EU Failing FAO Challenge to Improve Global Food Security.

Abstract:

: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.

journal_name

Trends Biotechnol

journal_title

Trends in biotechnology

authors

Smyth SJ,Phillips PWB,Kerr WA

doi

10.1016/j.tibtech.2016.04.003

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-07-01 00:00:00

pages

521-523

issue

7

eissn

0167-7799

issn

1879-3096

pii

S0167-7799(16)30007-5

journal_volume

34

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