Rice is a daily dietary staple for roughly half of humanity, including a disproportionate number of the poorest people on Earth. Unfortunately, while rice is rich in carbohydrates, it's a poor source ...

After decades in development, the Philippines became the first country on July 21st of this year to formally approve the commercial propagation of so-called golden rice. This is a rice strain that has ...

I’ve eaten golden rice and I hope to eat it again—even though a group of judges here in the Philippines just banned its cultivation. The bad news came on April 17, when a court of appeals revoked a ...

Heralded as a genetically modified crop with the potential to save millions of lives, Golden Rice has just been approved as safe for human and animal consumption by regulators in the Philippines. The ...

AFTER a regulatory approval process lasting two years, Bangladesh is expected to soon green-light the cultivation of “golden rice” genetically modified to prevent vitamin A deficiencies. It would be ...

20 years ago, Time Magazine put a goateed man and some plants on its cover, declaring a breed of rice would save the world’s children. The claim didn’t age well. In the years since, that crop, named ...

My mom always “accidentally” makes too much rice so she can turn it into golden fried rice the next day. The rice gets its signature golden hue from lots of eggs. My mom’s secret? She separates the ...

In my recent radio conversation with John Batchelor (CBS Eye on the World), we delved into the sad saga of Golden Rice — a revolutionary crop engineered to combat Vitamin A deficiency, a condition ...

Vitamin A deficiency is the No. 1 cause of preventable blindness in children, and it has also contributed to the deaths of millions of children in the developing world. So when a published study finds ...