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Elena Faccio and Lucrezia Guiotto Nai Fovino
The food industry is constantly challenged to find new ideas to satisfy the increasingly specific consumer demand. However, innovative food products do not always become part of consumption habits or create a market. One of the major sources of resistanc...
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Insa Kühling, Shohrukh Atoev and Dieter Trautz
The Western Siberian grain belt is of global significance in terms of agricultural production as well as carbon sequestration and biodiversity preservation. Regional downscaling of general circulation models predict increasing drought risks and water sca...
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Kyrre Sundseth, Jozef M. Pacyna, Elisabeth G. Pacyna, Nicola Pirrone and Rebecca J. Thorne
This paper reviews information from the existing literature and the EU GMOS (Global Mercury Observation System) project to assess the current scientific knowledge on global mercury releases into the atmosphere, on global atmospheric transport and deposit...
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Amaranta Herrero, Fern Wickson and Rosa Binimelis
Over the past twenty years, agricultural biotechnologies have generated chronically unresolved political controversies. The standard tool of risk assessment has proven to be highly limited in its ability to address the panoply of concerns that exist abou...
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Carmen Bain and Tamera Dandachi
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E. Jane Morris
Modern biotechnology, including the application of transgenic techniques to produce Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), can play a significant role in increasing agricultural production in a sustainable way, but its products need to be tailored for th...
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Philipp Aerni
Independent of the left-right model of ideological structure, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food and agriculture are resented across the political spectrum in Switzerland. In the absence of any real experience with genetically modified (GM) fo...
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Ana Paula Myszczuk,Clarissa Bueno Wandscheer,Roseli Rocha dos Santos
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O presente artigo discute a questão dos Organismos Geneticamente modificados (OGM), sob o aspecto jurídicoe as possibilidades de responsabilização em razão de eventuais danos causados ao meio ambiente por estes. Para tanto analisa os requisitos gerais pa...
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Douglas H. Constance
This paper investigates the political economy of the development of sustainable agriculture programs and initiatives in the United States. Sustainable agriculture emerged as part of a growing critique of the negative environmental consequences of unquest...
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