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"One thing is clear about climate change—we need to be ready for it," said Undersecretary Fred Serrano of the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA). Serrano was addressing about 400 farmers who attended ...

Iran Biotechnology Information Center- Following the successful organization of Dr. Borlaugs Centennial in Iran, Dr. Kenneth Quinn, The President of the World Food Prize who attended this event with his wife, on his return to WFP, officially invited one wheat breeder and ...

A censorship row has erupted between Greenpeace and the Indian government after Ben Hargreaves, a Greenpeace representative, was turned away by immigration officials at Delhi airport and sent back the UK despite ...

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...