Bioeconomy opens up development opportunities for Latin America, but it also involves several risks, says Federico Vasen.

Kenya has bypassed its own biosafety watchdog in banning GM foods, which will stifle balanced debate of GM in Africa, says Linda Nordling.

Ten years after introducing a Biodiversity Act, India is yet to put it to serious use, say Shalini Bhutani and Kanchi Kohli.

S&T advances should safeguard health, equity and the rights of vulnerable populations, says rural development professional Bhavani R. V.

New research on public attitudes to science yields clues to communicating more effectively, says AAAS executive Alan Leshner.

South-East Asian nations should follow the Philippines down the path to biotech crops for food security, argues Crispin Maslog.

Feeding South-East Asia's rapidly growing population requires a second Green Revolution, says Crispin Maslog.

Farmers are more likely to use GM crops if they are involved in crop development in the right way, say Obidimma Ezezika and Justin Mabeya.

The scientific community should create new intergovernmental organisations that promote innovative science in Africa, says Calestous Juma.

Neither dispassionate information nor scare stories are the answer: we need public engagement on health interventions, argues Priya Shetty.

Nigeria must pass a biosafety law so the country's farmers can reap the benefits of GM technology, says Ademola A. Adenle.

With traditional food production under threat from climate change, we should switch from agriculture to cell culture, says Lucía Atehortúa.

A proposed GM policy sent to members of COMESA could make approval of GM crops much easier says an editorial in Nature.

Drought-tolerant crops could improve food security — if researchers take downstream adoption challenges seriously, says Travis Lybbert.

GM production is up, but that doesn't mean Latin Americans like or want it, say Luisa Massarani, Ildeu de Castro Moreira and Ana Maria Vara.

'Appropriate' technologies, no matter where they come from, are the key to improving agriculture, says development expert Sara Delaney.

New biofuels offer a sustainable source of energy but we must consider the ethical and social implications, say Joyce Tait and Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka.

Increasing production in mixed crop-livestock systems would improve food security, say M. Herrero and colleagues.

GM crops have been hailed as a 'pro-poor' technology, but the reality is much more complicated, says technology researcher Dominic Glover.