Biotechnology Crop Adoption: Potential and Challenges of Genetically Improved Crops

Newell‐McGloughlin, Martina; Burke, Jerome S.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-444-52512-3.00213-8

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“…Some African countries welcomed GM technology and rapidly proceed for adopting GM crops to enhance agricultural production efficiency and increase the nutritional values of plants [209,210]. While, other African countries oppose GM technology stating its safety concerns, environmental and human health issues, intellectual property rights and ethical uncertainties [211][212][213]. However, several anti-GMO debates and controversies related to the safety of GMOs, and their impacts on human health and environmental issues are major hindrances in adopting biosafety regulations among African nations [214,215].…”

Section: Biosafety Regulatory Of Gmo Foods and Productsmentioning

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Assessment of Benefits and Risk of Genetically Modified Plants and Products: Current Controversies and Perspective

Ghimire

Kim

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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Genetic transformation has emerged as an important tool for the genetic improvement of valuable plants by incorporating new genes with desirable traits. These strategies are useful especially in crops to increase yields, disease resistance, tolerance to environmental stress (cold, heat, drought, salinity, herbicides, and insects) and increase biomass and medicinal values of plants. The production of healthy plants with more desirable products and yields can contribute to sustainable development goals. The introduction of genetically modified food into the market has raised potential risks. A proper assessment of their impact on the environment and biosafety is an important step before their commercialization. In this paper, we summarize and discuss the risks and benefits of genetically modified plants and products, human health hazards by genetically transformed plants, environmental effects, Biosafety regulations of GMO foods and products, and improvement of medicinal values of plants by the genetic transformation process. The mechanisms of action of those products, their sources, and their applications to the healthcare challenges are presented. The present studies pointed out the existence of several controversies in the use of GMOs, mainly related to the human health, nutritions, environmental issues. Willingness to accept genetically modified (GM) products and the adoption of biosafety regulations varies from country to country. Knowledge about the gene engineering technology, debate between the government agencies, scientist, environmentalist and related NGOs on the GM products are the major factors for low adoptions of biosafety regulation. Therefore, the genetic transformation will help in the advancement of plant species in the future; however, more research and detailed studies are required.

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Section: Biosafety Regulatory Of Gmo Foods and Productsmentioning

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Assessment of Benefits and Risk of Genetically Modified Plants and Products: Current Controversies and Perspective

Ghimire

Kim

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Sustainability

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“…Industry associations' support provides the necessary assurances and creates a favorable regulatory environment ( 71 , 72 ). Various regulatory efficiency mechanisms and specific initiatives increase the capacity for food safety regulatory integration, lowering the likelihood of cluster public crises ( 73 , 74 ).…”

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Impact of food safety supervision efficiency on preventing and controlling mass public crisis

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Qiao

Wang

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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Food safety has received unprecedented attention since the COVID-19 outbreak. Exploring food safety regulatory mechanisms in the context of cluster public crises is critical for COVID-19 prevention and control. As a result, using data from a food safety regulation survey in the Bei-jing-Tianjin-Hebei urban cluster, this paper investigates the impact of food safety regulation on the prevention and control of COVID-19. The study found that food safety regulation and cluster public crisis prevention and control have a significant positive relationship, with the ability to integrate regulatory resources acting as a mediator between the two. Second, industry groups argue that the relationship between regulatory efficiency and regulatory resource integration should be moderated in a positive manner. Finally, industry association support positively moderates the mediating role of regulatory re-source integration capacity between food safety regulatory efficiency and cluster public crises, and there is a mediating effect of being moderated. Our findings shed light on the mechanisms underlying the roles of regulatory efficiency, resource integration capacity, and industry association support in food safety, and they serve as a useful benchmark for further improving food safety regulations during the COVID-19 outbreak.

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GMOs in Africa: Status, adoption and public acceptance

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Biotechnology Crop Adoption: Potential and Challenges of Genetically Improved Crops

Cited by 4 publications

References 136 publications

Assessment of Benefits and Risk of Genetically Modified Plants and Products: Current Controversies and Perspective

Assessment of Benefits and Risk of Genetically Modified Plants and Products: Current Controversies and Perspective

Impact of food safety supervision efficiency on preventing and controlling mass public crisis

GMOs in Africa: Status, adoption and public acceptance

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