A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reports engineered microorganisms that can generate sustainable biofuel from carbon dioxide emissions. The technology being developed by Greg Stephanopoulos's group turns industrial waste gases, like carbon dioxide, into fuel.

To 'insulate' the local rice market from rice imports, the Philippines maintains government quotas on them, a measure discouraged under the international trade agreements with the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). By June 2017, the country's quantitative restriction (QR) on rice imports will be lifted.

The Global Soil Partnership (GSP) endorsed a set of voluntary guidelines for sustainable soil management at its plenary conference at FAO this week, marking a step towards coordinated action to assure that the earth under our feet - a keystone of global food security - remains fertile.

Research work led by Santiago Costantino from Université de Montréal, Dr. Claudia Kleinman of the Jewish General Hospital and McGill University, and a team of collaborators, has successfully developed Cell Labeling via Photobleaching (CLaP), a method that enables instant, specific labeling of individual cells. This will become a vital ally in a range of scientific research

FAO 26 May 2016, Rome -- Lovers of peas, pinto beans, lentils and their leguminous cousins can now boost their appetites and cooking skills thanks to a colorful new book featuring recipes from international top chefs passionate about one of the world’s most versatile super foods: pulses.

A new technique developed by scientists from Salk Institute to rapidly map regions of DNA targeted by regulatory proteins could provide insight into what makes some plants drought tolerant or disease resistant. Revealing this landscape of protein-binding zones on DNA

University of Guelph researchers had an almost accidental discovery that could transform food and biofuel production and increase carbon capture on farmland. The team found that by tweaking a plant's genetic profile, plant growth and seed production increased by more than 400 percent. They studied Arabidopsis and found that inserting a particular corn enzyme caused the plant's growth rate to skyrocket.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have begun providing seeds, hand tools and food to nearly 50,000 hungry farming families for this planting season in the most food-insecure areas of the Central African Republic (CAR). It coincides with the height of the lean season when household food stocks are typically lowest.

Researchers from the University of Nigeria conducted a study to identify  the level of awareness on genetically modified food of food consumers in Enugu, Nigeria. Enugu is an ancient coal-city of great political, commercial and socio-economic importance.

Honorable Minister of Agriculture Matia Chowdhury inaugurated the seminar on "20th anniversary of the global commercialization of biotech crops and biotech crop highlights in 2015" at the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council in Dhaka, Bangladesh on May 12, 2016. During the seminar, Minister Chowdhury emphasized the need for scientific innovations and collaborations to improve food production and poverty alleviation in Bangladesh.