The adoption of GM crops in Brazil has led to an increase in pesticide use with possible increases in environmental and human exposure and associated negative impacts. […]
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The organic sector reaffirms its commitment to effectively exclude GMOs from its productions systems and urges policy makers to regulate the use of GMOs obtained by new techniques. […] The Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board recommends a moratorium on the use of gene drives until international regulations for handling and risk assessment are in place. […] Two journal articles spell out why current CRISPR-based gene drives are too risky for field and even lab experimentation because they are remarkably aggressive and are likely to spread to most populations of the target species throughout the world. […] Key recommendations to end hunger and malnutrition by 2030: promote agroecology as the main food system, promote women’s empowerment and right to land, regulate agri-food transnational corporations, and democratise food systems governance. […] New peer-reviewed data has shown how two Cry-toxins acted in combination and that the same Cry-toxins showed combinatorial effects when co-exposed with Roundup. EFSA dismissal of such research exposes the weaknesses in their risk assessment processes. […] 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. […] 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. […] |
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