Genetically modified crops support climate change mitigation

Kovak, Emma; Blaustein-Rejto, Dan; Qaim, Matin

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2022.01.004

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“…This sustained improvement within their social group is also one of the major reasons that biotech corn adoption is a success story among these farmers. Third, the environmental aspect: since biotech crops such as biotech corn reduce pesticide application, this also significantly reduces GHG emissions, as evidenced in previous studies [37][38][39]. These benefits comprise the three pillars of sustainable agriculture.…”

Section: Farmers' Decision-making Process and Factors Affecting Farme...mentioning

confidence: 89%

Is Implementing a Biotech Ban Correct or Not? Analysis of Farmer Perceptions and Attitudes on the Philippine Supreme Court’s Ban on Biotech Crops

2022

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Several studies have explored the effects of restrictive policies in different case-use instances; however, studies focusing on restrictive agricultural policies and their effects on major stakeholders are scarce. While the Philippines has been increasing its support for biotech-related technologies in agriculture, such as the recent approval of Golden Rice and Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) eggplant for cultivation, the years prior to 2020 have not been as lenient in the acceptance of biotech crops. This paper explored the perceptions and attitudes of biotech corn farmers on the Philippine Supreme Court’s ban on biotech crops in 2015 and discussed how this restrictive agricultural policy could affect rural Filipino communities. A bifurcation was observed regarding the farmers’ ban perception, with almost half indicating that implementing the ban was an incorrect decision. The effects of the decision-making stages and influential factors on farmers’ perceived correctness of the ban were modeled using ordinal logistic regression and Spearman correlation. It was observed that while farmers’ initial instinct is directly related to their ban perception, succeeding decision-making stages enforce the notion of a pragmatic point of view leading to innate resistance effects towards the ban. Furthermore, internal factors (such as income and satisfaction) and external family-related factors perturb their ban perception. This information can offer guidance on how future restrictive agricultural policies may be framed to avoid conflicting interests between policymakers and stakeholders. This also highlights the need to understand farmer perspectives and attitudes to gain critical information regarding technology adoption and development.

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Section: Farmers' Decision-making Process and Factors Affecting Farme...mentioning

confidence: 89%

Is Implementing a Biotech Ban Correct or Not? Analysis of Farmer Perceptions and Attitudes on the Philippine Supreme Court’s Ban on Biotech Crops

2022

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“…Such is the case of climate change solutions based on GMOs. It has been proposed that biotech crops can reduce the greenhouse gases (GHG) emission by means of optimizing land-use, increasing yields, and decreasing the chemical, energy and transport resources involved in agricultural production [ 94 ]. Herbicide and insect resistant traits have allowed reduced levels of pesticide used worldwide estimated to an extent of 8.3% compared to the amount needed on the same area planted with conventional counterpart crops [ 95 ].…”

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“…Moreover, insect resistant traits have reduced the need for insecticide spraying, decreasing the fuel consumption associated with this process worldwide. In top of that, some authors argue that GM crops require less agricultural surface to be produced, also decreasing the fuel demand for machinery associated with larger farm area [ 94 , 95 ]. It has been estimated that, depending on the region, cultivation of maize, soybean or rotation of both, have a carbon sequestration between 102 and 250 kg of carbon per hectare per year [ 95 ].…”

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Genetically modified organisms: adapting regulatory frameworks for evolving genome editing technologies

2022

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Genetic modification of living organisms has been a prosperous activity for research and development of agricultural, industrial and biomedical applications. Three decades have passed since the first genetically modified products, obtained by transgenesis, become available to the market. The regulatory frameworks across the world have not been able to keep up to date with new technologies, monitoring and safety concerns. New genome editing techniques are opening new avenues to genetic modification development and uses, putting pressure on these frameworks. Here we discuss the implications of definitions of living/genetically modified organisms, the evolving genome editing tools to obtain them and how the regulatory frameworks around the world have taken these technologies into account, with a focus on agricultural crops. Finally, we expand this review beyond commercial crops to address living modified organism uses in food industry, biomedical applications and climate change-oriented solutions.

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“…Hazards such as overfishing as well as microplastic pollution add to this problem (Shim and Thompson 2015 ; Ferguson-Cradler 2021 ). Among other methods, such as genetic engineering, aquacultures and selective breeding of certain species are a possible solution (Yazdi and Shakouri 2010 ; Kovak et al 2022 ). We are not only talking about fish species, but specifically aquatic plants and algae.…”

Section: Implications For Shellfish Aquaculture In a Changing Marine ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Mytilicola orientalis

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2022

Aquacult Int

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Neozoa are invasive species that enter faunal communities as new species. Not infrequently, they pose a threat to local ecosystems. Climate change could further promote these developments or favor neozoa. Thus, they represent a relevant threat in the future. One of these neozoa is the copepod parasite Mytilicola orientalis. This parasite originates from Asia and infects a wide variety of bivalves like mussels and oysters. However, as an invasive species, it can be found more and more frequently in Europe, especially in the North and Baltic Seas. There, M. orientalis poses a real threat to mussels in aquaculture and thus also to the local economy.

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Genetically modified crops support climate change mitigation

Cited by 43 publications

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Is Implementing a Biotech Ban Correct or Not? Analysis of Farmer Perceptions and Attitudes on the Philippine Supreme Court’s Ban on Biotech Crops

Is Implementing a Biotech Ban Correct or Not? Analysis of Farmer Perceptions and Attitudes on the Philippine Supreme Court’s Ban on Biotech Crops

Genetically modified organisms: adapting regulatory frameworks for evolving genome editing technologies

Mytilicola orientalis

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