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www.kitchengardeners.org/food_news/

Giant Strawberries

www.isaaa.org

ISAAA Global Area of Biotech Crops 2007

The rise and rise of GM crops

Gruère Guillaume P., Mehta-Bhatt Purvi, & Debdatta Sengupta (2008)

Bt Cotton and Farmer Suicides in India Reviewing the Evidence, IFPRI Discussion Paper 00808, Environment and Production Technology Division pp 64 IFPRI Discussion Paper 00808 Washington (Report) http://www.botanischergarten.ch/Cotton/Gruere-IFPRIDP200810.pdf AND http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/dp/IFPRIDP00808.pdf

Fig.10, Meta-analyis, economic effects

Gruère Guillaume P., Mehta-Bhatt Purvi, & Debdatta Sengupta (2008)

Share of farmers sucides

Gruère Guillaume P., Mehta-Bhatt Purvi, & Debdatta Sengupta (2008)

Total suicides

Gruère Guillaume P., Mehta-Bhatt Purvi, & Debdatta Sengupta (2008)

Average cotton yield s 1975-2007

Gruère Guillaume P., Mehta-Bhatt Purvi, & Debdatta Sengupta (2008)

Average cotton yields 1980-2007

Gruère Guillaume P., Mehta-Bhatt Purvi, & Debdatta Sengupta (2008)

Share of farmers suicides in total Indian sucicides 1997-2006

Backus, G., Berkhout, P., Eaton, D., de Kleijn, T., van Mil, E., Roza, P., Uffelmann, W., Franke, L., & Lotz, B. (2008)

EU policy on GMOs, A quick scan of the economic consequences, LEI Wageningen UR, The Hague. Report 2008-070, Project number 21177, ISBN/EAN 978 90-8615-265-0; pp 77 Report 2008-070, Project number 21177 (Report) http://www.botanischergarten.ch/Regulation/Backus-EU-Policies-economic-2008.pdf

AND Slide economic costs Backus-EU-Policy-Economy

Backus-EU-Policy-Economy

Backus, G., Berkhout, P., Eaton, D., de Kleijn, T., van Mil, E., Roza, P., Uffelmann, W., Franke, L., & Lotz, B. (2008)

AND Slide economic costs Backus-EU-Policy-Economy

Backus, G., Berkhout, P., Eaton, D., de Kleijn, T., van Mil, E., Roza, P., Uffelmann, W., Franke, L., & Lotz, B. (2008)

AND Slide economic costs Backus-EU-Policy-Economy

Bonny, forecast global soy production

Bonny, S. (2008)

Genetically modified glyphosate-tolerant soybean in the USA: adoption factors, impacts and prospects. A review. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 28, 1, pp 21-32 http://www.botanischergarten.ch/Soya/Bonny-Soy-review-USA-2008.pdf

Bonny, Main herbicides 1990-2006

in the US maize yields have accelerated in the last ten years

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actual breeding plus cultural practice gain

Source: March 2006. Crop Science. Ref# 46:528-543

corn yields in France and Italy in the last 10 years fail to show the same trend

120 100 80 60 40 20 0 1955 1960 1965 1970

Source; Eurostat

1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 France Italy France 95-06 Italy 95-06

Average US state corn and soybean yields 1866 – 2005: Egli 2008

Cotton in India, new statistics

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A diagrammatic indication of the relationship between economic development and environmental concern. The three primary economic systems of agrarian-, industrial-, and knowledge-based service are indicated with arbitrary indications of wealth and development. SO 2 emission is used merely as an indicator of industrial development and the subsequent environmental concern generated

The Population/Biodiversity Paradox. Agricultural Efficiency to Save Wilderness Anthony J. Trewavas Plant Physiology Jan. 2001

Agrarian-Industrial-Knowledge based Agriculture, Antony Trewavas 2001

Research Expenditure In % of GDP 2003 Gross Domestic Product GDP

Keller, B., Randegger, J.R., & Schreiber, H.P. (2003)

Schweizerische Wissenschafts-Politik Und Der Rasche Wandel in Der Gentechnologie. Biofocus, 63, pp 1-11 http://www.botanischergarten.ch/Science-Politics/Wiss-Politik-BioFokus65-2003.pdf

Financing Research and Success

No. Nobelprices per 1mio inhabitants No. Nobelprices in % of GDP Distribution Nobelprices 1945-2002

Keller, B., Randegger, J.R., & Schreiber, H.P. (2003)

Schweizerische Wissenschafts-Politik Und Der Rasche Wandel in Der Gentechnologie. Biofocus, 63, pp 1-11 http://www.botanischergarten.ch/Science-Politics/Wiss-Politik-BioFokus65-2003.pdf

Financing Research and Success

Development of Rice Yield since the Middle Ages Mendel Liebig J. Deere

Rice Yield since the Middle Ages

www.irri.org/gis/cartograms/cartograms.htm

World Rice Production

Cartogram World Rice Production

www.irri.org/gis/cartograms/cartograms.htm

World Wheat Production in a Cartogram from IRRI

Cartogram World Wheat Production

www.irri.org/gis/cartograms/cartograms.htm

Cartogram World Maize Production

Wheat Yields, Pardey et al.

Researcdh Intensities US, output shares

http://www.fao.org/docrep/w2598e/w2598e06.htm#TopOfPage

Fertilizer use development and crop yield evolution in Asian, European and Latin American countries and the United States

(Source: Joly, 1993) Joly, C. 1993. Plant nutrient management and the environment, In:

Prevention of Water Pollution by Agriculture and Related Activities.

Proceedings of the FAO Expert Consultation, Santiago, Chile, 20-23 Oct. 1992. Water Report 1. FAO, Rome. pp. 223-245.

www.fao.org/docrep/w 2598e/w2598e06.htm

Fertilizer use development and crop yield

Agricultural research intensity in the LDCs and O ther D eveloping C ountries (ODC), 1971-2003 (Investment in agricultural research as % of agricultural output) Source: UNCTAD, L east Developed C ountries R eport 2007

Agricultural Research Intensity, very negative trend in the developing world

Dramatic Acceleration in Analysis

Bio-era-teleconference April 22, 2003 Prometheus Unbound: Revolutionary Advances in Biological Technologies

www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/statistics-e.html

Growth of GenBank, exponential

Pfeiffer, W.H. & McClafferty, B. (2007)

HarvestPlus: Breeding crops for better nutrition. Crop Science, 47, pp S88-S105 http://www.botanischergarten.ch/Biofortification/Pfeiffer-HarvestPlus-Nutrition-2007.pdf