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Dec 1, 2020 · Policies and ethics. Despite a consolidated increase in their employment, herbicide-tolerant (HT) and insect-resistant (IR) GM varieties have commonly been suspected to represent a threat to biodiversity. In this chapter, we analyze the major concerns related to the potential persistence...
- Luca Lombardo, Massimiliano Trenti, Samanta Zelasco
- 2020
Overall, the review finds that currently commercialized GM crops have reduced the impacts of agriculture on biodiversity, through enhanced adoption of conservation tillage practices, reduction of insecticide use and use of more environmentally benign herbicides and increasing yields to alleviate pressure to convert additional land into agricultu...
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- Defining Biodiversity – The Diversity of Diversities
- Impacts of GMOs on Biodiversity
- Risks to Plant Diversity at The Crop and Farm Levels
- Protecting Biodiversity
The potential impact of GMOs on biodiversity is a complex topic of great interest, particularly in relation to biological conservation and ecosystem resilience. While there is now an increasing amount of literature on the possible environmental implications of GM plants on biodiversity at different trophic levels, it is essential to first define bi...
With the rise in GM crop production and area under GM crop cultivation in the last 24 years, the debate on the risks associated with GM crop cultivation has also intensified, with more and more studies being published both in support of and against GM crops (Prakash et al. 2011). GM plants increase the crop’s genetic diversity when considered in th...
Intensive agriculture is among the main drivers behind the loss of biodiversity at the crop, farm and landscape levels. Half of the global food demands are met with only four major crops: wheat, maize, rice and potato, implying that 50% of the biota occurring on farmlands (i.e. plants, insects, pests, farm animals, birds, fungi and microbes of farm...
Overreliance on GM crops in general, and herbicide-resistant GM crops in particular, discourages the application of alternative weed control and insect pest management strategies. Since the very beginning of agriculture, all the developments have aimed at achieving higher yields and increasing farm income, with less focus placed on integrating the ...
- Muhammad Amjad Nawaz, Kirill S. Golokhvast, Aristides M. Tsatsakis, Hon-Ming Lam, Gyuhwa Chung
- 2020
There has been concern that the agronomic biodiversity of crops will decrease with the adoption of GM crops, because farmers will stop growing commercial varieties that do not have the new genetic improvements.
measures to reduce the ecological impact on biodiversity are briey considered. Keywords Herbicide-tolerant GM crops · Insect-resistant GM crops · Biodiversity · Environment · Herbicide-resistant weeds · Non-target organisms
- Luca Lombardo, Massimiliano Trenti, Samanta Zelasco
- 2020
Overall, the review finds that currently commercialized GM crops have reduced the impacts of agriculture on biodiversity, through enhanced adoption of conservation tillage practices, reduction of insecticide use and use of more environmentally benign herbicides and increasing yields to alleviate pressure to convert additional land into agricultu...
Nov 15, 2022 · In the 25-year period from 1996 to 2020, crop biotechnology reduced the application of crop protection products by 748.6 million kilograms, a global reduction of 7.2 percent on the area planted...
