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Scholars and practitioners addressing the global food crisis have rarely incorporated perspectives from the world's religious traditions. This lacuna appears in multiple dimensions: until recently, environmentalists have tended to ignore food and agriculture; food justice advocates have focused on food quantities, rather than its method of production; and few scholars of religion have considered agriculture...
Researchers at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez (UPRM) have conducted an analysis of student needs and have identified strategies to respond to the General and STEM education challenges at UPRM. A Center for Resources in General Education (CIVIS) has been established to deal with these challenges by providing students and professors a new, integrated perspective (focused on General and STEM...
Ziel und Hintergrund Die Grüne Gentechnik (GGT) ist in Deutschland seit vielen Jahren eine gesellschaftlich stark umstrittene Technologie. Es existieren zahlreiche entgegen gesetzte Positionen, die mit zum Teil großer Härte und Unversöhnlichkeit aufeinander treffen. Wie umstritten diese Technologie wirklich ist, zeigte sich Mitte April dieses Jahres, als Agrarministerin Ilse Aigner den Anbau der Genmaissorte...
Because of objections and worries related to genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the approval of GMO crops is a long and expensive process. Recently some researchers argued that a specific form of genetic modification, cisgenesis, would be safer and ethically more acceptable and therefore require a less stringent assessment. In this paper cisgenesis, as defined in recent literature, is ethically...
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