Feeding a world of 9 billion
Today the development agency Oxfam launches a global campaign against food insecurity, focusing on the challenge of feeding everyone on the planet in an era of increasing resource scarcity. After some...
View ArticleGreenpeace and GM wheat: time to stand up for science
I have resisted posting anything on Greenpeace’s destruction of a genetically-modified wheat test site in Australia last week because – following from the spat over the IPCC renewables report – I...
View ArticleWhy land and water are ‘planetary boundaries’– not population
When it comes to food production, humanity is on a collision course with the planet. Agriculture is one of the biggest drivers of global ecological degradation: farming displaces natural ecosystems,...
View ArticleLecture to Oxford Farming Conference, 3 January 2013
[Comments are now closed - it was getting impossible to manage them given the volume.] Chinese translation… Italian translation… German translation… Spanish translation… French translation… Vietnamese...
View ArticleProfessor Nina Fedoroff, Chair of the AAAS board – Q&A on GMOs
Dr. Nina Fedoroff is a leading geneticist and molecular biologist and a Distinguished Professor of Biosciences at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia, where she is...
View ArticleGolden promise: How ‘biofortification’ could soon be saving hundreds of...
Despite the rapid progress made towards reducing poverty in many developing countries in recent years, high rates of malnutrition persist – and Vitamin A deficiency remains a persistent challenge. One...
View ArticleUsing the tools of biotechnology to advance Borlaug’s legacy
Keynote speech by Mark Lynas to the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative 2013 Technical Workshop, Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi 20 August 2013, 8.30am [as prepared - please check against delivery] Ladies,...
View ArticleWhy we need to label GMOs
Mark Lynas speech to Center for Food Integrity Summit, Chicago, 15 October 2013 Audio on YouTube: Ladies and gentlemen, In just about three weeks from now, on November 5, Washington State will likely...
View ArticleScientists challenge Swedish government over funding of Golden Rice trial...
This is a guest posting by the signatories below To: Minister for Development Cooperation Hillevi Engström Department of Foreign Affairs Gustav Adolfs torg 1 SE-103 39 Stockholm Why does Swedish...
View ArticleSIDA responds; scientists push for answers over funding of Golden Rice vandalism
This is an English translation of the response by the Swedish minister of development cooperation to a letter sent by scientists protesting its funding of Masipag, a Filipino activist group linked to...
View ArticleOwen Paterson overdoes his attack on Greenpeace
Anyone reading my blog will know that I’m no knee-jerk supporter of Greenpeace, though I think they do some great work on climate, forests, overfishing and other areas. However, in today’s extended...
View ArticleMark Lynas plenary speech for International Rice Congress 2014, Bangkok,...
1.30pm Bangkok time, 31 October 2014 The theme of this conference is ‘Rice for the World’. A few years ago the UN had an entire year dedicated to the theme ‘Rice is Life’. There can be no doubting the...
View ArticleEU GMO cultivation decision – science sidelined, but UK will get right to choose
Is the glass half full or half empty? Today the European Parliament passed proposals to allow EU member states to permanently ban the cultivation of GMO crops on their territories, even if scientific...
View ArticleHow I Got Converted to GMO Food – New York Times opinion
My report from Bangladesh and Kenya NAIROBI, Kenya — Mohammed Rahman doesn’t know it yet, but his small farm in central Bangladesh is globally significant. Mr. Rahman, a smallholder farmer in...
View ArticleMonsanto makes the wrong choice – again
Just what exactly is Monsanto playing at? Apparently not satisfied with its continuing role as the favourite pantomime villain for every anti-GMO activist in the world, the St Louis-based company...
View ArticleAfrica must modernise its farms in order to fight hunger and poverty
Africa desperately needs agricultural modernisation. With the most rapidly growing population in the world and hundreds of millions still suffering malnutrition, African leaders cannot afford to close...
View ArticleEcomodernism… and a plea for depolarisation
Remarks at ‘Eco-Modernism: Restoring Science to Environment Policy’, hosted by UK2020 & Owen Paterson MP, London 9.30am, 24 September 2015 Thanks to UK2020 and Owen Paterson for hosting this event....
View ArticleCampbells is right – it’s time to introduce federal mandatory labeling
By Mark Lynas Yesterday, in a hugely significant move, the food manufacturer Campbell Soup Company announced that it was supporting labeling of GMOs. Why is this hugely significant? Because Campbell is...
View ArticleDeformed GMO Franken-butterflies? Not so fast…
It’s like Seralini with caterpillars. While the estimable Professor Giles-Eric had his infamous rats with tumours, this time we get deformed butterflies. The only surprise is that the media has not so...
View ArticleNew scientific paper proposes ‘paradigm shift’ in sustainable agriculture
Everyone agrees – in theory at least – that the priority for farming should be ‘sustainable intensification’, producing much more food primarily through achieving increased yields rather than ploughing...
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