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Article: From the Green Revolution to the Gene Revolution; Agricultural Biotechnology: Meeting the Needs of the Poor?(REPORT ON REPORTS)
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- Environment
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Since 1995, genetically engineered agricultural crops, including multiple varieties of soybeans, maize, and cotton, have been approved by regulators and grown widely in the United States, Argentina, Canada, China, South Africa, and elsewhere. These genetically modified (GM) agricultural crops were initially approved by regulators in Europe and Japan as well. However, in 1996, when an unrelated but traumatic mad cow disease crisis undermined the credibility of European food safety regulators, some consumer, environmental, and antiglobalization activist groups began a determined campaign against GM crops, and the new technology fell under a cloud. Many developing countries, ...