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The global challenges of food security, climate change and sustainable development will not be addressed by turning back the clock to some fake nostalgic past.
“The reality is that we’ll need to produce more food with fewer resources, on less land, using less water. It is a challenge that will only be met with smart and sustainable intensification and more ag innovation.”
European policymakers appear increasingly shy to enter dialogue with industry experts and even public domain scientists who have collaborated with industry.
For the purpose of this perspective, I specifically exclude technologies targeting RNA and the epigenome as today these require the permanent integration of exogenous DNA into the plant and are therefore without any doubt classed as GMO. I also exclude the use of gene editing technologies as supporting technologies to enable targeted insertion of transgenes – another clear GMO application.
