Idioma principal do documento: Inglês


Resumo em Inglês: Biotechnology proponents claim that genetically modified (GM) crops are good for consumers, farmers and the environment, and that they are growing in popularity around the world. Unfortunately, journalists often report such claims as fact, without first subjecting them to critical scrutiny. As in past editions of “Who Benefits from GM Crops?” we here attempt to provide a nuanced, fact-based assessment of GM crops around the world, and to clear up commonmisconceptions about their nature and impacts. In this 2008 edition, we report on new trends and findings, particularly the rise in pesticide use with GM crops. The 2008 edition of the “Who Benefits from GM crops?” series has analyzed a substantial amount of documentation from scientific technical bodies, industry, academia, governments, and civil society from around the globe, and concludes that after more than a decade of worldwide commercialization of GM crops and increased penetration of GM crops in a few countries has failed to deliver the benefits that is proponents claim.
Palavras-chave em Inglês: genetically modified (GM) crops, pesticide use, GM crops in the United States: the chemical assault on weeds, soybeans in South America: weed resistance to glyphosate on the rise, cotton around the World, Europe: a closed door to GM crops,
Palavras-chave em Português: organismos geneticamente modificados (OGMs), uso de pesticidas, uso de agro-químicos, culturas geneticamente modificadas nos Estados Unidos, soja na América do Sul, cultura do algodão no Mundo, Europa fecha a porta a culturas geneticamente modificadas

Tipo: Relatório/Plano

Áreas temáticas: Ciências Agrárias e Desenv. Rural, Ciências e Tecnol. do Ambiente, Engenharia e Segurança Alimentar
Ano publicação/produção:  2008

Instituição: Friends of the Earth International

Número de páginas:  46

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