Sentences with phrase «golden rice project»

Instead Syngenta, Gates and the Golden Rice project went straight to human feeding trials on Vit A deficient children in China, justifying this breach of ethics on «humanitarian» grounds.

There is of course a concerted black propaganda op being conducted against the environmental movement by the international corporate elite (for want of a better way of describing them), spearheaded by the most powerful of them all — the US «division», and it's been going on for some years now, and the Golden Rice project, so - called, has brought it to a crecendo, as it was designed to do.

In an exclusive interview at IRRI in Los Baños, I spoke to the golden rice project senior manager Raul Boncodin, who personally witnessed the attack on the morning of Aug. 9....

Greenpeace has said the golden rice project is an attempt at finding a poster boy for the GM cause and says it opposes all releases of GM technology into the environment.

He says his relationship with GRHM is «informal», having known Dr Ingo Potrykus - described as the «engine behind» GRHM and the golden rice project - for more than 10 years.

«No farmer must be left behind — this adds all the more to our resolve to continue the research on Golden Rice, a potential new food - based approach to help fight VAD, a form of hidden hunger,» said Dr. Violeta Villegas, Golden Rice project coordinator.

The Golden Rice project was never a commercial one.

But Adrian Dubock, who was not directly involved in the work but who is a Switzerland - based manager for the Golden Rice Project, which promotes the development of the engineered crop, believes most of the charges to be baseless.

«I'm absolutely delighted, and I think it's a very compelling story,» says Drake, whose team developed the new strain for the Humanitarian Rice Board which runs the golden rice project at the University of Freiburg in Germany.

But Jorge Mayer, golden rice project manager in Freiburg, is even more upbeat, saying the rice might now contain enough to supply the entire recommended daily intake.

In an exclusive interview at IRRI in Los Baños, I spoke to the golden rice project senior manager Raul Boncodin, who personally witnessed the attack on the morning of Aug. 8.

«I'm absolutely delighted, and I think it's a very compelling story,» says Drake, whose team developed the new strain for the Humanitarian Rice Board which runs the golden rice project at the University of Freiburg in Germany.

Gerard was IRRI's Golden Rice project leader and Golden Rice Network Coordinator.

Although none of the participating organizations in the Golden Rice project coordinated by IRRI were involved in this new study, the results provide additional evidence that Golden Rice may help improve Vitamin A status among children.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation first supported the Golden Rice project through the Grand Challenges in Human Health initiative.

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is working with a range of other organizations and individuals on the Golden Rice project.

Here are answers to common questions about Golden Rice and the Golden Rice project coordinated by IRRI.

Despite vandalism in one of the five multilocation field trials in August this year, data are being readied for submission to government regulators who will review Golden Rice against international standards for biosafety, according to Antonio Alfonso, coordinator of the biotechnology program of the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) and leader of the Golden Rice project at the DA - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRice).

These field trials form part of the Golden Rice project that the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is working on together with other leading nutrition and agricultural research organizations to develop and evaluate Golden Rice as a potential new way to reduce vitamin A deficiency in the Philippines.

The Golden Rice project is hauntingly similar to Dengvaxia as the target sectors are our children.

The Golden Rice project, however, is fraught with problems.

Barry leads the Golden Rice projects in the Philippines, Bangladesh, Indonesia and India.

Not exact matches

MASIPAG however, believes that Golden Rice is only intended to project a clean and wholesome image for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and make it acceptable, since Golden Rice is aimed for so - called «humanitarian purposes.»

While our current project is looking at developing and evaluating Golden Rice for the Philippines and Bangladesh — two countries that suffer horribly from vitamin A deficiency — Golden Rice has potential to help beyond these countries in the future too.

Golden Rice has gone through all safety evaluations that have been appropriate and required at each stage of our project.

This project pulls together a mix of partners with different agricultural and nutritional expertise that will help us evaluate Golden Rice — an essential part of the process that will provide data to national regulatory authorities in their assessment of this new rRice — an essential part of the process that will provide data to national regulatory authorities in their assessment of this new ricerice.

In February, two major stories about Golden Rice appeared in The Guardian and Project Syndicate, sparking a number of other articles.

Over the past several years, I've been working with our project team to develop and evaluate Golden Rice varieties for farmers and consumers in the Philippines that could help reduce vitamin A deficiency.

The research, Marker - Aided Transfer of Beta - Carotene Biosynthetic Genes (Golden Rice I) into two Philippine Rice Varieties, was presented by Dr. Antonio Alfonso, project leader and the paper's main author.

For example, two years ago, when we first began identifying potential sites around the Philippines for our multi-location field trials of Golden Rice varieties, one of our considerations was that the local government units and other community leaders should be well - informed and interested in the project and willing to support the conduct of the trials.

For this, we can thank the inventors of Golden Rice and others who have donated intellectual property and supported the project financially.

This project will also generate and collect safety information related to Golden Rice for submission to regulators as early as 2013 in the Philippines and 2015 in Bangladesh.

Our project to develop and evaluate Golden Rice in the Philippines and Bangladesh hopes to build on this knowledge in the future to evaluate whether daily consumption of Golden Rice improves vitamin A status.

A new partner from the nutrition sector, Helen Keller International (HKI) has recently joined the project to evaluate whether Golden Rice will actually improve vitamin A status.

He led the work of IRRI and other partners to develop and evaluate Golden Rice as a potential way to address vitamin A deficiency through projects in the Philippines and Bangladesh and for Indonesia.

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Using a conversion factor in which 3.8 μg Golden Rice β - carotene provides 1 μg retinol, along with the level of Golden Rice β - carotene being 20 — 30 μg / g uncooked rice, we project that 100 g uncooked rice provides 500 — 800 μg retiRice β - carotene provides 1 μg retinol, along with the level of Golden Rice β - carotene being 20 — 30 μg / g uncooked rice, we project that 100 g uncooked rice provides 500 — 800 μg retiRice β - carotene being 20 — 30 μg / g uncooked rice, we project that 100 g uncooked rice provides 500 — 800 μg retirice, we project that 100 g uncooked rice provides 500 — 800 μg retirice provides 500 — 800 μg retinol.

The project's scientists are reluctant to battle Greenpeace directly over golden rice before results of their research come in.

Bouis was thrilled at the potential of Golden Rice, but its success seemed to make his own project a lost cause.

«The reality is that golden rice is a research project.