Labels on bags of snack foods indicate they are non-GMO food products, in Los Angeles, California, October 19, 2012. California could become the first US state to enforce labeling of genetically ...

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) is an indigenous and staple crop in sub-Saharan Africa, but it has an enemy: an insect called the legume pod borer (Maruca vitrata). This pest can cause yield losses of more ...

Genetically engineered crops may be doing more than increasing farm productivity. A new study suggests they could also be helping US agriculture cope with some of the pressures created by climate ...

Thanks to our now-globalized food system, many of us in the Western world take for granted that we can stroll into a supermarket and purchase anything from asparagus to cinnamon rolls to ...

This consensus report examines a range of questions and opinions about the economic, agronomic, health, safety, or other effects of genetically engineered (GE) crops and food. Claims and research that ...

Farmers in dozens of countries have embraced crops genetically engineered to produce proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) bacteria that kill some key pests yet are safe for people and wildlife.

Some say pesticide use will decrease, while others say it will actually increase. Hearing both sides makes it difficult to ...

Farmers have been trying to minimize the impacts of crop pests for thousands of years. Insects, nematodes, bacteria, fungi, and viruses can cause massive destruction of important crops, and this ...