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Transforming our Food Systems Is the Only Way to Nourish the World

by Katharine Earley The way we produce our food is under pressure like never before. And with the climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic now posing the greatest challenges to nourishing the expanding global population, ...
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Organic Farmers Are Not Anti-Science but Genetic Engineers Often Are

by Elizabeth Henderson At one of the public brainstorming sessions for the New York Organic Action Plan, an organic farmer made an impassioned plea for support for “independent science” and told us that with 8.5 billion mouths to feed by 2050, we will need genetic engineering to prevent starvation. I ...