FAO Report Promotes Biotechnology as Key Tool in Facing Climate Change |
 The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) released its annual report on The State of Food and Agriculture focusing on impacts of climate change on agriculture and the implications for food security. According to the report, there is an urgent need to support smallholders in adapting to climate change. Farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk and community foresters are dependent on tasks that involve climate and at the same time, these groups are also the most vulnerable to climate change. Thus, there is a greater need for access to technologies, markets, information, and credit for investment to adjust their production systems and practices to climate change.
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Genetically modified 
A team of Mexican researchers studied the agronomic and phenotypic characteristics of three genetically modified (GM) maize hybrids, two GM insect resistant herbicide-tolerant and one herbicide-tolerant, grown in five ecological regions of Mexico, between 2009 and 2013.
Scientists from Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University have developed a next-generation 
