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ANSWERING QUESTIONS ABOUT GM BIOTECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Q 1: How can GE ensure environmental sustainability as well as increase food production when pressure on environmental resources like land and water is growing?

There are two ways in which GE can help promote environmental sustainability. One way is to increase total food production, thereby making it unnecessary to put marginal or environmentally sensitive areas under plow. The other way is to employ

ANSWERING QUESTIONS ABOUT GM BIOTECHNOLOGY & THE FOOD SECURITY

Q 1: Is genetic engineering (GE) the only way of increasing food production?

No, it is not. It is only one of the tools we can use to increase food production. However, it is a powerful tool that will significantly increase our ability to produce the quantities of food that our growing world population will need.
Whether the genetic alteration is done haphazardly by selective breeding or in a more systematic

ANSWERING QUESTIONS ABOUT GM BIOTECHNOLOGY & HUMAN HEALTH

Q 1: Shouldn’t it be possible to demand zero risks from GE?

We do not demand zero health or environmental risks from anything else—including medical treatment, providing water and power to cities, building cheap housing for poor people. In all these cases, risks are minimized and

ANSWERING QUESTIONS ABOUT GM BIOTECHNOLOGY & SOCIO-ECONOMIC ISSUES

Q1:How can modern profit-driven agricultural biotechnology meet the basic needs of the poor?

As previously noted, the amelioration of malnutrition in the short term appears to be one major promise of biotechnology. One example is the development of more nutritionally complete

AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

What is plant biotechnology?
Biotechnology is defined by the Convention on Biological Diversity as "any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use."
More broadly, biotechnology covers biological processing,