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MEDIA RELEASE: Clive James� seminar on 2012 global status of biotech crops gathered Philippine stakeholders

More than a hundred members of the Philippine scientific and academic community, government agencies, regulators, farmers, private sector, media, and other stakeholders took part in a Special Seminar and Media Conference on the Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops in 2012.

PHILIPPINES: The Evolution Of A Scientist

MANILA, Philippines --- The number of Filipinos in the scientific community remains very small. �All the more in the plant evolution community,� Dr. Michael Purugganan revealed. �I think the reason the Filipino scientific community is small is because we don�t see it as a good career path.

PHILIPPINES: Filipinos switch to gene-altered corn

Each and every year, biotech yellow corn has increased the income of farmers by $264.5 million in the eight years up to 2011 and since the crop was first planted in the Philippines in 2003.

PHILIPPINES: Return on investments

Biotech crops not only bring food on the table.

PHILIPPINES: 3-in-1 rice

New biotech crop products are being developed by national and international research institutes.

PHILIPPINES: Biotech crops benefit farmers more, advocate says

THE bottom line for farmers worldwide is the pocketbook, and this is the reason they are opting for biotech crops than traditional varieties, Dr. Clive James, founder and chairman of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), said.

PHILIPPINES: Patent issues don�t cover biotech corn

Corn seed is not ideal for replanting, so patent concerns over re-using corn seeds is not an issue in the Philippines.

PHILIPPINES: Biotech, consumer needs, drive global agri R&D

Private initiatives are behind major innovations in food and agriculture.

VIETNAM: GM crops to cut hunger, poverty

HA NOI, March (PNA/VNS) -- Viet Nam has the potential to develop crop biotechnology to help ensure food security, says Nguyen Van Tuat, deputy director of Viet Nam Academy for Agricultural Sciences.

CHINA: China delays GMO corn, rice to woo the public

BEIJING - China has delayed the introduction of genetically-modified rice and corn as it tries to head off public fears, leading government scientists said on Thursday.

INDIA: Agricultural biotechnology is the need of the hour

The success of Bt cotton has set an excellent example in the past decade as to how GM technology can turn around our agriculture sector.

Africa: Nigeria: Biotechnology Will Help Improve Yield Varieties - Kebbi Varsity VC

Sokoto � Vice Chancellor of Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero, Prof. Abdullahi Zuru, has said that the application of Biotechnology on agriculture would help in tackling the challenge of shrinking resources through improved yield varieties.

GLOBAL: GM crops defended

PROFESSOR Wayne Parrott says those who oppose crop-biotechnology based on anti-science views should spend a day living in impoverished countries and experience first-hand what impact their activism is having on lives.

GLOBAL: How Genetically-Modified Crops Can Save Hundreds of Thousands from Malnutrition

After Controversy, GM Rice and Yams Will Finally Reach Rural Poor

GLOBAL: Crop biotechnology: A �continuing success� globally

CROP biotechnology has been achieving �continuing success� globally as the number of farmers who use it and the farms planted to biotech crops are increasing, recording 17.3 million farmers who planted the crops in 170.3 hectares in 28 countries in 2012, Dr. Clive James, chairman of the board of directors of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), said on Thursday.