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The trans-Atlantic conflict over green farming

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FOOD POLICY
卷 108, 期 -, 页码 -

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2022.102229

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Europe; Farming; Precision; Sustainability; Organic; GMO; CRISPR

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The EU plans to expand organic farming with its Farm to Fork strategy, while the United States emphasizes agricultural innovations based on the latest science. Environmentalists in Europe believe their new vision is green, but it actually has negative environmental consequences.
With its new Farm to Fork (F2F) strategy, the EU plans to expand organic farming, an approach that rules out both synthetic chemicals and modern biotechnology, and it intends to use trade and assistance policies to pursue this strategy not just at home but also through Green Alliances abroad. The United States, by contrast, is emphasizing agricultural innovations based on the latest science-including gene-editing-and is now organizing with other countries a Coalition for Productivity Growth as a counter to European influence. Environmentalists in Europe believe their new vision is green, but on closer inspection it is not. If organic farming scaled up to replace 25 percent of conventional farming in Europe, much more land would have to be converted to food production, with damaging results for wildlife habitat and the climate. In its earlier rejection of GMOs, Europe caused environmental harm by foregoing options to cut insecticide use and adopt no-till practices. Europe's regulatory example also discouraged the adoption of GMO food crops around the world. Europe is now inviting similar harms by classifying and regulating gene-edited crops as GMOs, but this most recent aversion to agricultural science is less likely to enjoy global influence.

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