Technorati has this blog tied with Global Issues, which talks about Genetically modified foods in Brazil.
Maurício Lopes, president of the government agricultural research agency, EMBRAPA, emphasised another aspect.
The tropics are the world's most challenging region for agriculture, due to the impacts of climate change and the need to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions generated by this human activity, he said.
"We need to make use of the entire technological arsenal available to us. We believe that modern biotechnology, nanotechnology, new sciences and new paradigms are important. Brazil cannot say no to these techniques, because the current challenges are enormous," Lopes told Tierramérica.
Lopes believes that the results of these past 10 years have been positive overall, but that it is important to make intelligent, planned and careful use of these new tools.
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