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Pyeongchang / Montreal, 29 September 2014. The seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (or COP-MOP 7) opened today at the Alpensia Convention Center in Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea.…

Des Moines, Iowa) September 17, 2014 World Food Prize President Amb. Kenneth M. Quinn has returned from an unprecedented trip to Iran, the only former U.S. Ambassador ever invited to deliver an address there in recent decades. On August 26, in his capacity as ...

Vietnams Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has granted licenses to four genetically modified (GM) corn varieties to be used for ...

The President of the World Food Prize Foundation, Dr. Kenneth Quinn, said this in an opening remark on the occasion of the celebrating ceremony of late Dr. Norman Borlaug’s 100th birthday during the First International and the 13th national Iranian Crop Science Congress. He continued: ...

ISAAA releases the latest Brief 47: The Status of Commercialized Bt Brinjal in Bangladesh. Brief 47 presents a thorough review and analysis of the deregulation of Bt brinjal in Bangladesh – from the scientific and biosafety assessment ...

The eminent plant scientist Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram, born in India and a citizen of Mexico, will be honored as the 2014 World Food Prize Laureate for his scientific research that led to a prodigious increase in world wheat production ...

The deputy minister of agriculture, who also serves as the head of Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Dr. Eskandar Zand announced that Iran will start the process to field test insect resistant rice and cotton...

(By Rodolfo Calò) (ANSAmed) - TEHRAN - The presentation of what has been dubbed the Islamic Nobel Prize for science and technology was held on March 10 in the Iranian capitals Pardis Technological Park. The Mustafa Science and Technology Prize, in honor of ...

Some 38 members of the ISAAA network from 15 countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa gathered together in Hanoi, Vietnam on March 18-19, 2014 to evaluate and discuss their knowledge sharing initiatives on biotechnology. Mr. Le Van Tien, director of AgBiotech Vietnam ...

Addressing the gathering of senior policy makers and agriculture officials, the Union Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation Mr. U Myint Hlaing acknowledged the major contribution of Bt cotton in doubling cotton production and increasing income of small holder farmers in Myanmar...