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Opportunities for Orphan Crops: Expected Economic Benefits From Biotechnology
An enabling, evidence-based decision-making framework is critical to support agricultural biotechnology innovation, and to ensure farmers’ access to genetically modified (GM) crops, including orphan crop varieties. A key element, and often a challenge in the decision-making process, involves the bal...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9297366/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35873974 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.825930 |
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author | Zambrano, Patricia Wood-Sichra, Ulrike Ruhinduka, Remidius D. Phillip, Dayo Nin Pratt, Alejandro Komen, John Kikulwe, Enoch Mutebi Falck Zepeda, José Dzanku, Fred M. Chambers, Judith A. |
author_facet | Zambrano, Patricia Wood-Sichra, Ulrike Ruhinduka, Remidius D. Phillip, Dayo Nin Pratt, Alejandro Komen, John Kikulwe, Enoch Mutebi Falck Zepeda, José Dzanku, Fred M. Chambers, Judith A. |
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description | An enabling, evidence-based decision-making framework is critical to support agricultural biotechnology innovation, and to ensure farmers’ access to genetically modified (GM) crops, including orphan crop varieties. A key element, and often a challenge in the decision-making process, involves the balancing of identified potential risks with expected economic benefits from GM crops. The latter is particularly challenging in the case of orphan crops, for which solid economic data is scarce. To address this challenge, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in collaboration with local economists analyzed the expected economic benefits to farmers and consumers from the adoption of GM crops in 5 sub-Saharan African countries. This paper focuses on case studies involving insect-resistant cowpea in Nigeria and Ghana; disease-resistant cassava in Uganda and Tanzania; and disease-resistant banana in Uganda. Estimations from these case studies show substantial economic benefits to farmers and consumers from the timely adoption and planting in farmers’ fields of GM orphan crops. Our analysis also shows how the benefits would significantly be reduced by regulatory or other delays that affect the timely release of these crops. These findings underscore the importance of having an enabling policy environment and regulatory system—covering, among other elements, biosafety and food/feed safety assessment, and varietal release registration—that is efficient, predictable, and transparent to ensure that the projected economic benefits are delivered and realized in a timely manner. |
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spelling | pubmed-92973662022-07-21 Opportunities for Orphan Crops: Expected Economic Benefits From Biotechnology Zambrano, Patricia Wood-Sichra, Ulrike Ruhinduka, Remidius D. Phillip, Dayo Nin Pratt, Alejandro Komen, John Kikulwe, Enoch Mutebi Falck Zepeda, José Dzanku, Fred M. Chambers, Judith A. Front Plant Sci Plant Science An enabling, evidence-based decision-making framework is critical to support agricultural biotechnology innovation, and to ensure farmers’ access to genetically modified (GM) crops, including orphan crop varieties. A key element, and often a challenge in the decision-making process, involves the balancing of identified potential risks with expected economic benefits from GM crops. The latter is particularly challenging in the case of orphan crops, for which solid economic data is scarce. To address this challenge, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in collaboration with local economists analyzed the expected economic benefits to farmers and consumers from the adoption of GM crops in 5 sub-Saharan African countries. This paper focuses on case studies involving insect-resistant cowpea in Nigeria and Ghana; disease-resistant cassava in Uganda and Tanzania; and disease-resistant banana in Uganda. Estimations from these case studies show substantial economic benefits to farmers and consumers from the timely adoption and planting in farmers’ fields of GM orphan crops. Our analysis also shows how the benefits would significantly be reduced by regulatory or other delays that affect the timely release of these crops. These findings underscore the importance of having an enabling policy environment and regulatory system—covering, among other elements, biosafety and food/feed safety assessment, and varietal release registration—that is efficient, predictable, and transparent to ensure that the projected economic benefits are delivered and realized in a timely manner. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9297366/ /pubmed/35873974 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.825930 Text en Copyright © 2022 Zambrano, Wood-Sichra, Ruhinduka, Phillip, Nin Pratt, Komen, Kikulwe, Falck Zepeda, Dzanku and Chambers. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Plant Science Zambrano, Patricia Wood-Sichra, Ulrike Ruhinduka, Remidius D. Phillip, Dayo Nin Pratt, Alejandro Komen, John Kikulwe, Enoch Mutebi Falck Zepeda, José Dzanku, Fred M. Chambers, Judith A. Opportunities for Orphan Crops: Expected Economic Benefits From Biotechnology |
title | Opportunities for Orphan Crops: Expected Economic Benefits From Biotechnology |
title_full | Opportunities for Orphan Crops: Expected Economic Benefits From Biotechnology |
title_fullStr | Opportunities for Orphan Crops: Expected Economic Benefits From Biotechnology |
title_full_unstemmed | Opportunities for Orphan Crops: Expected Economic Benefits From Biotechnology |
title_short | Opportunities for Orphan Crops: Expected Economic Benefits From Biotechnology |
title_sort | opportunities for orphan crops: expected economic benefits from biotechnology |
topic | Plant Science |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9297366/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35873974 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.825930 |
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