Farming has become a challenge to smallholder farmers in many parts of the country. This is due to unpredictable weather and inaccessible climate-smart farm input. In recent months, climate ...

Brandon McFadden, Tyson Endowed Chair in Food Policy Economics for the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, was the lead author of a study on consumer perceptions of gene editing in agricultural ...

The more that people know about gene editing, the more likely they are to feel it is safe to use in agriculture and medicine, according to a survey of more than 4,500 people across the United States.

Since its introduction in 2012, CRISPR-based genetic engineering technology has transformed biotechnology and opened new possibilities in biomedicine. Currently, CRISPR is driving development in yet ...

President Joe Biden is looking in another direction to steer agriculture’s boat. The key word here is biotechnology. And President Biden is all for it. In fact, he goes so far as to say it should be ...

Director General of National Biotechnology Research and Development Agency (NBRDA), Prof Abdullahi Mustapha, has said the benefits of biotechnology are vast and profound. Mustapha spoke yesterday in ...

Agricultural biotechnology harnesses the tools of molecular biology, genetics and microbiology to develop crops and farming systems that are more productive, resilient and sustainable. Central ...

An agriculture and biotechnology expert, Imole Okuntimo, has called for the integration of Nigeria’s agricultural sector with vaccine production systems, stressing that such synergy could strengthen ...

Have you ever wondered where our agricultural crops come from? And what were they like thousands of years ago, or hundreds of years ago? Our food crops today are in fact very different from the ...

Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation officials inspect Genetically Modified cassava at their Mtwapa station in September last year. Such crops are better suited to fight common ...

Popularly known as agritech, biotechnology is the practice of using scientific techniques and tools such as genetic engineering to change and improve plant and animal productivity. It entails ...

Suggested Citation: "1 Introduction and Context." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Preparing for Future Products of Biotechnology. Washington, DC: The National ...