Agroforestry is the integration of trees with productive farming. Last year, many smallscale Midwestern farmers reported poor yields and, in some cases, a complete lack of yields due to the severe drought(3). If they had grown their crops using an agroforestry framework, then they could have prevented some of those losses.
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Coexistence between GMO and organic crops – a graphic representation.
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Most relevant to the new findings of Zhang’s team is an experiment in gene therapy using a precursor of miRNA. It turned out to have so many off-target effects that it killed more than 150 of the experimental mice.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office which has handed corporations intellectual property monopolies over everything ranging from human genes to animals and seeds…Fortunately, things are beginning to shift. Earlier this week, a federal judge struck down patents on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.