There is ample evidence on the contribution of agricultural biodiversity to diverse, healthy diets; sustainability in agriculture; seed systems delivering crop diversity; and conserving agricultural biodiversity for use in sustainable food systems. […]
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There is a lack of empirical and comprehensive research on the socio-economic impacts of GM crops. The majority of published research has mainly focused on a restricted set of monetary economic parameters with serious shortcomings in the methodologies. […] By combining organic agriculture with eating less meat, cutting food waste by half, and fixing nitrogen in the soil instead of using fertilizer, the world could be fed sustainably without vastly increasing the amount of land under agricultural production. […] The herbicide glyphosate, N-(phosphonomethyl) glycine, has been used extensively in the past 40 years, under the assumption that side effects were minimal. However, in recent years, concerns have increased worldwide about the potential wide ranging direct and indirect health effects of the large scale use of glyphosate. […] This report makes a strong case for more investments in and support for small-scale sustainable agriculture in developing countries, which is recognised as the most efficient way to tackle hunger and poverty. […] This legal Note critiques the US FDA’s approval of AquAdvantage salmon for consumption, arguing that it did not properly vet the GE salmon, and had relied on inappropriate criteria in its approval. […] This declaration on the role of agroecology on the future of agriculture and the food system calls for the scaling up and scaling out of agroecology, as a countermovement based on food sovereignty, for the transformative reform of our food systems. […] A study analyzing global patterns of field-evolved resistance to Bt crops over the last two decades has found that the number of cases of pest resistance to Bt proteins increased from 3 in 2005 to 16 in 2016. […] This report shows the dramatic impacts of the global food system being rapidly monopolised by ever-fewer, ever-larger corporations. It also tracks agroecology initiatives around the world and gives examples of resistance to big agrifood. […] Recent research by Indian scientists has shown that introducing Golden Rice transgenes had severe and unexpected effects on plant growth and yields. […] |
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