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Ever wonder what the heck people mean when they say we need a “Second Green Revolution” or a “Greener Revolution”? There is a unique opportunity to find out! Green Revolution 2.0: Food + Energy and Environmental Security was the theme of this year’s ASA, CSSA, and SSSA 2010 International Annual Meetings that took place 31 October to 4 Novermber this year in Long Beach, CA. ASA is the American Society of Agronomy, CSSA is  Anonymity allows folks to escape the flak for some of the ugly and prejudiced things they say – and which flout the standards for what our society considers decent and civil. For whatever reasons, this column seems to be a lightning rod for that sort of demagoguery. But there is a relatively simple solution: Requiring people to use their real names when they comment. From now on, that will For most conferences, once the attendees head home the action is over. There isn’t much collaboration or communication until the next conference. Happily, this isn’t the case for the Global Conference on Biofortification. Check out the conference blog for an opportunity to share your ideas on the “Proposed Framework for Biofortification“. Just leave a reply on the blog no later than December 15. Continue reading… There are two very different webcasts that might be of interest to Biofortified readers happening tonight. How do we Feed the Planet? Global Food Security and the Next Century This webcast is the culmination of a semester’s work by freshmen in an MIT class titled Solving Complex Problems. Thanks to Sara Kaplan, a colleague in Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State, for sharing this opportunity. Sara is a mentor for the students in this class. |
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Watch out for facts!
Sometimes I get the feeling that I’m in a loosing battle. I have so much peer-reviewed, confirmed, substantiated information about biotechnology, but this information can not be easily compacted into a soundbite. The impact of all this information is not as great as a single picture of a needle sticking a tomato. It doesn’t matter whether the terminator gene has never been used, even Ben Goldacre wrote about it in a way that implied
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