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Article: Trade trouble ahead; GM crops.(GM crops keep growing)(genetically modified)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 15, 2005
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The fast spread of genetically modified crops means transatlantic trouble
GREENS may hate them, but farmers love them: that is the lesson of statistics out this week on the spread of genetically modified (GM) crops. The area sown with them worldwide last year was up by a startling 20% on 2003, to 81m hectares.
So says the ISAAA (a pro-GM body but the best source of data there is). After an 11% rise, America still accounts for nearly 60% of the total, but GM areas in other big food exporters, bar Australia, were rising fast: in Argentina by 17%, Canada by 23%, Brazil by 66% (maybe: no one can be sure how much of its soya is GM, but certainly plenty and ...