CropLife International talked to Filipino farmer Edwin Paralumanabout how biotech crops transformed his life and about agriculture in general in the Philippines. He noted, "I had stopped planting corn on my farm because of damage from thecorn borer. But when I saw biotech insect-resistant corn an...
Elsewhere in the world, GMOs are similarly restricted or banned in Saudi Arabia, Syria, Algeria, Poland, Brazil, Paraguay,Peru, China, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, Fiji, Sri Lanka, American Samoa, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Papua New G...
The opposition reached an apogee when Greenpeace activists destroyed fields of golden rice trials in the Philippines (while claiming that the vandalism was done by the farmers). While there is widespread skepticism about genetically modified foods, public opinion is contrary to settled science and ...
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benefits that were obtained by resource-poor cotton farmers in South Africa have led many smallholders in South Africa and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa to accept GM cotton (Hillocks,2009). Similar benefits were also obtained by resource-poor farmers growing Bt maize in the Philippines (J...
The cost of malnutrition in all its forms is unacceptably high, at 3.5 trillion USD per year worldwide. In the Philippines, the projected annual national economic burden of malnutrition is more than 4.65 billion USD per year, of which 33 million USD is attributable to Vitamin A deficie...