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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…

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Having studied, written on and engaged in public discussion about transnational corporations (TNCs), I have reached the conclusion that we are not collectively equipped to think about the kind of power that they represent, the silent way they exercise their specific form of sovereignty and the numerous mechanisms that allow…

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Photograph Source: Abhishek Srivastava – CC BY 2.0 In the early 2000s, genetically modified (GM) Bt insecticidal cotton was being heavily promoted in India on the basis that it would cut pesticide use dramatically, boost yields and contribute to the financial well-being of farmers. Private sector Bt cotton hybrids now cover…

 It’s good to touch the green green grass of home, as Tom Jones sings, though maybe not the artificial grass that was invented in the same decade as that song was written. Originally known as ChemGrass it was invented by Donald Elbert, James Farai and Robert Wright, who worked in…