Báo cáo hóa học: Implications of GMO cultivation and monitoring-series

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Implications of GMO cultivation and monitoring-series"Schmidt and Schröder Environmental Sciences Europe 2011, 23:2http://www.enveurope.com/content/23/1/2 EDITORIAL Open AccessImplications of GMO cultivation andmonitoring-seriesGunther Schmidt*, Winfried Schröder documented on the website http://www.gmls.eu. TopicsGenetic engineering is a technological approach that include empirical work concerning findings on GMallows for the application of new genetic material across traits, dispersal of GMO, and possible effects on non-species borders. It is assumed to yield specific benefits, target organisms as well as risk assessment, theoreticale.g., increased food production, decreased use of pesti- concepts and methodological aspects such as modellingcides and herbicides, and improved food quality. How- and data analysis facing large spatial and temporalever, after more than a decade of commercial dimensions. Strategic implications for good governanceexperience in some countries outside Europe, it seems and approaches for unknown effects have been dis-apparent that several initial expectations could not be cussed from a social-ecological perspective. GMLS ismet, for example, the overall reduction in pesticide use. part of the studies on systemic risks funded by theUnlike chemicals that degrade by time, genetically modi- BMBFa in the call on Social Ecological research. In thisfied organisms (GMO) as well as their decompositionproducts have the potential to proliferate and persist in context, scientific findings are linked to social considera-the environment, eventually without the possibility of tions on how nature and the human society mutuallyremoving them once they have been released. Thus, influence each other. This interdisciplinary approachconcerns have been raised about potential adverse envir- aims at a deeper understanding of the following mutualonmental impacts of the GMO and about potential response: How do social actions shape the environment,implications on the coexistence between conventional and, vice versa, how do environmental processes impact the success of social activities – agriculture as well asand genetically modified production. This makes riskassessment as well as monitoring highly challenging other natural resource uses.tasks towards minimising the risk of adverse effects. This special series publishes some key contributionsEcological, agricultural and economic implications presented at the GMLS II conference. The articlesresulting from the cultivation of GMO at large spatial describe different aspects of large-scale cultivation ofscales are currently discussed in science, administration GMOs:and in the context of agricultural practice. A challenging Overview of the series, thematically oriented:task in this context is how to assess large-scale andlong-term effects of GMO release in the approval proce- 1. A case study of GM maize gene flow in Southdure, in the planning of coexistence measures and in African Chris Viljoen, Lukeshni Chettypost-market monitoring regarding environmental as well 2. Setup, efforts and significance of a GMO monitor-as food monitoring. The international conference ‘Impli- ing program - An Austrian case study Kathrincations of GM Crop Cultivation at Large Spatial Scales’ ...