During Get to Know GMOs month, GMO Answers is providing information about GMO basics, clarifying common misconceptions, and digging deeper into the role of GMOs in sustainable agriculture, and their impact on the environment. But, why?
During Get to Know GMOs month, GMO Answers is providing information about GMO basics, clarifying common misconceptions, and digging deeper into the role of GMOs in sustainable agriculture, ...
What are the benefits of GMOs and why are GMOs good?
Science and Politics Many consumers spend more for organic food to avoid genetically modified products in part because they believe that “industrial agriculture” endangers the environment ...
Don't apologize for GMO commodity crops. Say it loud and proud: These biotech crops are the biggest innovations in sustainable agriculture of the last three decades.
Farmers describe how GMOs have enabled them to reduce their use of the older, more toxic insecticides, and reduce their carbon footprint.
(2017). Environmental impacts of genetically modified (GM) crop use 1996–2015: Impacts on pesticide use and carbon emissions. GM Crops & Food: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 117-147.
A study assessing the global economic and environmental impacts of biotech crops for the first twenty one years (1996-2016) of adoption showed that the technology has reduced pesticide ...
Let’s move past the green and gene revolutions to a microbiome renaissance
Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is a soil bacterium that forms spores during the stationary phase of its growth cycle. The spores contain crystals, predominantly comprising one or more Cry ...
Permaculture’s goal is to nourish humans while enhancing biodiversity and increasing soil quality. Now technology could address criticisms that the technique is too labour-intensive, ...