EU Failing FAO Challenge to Improve Global Food Security.
The announcement that the European Union (EU) had reached an agreement allowing Member States (MS) to ban genetically modified (GM) crops confirms that the EU has chosen to ignore the food security challenge issued to the world by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 2009. The FAO suggests that agricultural biotechnology has a central role in meeting the food security challenge.
Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Saskatchewan, 51 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, S7N 5A8, Canada. Electronic address: stuart.smyth@usask.ca.
Stuart J
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Smyth
Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan, 101 Diefenbaker Place, Saskatoon, S7N 5B8, Canada.
Peter W B
PWB
Phillips
Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Saskatchewan, 51 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, S7N 5A8, Canada.
William A
WA
Kerr
D005062:European Union; D005523:Food Supply; D030841:Food, Genetically Modified; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006291:Health Policy; D014480:United Nations
GM crops; economic benefits; environmental benefits; health benefits; politicization of risk