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Available via e-mail and online, Food Security and Ag-Biotech (FS-AgBiotech) News is a free daily news service covering the most important global developments related to agriculture and food security, with a strong emphasis on issues related to the controversy over agricultural biotechnology.

FS-AgBiotech News provides succinct summaries of the most pertinent news stories, op-eds, journal articles, and reports on biotechnology, biosafety, agricultural research and development, intellectual property rights, technology transfer, liability and redress, genetic resources, trade, and economic development. FS-AgBiotech News draws information from a diverse range of sources including peer-reviewed journals, international news wires, and a variety of publications form industry, government, and NGOs.

FS-AgBiotech News is an example of the tools and strategies developed by Meridian Institute to help people solve problems and make informed decisions. Support for FS-AgBiotech News is provided by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Please note that it is the policy of Food Security and Ag-Biotech News to use the titles from the original source for summaries, and these do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editors.


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Drought-Tolerant Seed Could Boost Corn Crop -- Wichita Eagle (7/2/2009) Kraig Roozeboom, a crop ecologist at Kansas State University in the U.S., says the drought tolerant genetically modified (GM) corn variety recently developed by Monsanto and BASF could increase yields in the U.S. state of Kansas by up to 50 percent in dry years.  [More]

The Genome-Assisted Barnyard -- Nature Biotechnology (7/2/2009) Progress in animal genomics is likely to have a "rapid and tangible" impact on agriculture, this editorial says.  [More]

Serbia: New Law on GMO is Prohibiting Trade or Commercial Growing of GMO -- USDA FAS (7/2/2009) Serbia's National Parliament passed a Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) Law on May 29, 2009 that fully prohibits commercial cultivation of genetically modified (GM) plants, according to this report.  [More]

GM Maize for Local (Kenya) Trials by 2010 -- Daily Nation (7/1/2009) Kenya will soon start confined field trials of a drought-tolerant genetically modified (GM) maize variety, in a project spearheaded by Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), this press release reports.  [More]

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