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Biosafety Issues of Genetically Modified Crops: Addressing the Potential Risks and the Status of GMO Crops in Ethiopia

“…Nevertheless, public perceptions about GMOs in food and agriculture are divided with a tendency toward GM food and product in many developed and developing countries [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. Several developing countries lack awareness, technical capacity to handle risk assessment, and monitor compliances [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. In Africa, the biosafety regulatory capacity of many countries are limited by lack of trained personnel as well as absence of coherent regulatory instruments and institutions for risk assessment and management relation to genetic engineering.…”

“…Loss of biodiversity risk relayed to GM crops are expressed in different ways, the first one is a plant which have a biotic stress resistance gene have more chance to become popular in short period because of its fitness and preferential selection [28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]. This selection could cause "genetic erosion" situations where the affected gene become quite rare with severs chance of disappear from the natural gene pool of the population [17]. Farmers restrict themselves to few popularly grown varieties, this results reduced genetic diversity in response to GMOs.…”