A court in the Philippines has sided with green campaigners and banned a genetically modified (GMO) rice variety that the government ... Three years ago, the rice-dependent nation became the first to ...

Golden rice has the potential to solve this problem ... Farmers around the world have grown billions of acres of GM crops safely. They are the ingredients in food that people have eaten every ...

Golden Rice is a genetically engineered crop, biofortified with beta-carotene (the precursor to Vitamin A) with the humanitarian objective to reduce Vitamin A deficiency (VAD). It is a controversial ...

Some of the disadvantages of golden rice are: fears that it will crossbreed with and contaminate wild rice worries that GM organisms might harm people beta carotene levels aren't high enough to ...

Golden Rice is partly genetically modified with protein from maize to generate beta-carotene for added vitamin A, and was approved for cultivation in 2021. A court implemented the ban based on the ...

Despite solidifying its position as a leader in biotechnology in Southeast Asia, regulatory hurdles stemming from legal woes ...