A genetically modified onion trial will go ahead in NZ after gaining approval from the Environmental Risk Management Authority.
NZ's newest crown research organisation, the NZ Institute for Plant and Food Research, has opened its doors for business.
Australia should accept that genetically modified (GM) crops will be crucial in addressing the world food crisis, federal Agriculture Minister Tony Burke said.
Drought in Australia's main food growing region of the Murray-Darling river system has worsened, with water inflows over the past two years at an all-time low, the government's top water official has said.
Police and security guards provided heavy security at this week's controversial hearing in Christchurch, NZ, into Crop and Food Research's bid to conduct a 10-year field trial of genetically modified vegetables.
An Australian decision to ban imports of tamarillos from New Zealand has angered farmers across the Tasman.
Climate change could lead to "killer cornflakes" with the cereal carrying the most potent liver toxin ever recorded, an environmental health conference has been told, according to an AAP report.
Australia, which will export barely one-tenth of its usual average this year, has been blamed for contributing to global shortages and a more than doubling of the global rice price.
Goodman fielder has expressed serious concern over the lifting of the moratorium on growing genetically modified crops in Australia, despite the AFGC playing down the issue.
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