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Welcome to the saga of Golden Rice. Annually, roughly 250,000-500,000 children in Southeast Asia and Africa go from blindness to death caused by vitamin A deficiency (VAD).

Golden rice terraces in Ha Giang remain untouched after the storm. The rice season in Na Mau village viewed from above. While terraced fields in some areas are just turning yellow or still green, the ...

Back in August, some Filipino "farmers" rampaged through the fields where the non-profit International Rice Research institute was growing out the Golden Rice variety.

Controversy continues to surround the development of genetically engineered "golden rice" designed to combat vitamin A deficiency. After talks with Greenpeace at the headquarters of the International ...

Golden Rice field trials are currently being carried out in the Philippines under the auspices of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), together with PhilRice, the local research body.

Officials announced the news on October 9; field tests will begin in November. Golden Rice has taken a long and arduous path, despite its potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives each year. It ...

But nearly 20 years later, only Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States—whose populations already have adequate levels of vitamin A in their diets—have allowed the release of this rice.