About

Mission

Biofortified is a group website devoted to providing factual information and fostering discussion about agriculture, especially plant genetics and genetic engineering.

Authors

The site is written by grad students, professors, and the occasional guest expert. See the Authors page for more information. The next author could be you!

Comment Policy

We encourage discussion in the comments section below each post. Comments that are civil are most likely to foster meaningful discussion, so we ask you to refrain from being rude when commenting, no matter whether you agree or disagree with the authors. The only comments that will be moderated are those that include profanities, threaten others, are illegal, or engage in trolling (deliberate antagonization of authors or other commenters).

Comment authors are ultimately responsible for the content of their own contributions.

Quoting other articles can be very useful to get a point across, and is encouraged. In the interest of preventing clutter, we ask that comment authors link to those articles, rather than pasting the entire article in the comments. Comments are for posting your thoughts, not pasting others!

Disclaimer

None of the opinions expressed on this website necessarily reflect the opinions of the employers of the authors. Opinions of one author may not necessarily be shared by any other authors. Our opinions are ours alone.

Funding

Biofortified is independently run on a volunteer basis, and is not supported by any funding from any companies or government entities. While site hosting costs were initially footed by the founding members, these costs are now covered by a Changemakers grant awarded to Biofortified for winning the Ashoka Changemakers GMO Risk or Rescue contest.

License

All material on this site is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License, unless otherwise stated.