RIPE field trials at the IGB BioEnergy Farm

Team members of the RIPE project transplanting seedlings for the 2016 field trials. RIPE is engineering crops that more efficiently turn the sun's energy into food. This project could increase yields by as much as 60% to help smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia feed their communities and provide for their families.

Kevin Cordoba, a second year higschool student eats organic rice for lunch before he goes to school. His family explains how tasteful organic rice are over commercially available ones.

© Greenpeace / Gigie Cruz-Sy

Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) is engineering plants to more efficiently turn the sun’s energy into food to sustainably increase worldwide food productivity. The international research project is funded by a $25 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Anti-GMO activists went around Quezon City, in Metro Manila to educate the Filipinos about the environmental and health hazards of Genetically Modified Organisms in solidarity to the Global Week of Action against GMOs organized by Occupy Monsanto. © Creng Nitafan

Members of a decontamination unit from environmental activist group Greenpeace remove genetically-engineered Bt talong (eggplant) from an experimental field trial site in Bay town in the province of Laguna, in an effort to contain contaminants, February 17, 2011.

© Veejay Villafranca / Greenpeace

RIPE field trials at the IGB BioEnergy Farm

Anti-GMO activists went around Quezon City, in Metro Manila to educate the Filipinos about the environmental and health hazards of Genetically Modified Organisms in solidarity to the Global Week of Action against GMOs organized by Occupy Monsanto. © Creng Nitafan

Members of a decontamination unit from environmental activist group Greenpeace bag genetically-engineered Bt talong (eggplant) from an experimental field trial site in Bay town in the province of Laguna, in an effort to contain contaminants, February 17, 2011.

© Veejay Villafranca / Greenpeace

Anti-GMO activists went around Quezon City, in Metro Manila to educate the Filipinos about the environmental and health hazards of Genetically Modified Organisms in solidarity to the Global Week of Action against GMOs organized by Occupy Monsanto. © Creng Nitafan

Greenpeace activists dressed as "GMO monster crops" are blocked by security from entering the Department of Agriculture. Greenpeace together with other concerned organizations are demanding the Philippine government to "stop GMO invasion" by cancelling all commercialization and field trials of genetically-modified organisms in the country.

The Department of Agriculture, responsible for regulating GMOs, has never denied approval for any GMO crop. Greenpeace contends that GMOs are dangerous to human health, biodiversity and farmers’ livelihoods.

© Luis Liwanag/Greenpeace

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Team members of the RIPE project transplanting seedlings for the 2016 field trials. RIPE is engineering crops that more efficiently turn the sun's energy into food. This project could increase yields by as much as 60% to help smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia feed their communities and provide for their families.

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A farmer carries a bunch of rice stalks for treshing as they maximise the good weather in Sitio Canaan, Barangay Crossing, Magallon, Negros Occidental.

© Greenpeace / Gigie Cruz-Sy

Greenpeace Campaigner Jai Krishna, explains about the proliferation of untested GM crops.

Documenting the impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda.

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RIPE field trials at the IGB BioEnergy Farm

Anti-GMO activists went around Quezon City, in Metro Manila to educate the Filipinos about the environmental and health hazards of Genetically Modified Organisms in solidarity to the Global Week of Action against GMOs organized by Occupy Monsanto. © Creng Nitafan

RIPE field trials at the IGB BioEnergy Farm

RIPE field trials at the IGB BioEnergy Farm

Workshop participants in Tissue Culture Lab. Beatriz Da Costa and Oron Catts are seated at the laminar flow hood.

A member of the Organic Farmers Cooperative in Malingin, Bago City processes organic fertilizers for selling and distribution. The 5-year old cooperative currently has 54 members.

© Greenpeace / Gigie Cruz-Sy

These rice seedlings are part of a transformation pipeline to test photosynthetic improvements that could increase the yields staple food crops.

Credit: Brian Stauffer/University of Illinois

Know your GMO. If you do not know what it is google it. Then maybe google Monsanto. If you have ever grown your own veggies or fruit you have seen and tasted the differance.

Documenting the impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda.

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Stitched and appliquéd knit top.

Making a home-brew laminar flow hood. We used a whole roll of duct tape. Tad Hirsch and Rich Pell are pictured here.

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