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Rockefeller Foundation support for Golden Rice
After funding the development of Golden Rice, and seeing the 15-year-old project languish due to regulatory overkill, the Rockefeller Foundation says it will be providing funding to "shepherd Golden Rice through national, regulatory approval processes in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines". The announcement, made at this year's World Food Prize event, comes two months after Greenpeace warned those very same governments not to conduct field trials of this promising crop -- and Greenpeace has never quite promised not to destroy the field trials if they occur. More†
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