Genetically modified crops can help cut carbon emissions, research shows — but they still face major hurdles.
The Philippines Department of Agriculture has a vision: to become the first country to allow the commercial production of golden rice, a 20-year-old genetically modified crop that could prevent hundreds of thousands of cases of childhood blindness around the world.
But the country’s appeals court came to a very different decision last month. The court banned cultivating the crop, named for the yellow color that comes from the addition of Vitamin A, as well as a genetically modified eggplant.