Exploring the future of GM technology in sustainable local food systems in Colombia
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 envir...
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| author | Néstor Julián Cárdenas Pardo Dolly Esperanza Rodriguez Robayo John Cristhian Fernandez Lizarazo Diego Camilo Peña-Quemba Diego Camilo Peña-Quemba Erica McGale |
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| description | 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 known economic benefits, support their use. However, this is not all that is needed for the future of GM technologies in these areas: GM implementation must also consider environmental and social sustainability, which can be unique to a locality. Primarily from the perspective of its educators, the potential of a rural Colombian university in driving GM implementation is explored, including the role of this type of university in producing agricultural engineers who can innovate with GM to meet regionally-dependent environmental and cultural needs that could increase their sustainability. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4da0dbf0e6d44f85856540ea98867bca2023-06-30T19:14:11ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Genome Editing2673-34392023-06-01510.3389/fgeed.2023.11818111181811Exploring the future of GM technology in sustainable local food systems in ColombiaNéstor Julián Cárdenas Pardo0Dolly Esperanza Rodriguez Robayo1John Cristhian Fernandez Lizarazo2Diego Camilo Peña-Quemba3Diego Camilo Peña-Quemba4Erica McGale5Utopía, Universidad de La Salle, Yopal, ColombiaUtopía, Universidad de La Salle, Yopal, ColombiaUtopía, Universidad de La Salle, Yopal, ColombiaUtopía, Universidad de La Salle, Yopal, ColombiaFaculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Fundación Universitaria de San Gil, UNISANGIL, Yopal, ColombiaDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, SwitzerlandThe 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 known economic benefits, support their use. However, this is not all that is needed for the future of GM technologies in these areas: GM implementation must also consider environmental and social sustainability, which can be unique to a locality. Primarily from the perspective of its educators, the potential of a rural Colombian university in driving GM implementation is explored, including the role of this type of university in producing agricultural engineers who can innovate with GM to meet regionally-dependent environmental and cultural needs that could increase their sustainability.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgeed.2023.1181811/fullgenetically modified (GM) plantsGM technologylocal agricultureColombiarural educationtropical agriculture |
| spellingShingle | Néstor Julián Cárdenas Pardo Dolly Esperanza Rodriguez Robayo John Cristhian Fernandez Lizarazo Diego Camilo Peña-Quemba Diego Camilo Peña-Quemba Erica McGale Exploring the future of GM technology in sustainable local food systems in Colombia Frontiers in Genome Editing genetically modified (GM) plants GM technology local agriculture Colombia rural education tropical agriculture |
| title | Exploring the future of GM technology in sustainable local food systems in Colombia |
| title_full | Exploring the future of GM technology in sustainable local food systems in Colombia |
| title_fullStr | Exploring the future of GM technology in sustainable local food systems in Colombia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the future of GM technology in sustainable local food systems in Colombia |
| title_short | Exploring the future of GM technology in sustainable local food systems in Colombia |
| title_sort | exploring the future of gm technology in sustainable local food systems in colombia |
| topic | genetically modified (GM) plants GM technology local agriculture Colombia rural education tropical agriculture |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgeed.2023.1181811/full |
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