The debate over GMOs has intensified amid fears over growing food insecurity in Nigeria. On Wednesday, the UN World Food Program said that the country was facing "an unprecedented hunger crisis," with ...

The group flagged concerns over allergenicity, potential gene flow to wild cowpea species, and a lack of long-term studies on the stability of Bt protein in local conditions.Civil society groups like ...

An organic seed company was distressed to learn it had marketed a GMO purple tomato by mistake. The incident raised alarm about the impact of new GMO plants.

In Australia, the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator regulates GMOs. It has approved four GMO crops for cultivation: cotton, canola, safflower and Indian mustard.

The claim: GMO food changes people’s genes A March 29 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a screenshot of a news release about testimony heard by the Missouri House of ...

While GMO foods have stirred controversy in the past, the FDA says they’re carefully studied before being sold to the public and are as healthy and safe as their non-GMO counterparts.

Despite official wariness over GMO crops, there is huge demand for hardier, high-yield grains. In China's breadbasket in the northeast, illegally sown GM corn makes up about 70% of the acreage ...

The European Commission proposed revising its rules on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on Wednesday to loosen some restrictions for plants resulting from newer gene-editing technology.