Soil quality news: GM crop technology "failing"

GM crop technology is "failing", according to one sector expert.

Kirtana Chandrasekaran, GM campaigner at Friends of the Earth, made his comments following the publication of a new report by the Royal Society which made a number of recommendations about how the biological sciences can aid food crop production.

The paper - entitled Reaping the benefits: Science and the sustainable intensification of global agriculture - was published yesterday (October 21st) and makes a number of suggestions, including the development of a food crop security strategy.

It also calls for universities to take steps to reverse the decline in subjects such as environmental microbiology, weed science and agronomy.

Mr Chandrasekaran said: "Science has a key role to play in reducing hunger and poverty, but the report's focus on GM crops ignores mounting evidence that this technology is failing."

The environmental campaigner concluded by stating that GM crops are an extension of factory farming that is destroying wildlife and exacerbating climate change.

Posted by Joseph Hutton