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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 US Agency for International Development.

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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The Race to Make Fuel Out of Algae Poses Risks as Well as Benefits -- E&E Publishing (7/28/2010) U.S. researchers are searching for the ideal oil-producing algae strain to grow in commercial quantities, and some of the varieties under development are genetically modified (GM), this article reports.  [More]

Minister Launches £4.9m Oats Study -- Aberystwyth University (7/28/2010) A five-year, £4.9 million (US$7.6 million) research project has been launched in the U.K., with the goal of developing improved varieties of oats.  [More]

Active Progress in Transgenic Technology Research and Application in China -- Administrative Office for the Key Special Projects of GMOs via Ministry of Agriculture (7/27/2010) This press release describes China's key special project for the development of new genetically modified organisms (GMOs).  [More]

Will Science-Phobia Kill the Green Revolution? -- Huffington Post (7/27/2010) "Unfortunately, the world's poor are often caught in the middle of a ferocious but under-the-radar war over the future of world agriculture and the fate of the malnourished," says this opinion piece.  [More]

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