I’ve eaten golden rice and I hope ... time to move from successful field trials to complete commercialization. The early harvests grew only about 100 tons of rice—a tiny fraction of the ...

A global campaign that supports the genetically modified "golden rice" and promotes the cause for fighting child mortality entered Bangladesh yesterday as part of its three-nation Asia tour.

Neither Greenpeace nor the destruction of a test plot in the Philippines by ... they uprooted an experimental field of Golden Rice in Pili, Camarines Sur, where trials were taking place. By taking ...

Environmental campaigners opposed to golden rice have organised the destruction of experimental field trials on the grounds that the GM rice represents a high-tech “quick fix” to vitamin A ...

Most of the answers, as Ed Regis details in Golden Rice: The Imperiled Birth of a GMO Superfood, were practical if unimaginative: The idea was to make rice more resistant to drought, disease ...

and supported the criminal destruction of approved field trials and research projects.” In particular, the Nobel winners take issue with Greenpeace’s opposition to Golden Rice, a genetically ...

See All Key Ideas PALAWAN, Philippines — On Aug. 8, 2013, Fernando de Chavez, along with more than 400 farmers and advocates, stormed a Golden Rice field trial site in Pili, a town in Camarines ...

It is estimated to cause up to half a million deaths in childhood worldwide annually. Golden rice (GR), a genetically modified (GM) crop, is a public-sector product deliberately designed to add ...

Golden rice was developed over two decades by the Philippines-based International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice ...