Major backlash As Kenya’s crops fail, a fight over GMOs rages Faced with extreme drought, Kenya’s president OK'd a controversial new crop. Matt Reynolds, wired.com – Mar 5, 2023 4:39 AM | 224 ...

Last year, extreme drought in Texas and throughout the U.S. South wiped out crops and left livestock without pasture or hay, with damages to the agriculture industry calculated at more than $5 ...

[1/2]Wheat plants genetically modified with a strain called HB4, which have a gene that helps them better tolerate drought, are pictured inside a laboratory at Bioceres Crop Solutions in Rosario ...

GMO wheat started making headlines once again after a drought-tolerant wheat trait was recently deregulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

The trials will include 30 genetically modified wheat hybrids, each containing genes for drought tolerance derived from maize, thale cross, moss, or yeast. To date, there is no known drought-tolerant ...

“If anti-GMO organic activists are successful, C4 rice will wind up on the back shelf, alongside a growing stockpile of other drought-resistant GMO crops, such as wheat and barley, scientists were ...

Amid growing public concern over the safety of genetically modified crops in Nigeria, scientists in Nigeria’s biotechnology space have come ...

A scorching drought in Southern Africa that led to widespread crop failure could nudge African nations to finally embrace genetically modified (GM) crops to improve harvests and reduce grain imports.

In September 2016, the first GMO field trial was attempted in a semi-arid desert in Tanzania. As part of the Water Efficient Maize for Africa project, it aimed to test whether drought-tolerant GM ...

The Union of Concerned Scientists, which warns about the dangers of global warming, has produced a report on the effectiveness of GM drought-tolerant crops. The High and Dry report, published in ...

The Indonesian government has approved a variety of GMO wheat for human consumption designed to better resist drought, leading Argentine biotech firm Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp and developer of ...