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Every year, in a tradition dating to the 1940s, thousands gather in the Spanish town of Buñol for La Tomatina, a giant “food fight”, in which participants gleefully pelt each other with tomatoes and get very, very messy. There’s blood in the streets, but it belongs to the tomatoes. However, according to a study in the…

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has released an updated guide for policy makers in developing countries on how to address the negative impacts of high food prices.

The final report of the United Kingdoms Foresight project on Global Food and Farming Futures is now available. It provides an overview of the evidence and discusses the challenges and choices made by policy makers and others with regards to all aspects of the global food system.

International and Kenyan experts met on Thursday with Kenyan government officials, donors, and various food and health-related organizations to share results from recent research on the prevalence of aflatoxin contamination in maize.

ST. LOUIS, MO January 17, 2011— The opium poppy, one of mankind’s oldest medicinal plants, serves today as the commercial source of the powerful analgesic morphine, from which a variety of analgesics and antitussive alkaloids, such as codeine, are derived by semi-synthesis.

When the planting season arrives later this year, farmers in the United States will have a new way to safeguard their crops from drought. Last week, DuPont subsidiary Pioneer Hi‐Bred International, headquartered in Johnston, Iowa, announced plans to release a series of hybrid maize (corn) strains that can flourish with…

The first transgenic drought tolerant maize trials under the Water Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA) project were planted in confined fields in Uganda on 25 November and in Kenya on 1 December 2010 following the regulatory approval given by the respective national biosafety committee/ authority.

Three quarters of the area farmed with soybeans and more than half of the area planted with corn use GM seeds in the 2010/11 season, according to the 2nd issue of study performed by Celeres.

Prof. Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary, director of the Pakistan Biotechnology Information Center and concurrent director of the International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences at Karachi University (ICCBS), was given the COMSTECH Award 2010 in recognition of his services in the field of chemistry.