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Sustainability assessment of GM crops in a Swiss agricultural context
| العنوان: | Sustainability assessment of GM crops in a Swiss agricultural context |
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| المؤلفون: | Speiser, Bernhard, Stolze, Matthias, Oehen, Bernadette, Gessler, Cesare, Weibel, Franco, Bravin, Esther, Kilchenmann, Adeline, Widmer, Albert, Charles, Raffael, Lang, Andreas, Stamm, Christian, Triloff, Peter, Tamm, Lucius |
| المصدر: | ISSN: 1774-0746. |
| بيانات النشر: | HAL CCSD Springer Verlag/EDP Sciences/INRA |
| سنة النشر: | 2012 |
| المجموعة: | Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Crop management, Ecological impact assessment, GM crops, Profitability, Sustainability, Swiss agriculture, Transgenic crops, [SDV.SA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences, [SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment |
| الوصف: | International audience ; The aim of this study was to provide an ex ante assessment of the sustainability of genetically modified (GM) crops under the agricultural conditions prevailing in Switzerland. The study addressed the gaps in our knowledge relating to (1) the agronomic risks/benefits in production systems under Swiss conditions (at field and rotation/orchard level), (2) the economic and socio-economic impacts associated with altered farming systems, and (3) the agro-ecological risks/benefits of GM crops (at field and rotation/orchard level). The study was based on an inventory of GM crops and traits which may be available in the next decade, and on realistic scenarios of novel agricultural practices associated with the use of GM crops in conventional, integrated, and organic farming systems in Switzerland. The technology impact assessment was conducted using an adapted version of the matrix for “comparative assessment of risks and benefits for novel agricultural systems” developed for the UK. Parameter settings were based on information from literature sources and expert workshops. In a tiered approach, sustainability criteria were defined, an inventory of potentially available, suitable GM crops was drawn up, and scenarios of baseline and novel farming systems with GM crops were developed and subsequently submitted to economic, socio-economic, and agro-ecological assessments. The project had several system boundaries, which influenced the outcomes. It was limited to the main agricultural crops used for food and feed production and focused on traits that are relevant at the field level and are likely to be commercially available within a decade from the start of the project. The study assumed that there would be no statutory restrictions on growing GM crops in all farming systems and that they would be eligible for direct payments in the same way as non-GM crops. Costs for co-existence measures were explicitly excluded and it was assumed that GM foods could be marketed in the same way as non-GM foods at ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | hal-01201377; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01201377; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01201377/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01201377/file/13593_2012_Article_88.pdf |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s13593-012-0088-7 |
| الاتاحة: | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01201377 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01201377/document https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01201377/file/13593_2012_Article_88.pdf https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-012-0088-7 |
| Rights: | info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.6C1697A6 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s13593-012-0088-7 |
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