Welcome to the CropLife International database of published papers and reviews demonstrating the benefits and safety implications associated with the use of agricultural biotechnology products.
Adoption of Agricultural biotechnology continues to rapidly grow worldwide. Following the consistent and substantial, economic, environmental and welfare benefits generated from biotech crops over the last fourteen years, millions of large, small and resource-poor farmers in both industrial and developing countries continued to plant more hectares of biotech crops in 2009 than ever before; this testimony to biotech crops from millions of practitioner farmers around the world is the simplest but probably the single most compelling, pragmatic and common-sense measure of the superior performance of biotech crops globally. (James C., ISAAA, 2009)
Current figures show that approximately 14 million farmers across 25 countries grew biotech crops in 2009, up from 13.3 million farmers in 2008. Notably, over 90% or 13 million of the beneficiary farmers were small and resource-poor farmers from developing countries. (James C., ISAAA, 2009)
While studies recording, demonstrating and quantifying the benefits of biotechnology exist, they can be difficult to find. The purpose of this database is to enable you to quickly and easily locate and access credible scientific information about the demonstrated benefits of agricultural biotechnology products and the safety implications associated with their use. The database therefore provides access to a selection of quality studies that highlight the global benefits of biotechnology products.
