Food Biotechnology - Monsanto

Welcome to Monsanto's website about food biotechnology in the UK and around the world.

Monsanto is an agricultural company. We are focused on applying innovation and technology to assist farmers around the world to be more successful, helping them produce healthier foods, better animal feeds and more fibre, while also reducing agriculture's footprint on our environment. The company's corporate headquarters are located in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States of America.

We're excited about the potential for genetically modified food to contribute to a better environment and a sustainable, plentiful, and healthy food supply. We recognise, however, that many consumers have genuine concerns about food biotechnology and its impact on their families.

This site is intended to promote a deeper understanding of food biotechnology by providing visitors with access to the full range of thought, opinion, and background information about this important subject.

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Click on 'agricultural solutions' to go to the Monsanto UK non-biotech agricultural web site for farmers and growers in the United Kingdom.

To find out more about Monsanto's role in the UK's Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC), click here. To learn more about the ABC's continental equivalent at Agriculture Biotechnology Europe (ABE), click here. And to learn about Monsanto's global role at the Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI), click here

We want to hear your views and answer your questions. Please explore, participate, and tell us what you think.

 
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Latest News, Archives, Press Releases and Responses to Media Stories:
  • GM Crop Use to Double by 2015, Study Predicts
    Agricultural use of genetically modified crops across the world has increased almost 70-fold in the past 10 years, breaking the 100m-hectare mark, and is set to double by 2015, according to a study released today.
  • Big Rise in European GM Area Predicted
    The area of Genetically Modified crops grown across Europe outside the UK is increasing as attitudes towards the technology change, Monsanto's Robert Plaice said.
  • Frankenstein Foods Are Not Monsters
    By 2006, genetically modified crops were grown on more than 100 million hectares in 22 countries, with farmers in China and India clamouring for the seed...The promise for farmers is bigger yields at lower cost and, in a world that needs to feed an extra three billion people by 2050, the need is powerful.
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"What role can GM agriculture play in reducing the detrimental effects of climate change?" Click here to tell us what you think.
 
GM Farmer Testimonies

Conversations about plant biotechnology
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farmers and experts worldwide

With more than 8 million farmers globally planting biotech crops, this site is designed to share some of these growers' conversations about how GM crops have impacted their lives and their communities.

See videos and hear from growers about how GM crops have decreased pesticide applications by 172,000 metric tons - equivalent to well over 23,700 London buses!

Click here to read how GM crops went from 0 to 100 billion in a decade - and what the next ten years has in store.


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