LOS BAÑOS, Laguna, Philippines – Don’t look now, but genetically modified (GM) crops, when made into biofuel, could considerably help reduce vehicle-generated pollution in traffic-congested urban ...

FORMER agriculture secretary William Dar has been appointed the chairman of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (Isaaa), a nonprofit organization disseminating ...

The next decade is set to see a global doubling in biotech crop availability, as countries become increasingly less skeptical of the technology after witnessing its benefits over the past ten years, ...

* ISAAA expects the number of biotech farmers globally to reach 20 million or more in 40 countries on 200 million hectares within five in 2015. 1.5 billion hectares of crop land are in use today for ...

Davao City—A Singapore-based agri-genomics firm that has developed a proprietary genomics technology platform has launched the world’s first climate-resilient strawberry, according to a scientific ...

In Photo: A cornfield in General Santos is seen in this file photo. THE International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) has warned that the proliferation of counterfeit ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil has expanded the area cultivated with genetically modified (GM) crops by 1.1 million hectares as farmers seek to boost output and yields in one of the world's largest ...

THE annual global summary of the area of genetically modified crops grown in the UK has been exaggerated more than fourfold by the organisation that promotes the GM industry, it has been claimed. THE ...

The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) has released research revealing that in 2005 biotech farming grew at its lowest rate in ten years. However, the ...

THE Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (Searca) has renewed its 20-year partnership with the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech ...