GMOS AND ORGANIC AGRICULTURE: SIX LESSONS FROM AUSTRALIA

GMOs FOR AFRICAN AGRICULTURE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

The human population in Africa has undergone a rapid increase in the last decade and this, coupled with problems such as erratic rainfall, prolonged droughts and agricultural pest problems, has resulted in severe food insecurity. Advanced agricultural technologies, including the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), could play a role in enhancing agricultural productivity in Africa. How...

Lessons from Asian Agriculture

Lessons from Agriculture

Agriculture has two ways to increase its output, expanding the land area under cultivation and improving the yields on cultivated land. If agricultural growth and performance taken to increase the farming incomes of rural families, then a third way can be added, i.e. shifting the product composition to higher value products. For decades, it has been commented that, globally the possibilities fo...

The road also taken: lessons from organic agriculture for market- and risk-based regulation.

In hindsight, the year 1990 was a crossroads in environmental and regulatory policy generally and in the regulation of food specifically. And two different narratives capture the competing regulatory choices presented at that crossroads. The first, a conventional narrative, finds mounting evidence of what many regard as the dominant avenues of regulatory reform in environmental policymaking: ma...

Experience from use of GMOs in Argentinian agriculture, economy and environment.

Argentina is the second largest grower of genetically modified (GM) crops. This high level of adoption of this new agricultural technology is the result of a complex combination of circumstances. We can identify four main causes that led to this: political support (from agriculture officials), ability to solve prevalent farmers' needs, economic and environmental factors and an early implementat...