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2009-06-22 | permalink
GM crops ten years on: The undying promise
Detailed analysis of the studies in question reveals a rather more complex and mixed picture – one that should strongly qualify any claim that ’GM crops are good for the poor’. Certainly, some farmers have benefited from the new technology, but others, especially smaller and poorer farmers, have not. The data also confirms that the impacts of GM technology depend on an awful lot more than one or a few new genes inserted into a crop plant.
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2009-06-22 | permalink
GM crops ten years on: The undying promise
Detailed analysis of the studies in question reveals a rather more complex and mixed picture – one that should strongly qualify any claim that ’GM crops are good for the poor’. Certainly, some farmers have benefited from the new technology, but others, especially smaller and poorer farmers, have not. The data also confirms that the impacts of GM technology depend on an awful lot more than one or a few new genes inserted into a crop plant.
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