised barely 200. But if Jimmy’s farm is on the skids, the same cannot be said of his career as a media celeb.
… two white males. On the pro-GM side we got diversity: two women GM scientists, a Ugandan …
The promise of more food from increased yields is driving the appeal for more GM crops, but that promise is theoretical and unfulfilled, argue Dr Ricarda A Steinbrecher and Antje Lorch
… use of fossil fuel products, diminished diversity, loss of land rights and small-scale …