How much does food consumption adversely affect the global environment? According to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, livestock accounts for nearly 18% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Since…
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In December 2011, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) enacted a new agricultural law that would make it extremely difficult for peasant farmers to become owners of the land they…
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A new worldwide spike in agricultural commodity and food prices is generating both predictable and extraordinary fall-outs. The search for causes once again leads to a conjuncture of flawed policies…
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Concern is growing over the health impact of growing and eating genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The World Health Organization has identified allergenicity, antibiotic resistance, gene transfer, outcrossing, GM genes introduced…
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Rising global temperatures, increasing population, and degradation of water supplies, have created broad support for the growing field of weather modification. The U.S. government has conducted weather modification experiments for…