Viewpoint: Land sharing vs land sparing — The UK needs to reevaluate farmland use in order to reach climate and biodiversity goals

Viewpoint: Land sharing vs land sparing — The UK needs to reevaluate farmland use in order to reach climate and biodiversity goals

Genetic Literacy Project | 
It is 12 months since I highlighted the scientific evidence pointing to the urgent need to take forward a land sparing ...
Regulatory inconsistency and the precautionary principle: Why the European Court ruling limiting neonicotinoid pesticide use is misguided

Regulatory inconsistency and the precautionary principle: Why the European Court ruling limiting neonicotinoid pesticide use is misguided

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Important questions loom, now that European sugar beet and oilseed rape farmers face a potential ban on the use of ...
Taking as many as 209 million cars off the road: How genetically modified (GM) crops have reduced global agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions

Taking as many as 209 million cars off the road: How genetically modified (GM) crops have reduced global agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions

Crop biotechnology has significantly reduced agriculture’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by helping farmers adopt more sustainable practices such as reduced ...
Genetically modified crops and sustainability: 25 years since their widespread introduction, yields are higher and the environmental footprint is smaller

Genetically modified crops and sustainability: 25 years since their widespread introduction, yields are higher and the environmental footprint is smaller

Genetically modified (GM) crops have increased global food, feed and fiber production by nearly 1 billion tonnes (1 tonne equals ...
Viewpoint: Mandatory labeling of crop biotechnology-derived foods is a failed regulatory policy. Here’s why

Viewpoint: Mandatory labeling of crop biotechnology-derived foods is a failed regulatory policy. Here’s why

Proponents of mandatory labeling of foods containing or derived from genetically modified (GM) crops have long claimed that their primary ...
Study: $261 billion — That’s how much GMO crops have boosted farmers’ incomes

Study: $261 billion — That’s how much GMO crops have boosted farmers’ incomes

Taylor & Francis Online | 
This paper updates previous estimates for the global value of using genetically modified (GM) crop technology in agriculture at the ...
Viewpoint: Europe’s double standard—politicians celebrate genetically engineered COVID vaccines, but prohibit use of GM crops

Viewpoint: Europe’s double standard—politicians celebrate genetically engineered COVID vaccines, but prohibit use of GM crops

Farm Bureau | 
“These are fantastic results,” UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson enthused, as politicians across Europe queued up to praise [COVID vaccine] ...
Viewpoint: Politics and science in Europe: How the development of COVID-19 vaccines highlights ideological inconsistency and hypocrisy

Viewpoint: Politics and science in Europe: How the development of COVID-19 vaccines highlights ideological inconsistency and hypocrisy

Genetic Literacy Project | 
The announcement that Astra-Zeneca, a British-Swedish biopharmaceutical company, had developed the third coronavirus vaccine to show promise in Phase III ...
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GM insect-resistant Bt corn boosts crop yields over 30%, cuts insecticide use 78% in Vietnam, study finds

GM Crops and Food | 
This study assessed the farm-level economic and environmental impacts from the use of genetically modified (GM) corn in Vietnam (resistant ...
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Why grow GMOs? Over 23 years, biotech crops boosted farm income $225 billion, cut pesticide use and slashed carbon emissions

Farmers who grow biotech crops have earned an additional $225 billion and greatly reduced agriculture's contribution to climate change, according ...
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GMO cotton, corn have increased farmer incomes in Colombia more than $300 million since 2003

GM Crops and Food | 
This study assesses the economic and environmental impacts that have arisen from the adoption and use of genetically modified (GM) ...
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Without glyphosate, farmers in seven Asian countries face $1.4-$1.9 billion increase in weed control costs, study finds

PG Economics | 
A new paper published in the journal Agbioforum points to higher weed control costs, less effective weed control, more difficult access ...
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Post-Brexit, UK should abandon EU’s misguided biotech crop rules, researcher urges

PG Economics | 
Failure to diverge from some aspects of EU regulation of crop biotechnology and new breeding techniques (NBTs) after Brexit will ...
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Growing GMO soybeans in South America cut greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to removing 3.3 million cars from the road

GM Crops and Food | 
This study assesses the economic and environmental impacts that have arisen from the adoption and use of genetically modified (GM) ...
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GMO crops provide billions in economic benefits each year—with majority going to farmers in developing countries, industry analysis says

PG Economics | 
This paper estimates the value of using genetically modified (GM) crop technology in agriculture at the farm level. It follows ...
Global glyphosate herbicide ban would cause substantial damage to economy and environment, study shows

Global glyphosate herbicide ban would cause substantial damage to economy and environment, study shows

Genetic Literacy Project | 
A new study finds that a ban on glyphosate would cause billions of dollars in economic losses and increase the ...
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Podcast: Global ag biotech snapshot: Is GMO adoption on the decline?

Genetic Literacy Project | 
UK researcher Graham Brooke on the rising economic and regulatory costs of crop biortechnology--Is it worth it? ...
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Why Danny Hakim’s New York Times GMO exposé misleads

Genetic Literacy Project | 
An agricultural economist analyzes the New York Times' takedown of GMO crops ...

Labeling GMOs not equivalent to nutritional labels, will be costly

Forbes | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the fight over ...

Herbicide-tolerant crops still need diverse weed management

GM Crops & Food | 
Crops that have been genetically modified (GM) to be tolerant to herbicides have been widely grown in the U.S. since ...
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Viewpoint: Debunking ‘the big lie’ about genetically engineered crops

Genetic Literacy Project | 
This article originally ran at Forbes and has been republished here with permission of the author. In spite of two ...

Groundbreaking tech — including GM — smothered by anti-technology ideologues

Forbes | 
The following is an excerpt Groundbreaking new technologies commonly face intractable opposition from various quarters–often from vested interests or societal ...

GM reactionaries deny science

Project Syndicate | 
The following is an excerpt: After the cultivation of more than a billion hectares of GM crops worldwide – and ...
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