Exploring the future of GM technology in sustainable local food systems in Colombia.

ABSTRACT: The security of Earth's food systems is challenged by shifting regional climates. While agricultural processes are disrupted by climate change, they also play a large role in contributing to destabilizing greenhouse gases. Finding new strategies to increase yields while decreasing agricultural environmental impacts is essential. Tropical agriculture is particularly susceptible to climate change: local, smallholder farming, which provides a majority of the food supply, is high risk and has limited adaptation capacity. Rapid, inexpensive, intuitive solutions are needed, like the implementation of genetically modified (GM) crops. In the Latin American tropics, high awareness and acceptance of GM technologies, opportunities to test GM crops as part of local agricultural educations, and their k

SUBMITTER: Cardenas Pardo NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10349173 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature