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FILE PHOTO: Monsanto is displayed on a screen where the stock is traded on the floor of the NYSEBy Mayank BhardwajNEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has axed the royalties that local seed companies pay to German drugmaker Bayer AG for Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) cotton, a government order said, after…

Subscribe to the FREE #1 Natural Health Newsletter It may sound like a “Mission Impossible” movie plot but, in reality, truth again proves stranger than fiction, with the arrests of two Chinese nationals and a Harvard professor, all charged with espionage, theft of trade secrets and hacking. The U.S. Department…

Multiple groups on Friday sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its decision to re-approve a chemical used in Bayer's Roundup weed killer.The agency re-approved the chemical, known as glyphosate, in January, claiming that it doesn’t pose a danger to humans. Thousands of lawsuits, however, have attributed cancer to Roundup.One lawsuit against the EPA was…

Ep. 317: Rachel Hepworth is VP of Marketing @ Pilot, the startup that offers the best bookkeeping, tax and CFO services for growing businesses. To date they have raised over $58M from some of the best in the business including Index Ventures, John Collison, Paul English, Drew Houston, Frederic Kerrest,…

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Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Jing Wang,  Huanhuan Ma,  Shan Zhao,  Jianlei Huang,  Yihua Yang,  Bruce E. Tabashnik,  Yidong Wu x Published: March 19, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008427 AbstractEvolution of pest resistance reduces the efficacy of insecticidal proteins from the gram-positive bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) used widely in sprays and…

On March 11th, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the ongoing outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to be a global pandemic, the first since the H1N1 swine flu in 2009. Initially reported in the city of Wuhan in Central China in December, just four months later there are…

Selection of images from “The Ache for Home” by Selma Fernandez Richter. Founder: Selma Fernandez Richter Heidi: What in your background led you to creating workshops?Selma:I have been a photographer since 2001. I started my career en Monterrey, Mexico, where I attended college, primarily working on editorial projects for magazines.…

Sakunda Holdings says it helped to facilitate Command Agriculture by structuring financing facilities to pay inputs suppliers. The company's chief operating officer Charles Chitambo, told the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Accounts yesterday that they used the Treasury Bills (TBs) received from Government to structure financing facilities for the programme…

Prosecutors, regulators, investors, and the media are increasingly holding directors and officers accountable, while special interest groups, plaintiffs’ lawyers, and activist hedge funds are constantly looking for their next targets. This new reality requires directors to be aggressive in overseeing legal, ethical, and reputational risks that, in many cases, prior…