2011-10-12
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Rapid population growth and a swiftly changing climate compound the challenges of ensuring a secure global food supply. Genetically modified plants could help to solve the problem, believes a Norwegian crop researcher. Over 90 per cent of the global food supply consists of either plants or meat from production animals raised on plant-based feeds. By 2050, 70 per cent more food will need to be produced worldwide on roughly the same area of farmland to keep up with global population growth. At the same time, major changes in climate are expected to occur.
2011-06-09
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DN has evaluated the available information regarding the product’s risk to health and the environment, social benefit, contribution to sustainable development and ethical issues in accordance with the Norwegian Gene Technology Act and Nature Diversity Act. DN has concluded that the potato should not be cultivated, nor used for industry purposes or in animal feed in Norway. DN has also recommended against allowing unintended mixing of the potato in food and feed products up to 0.9%.
2011-05-23
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In trials reviewed, there was little consistency from trial to trial for a specific GM plant, so drawing any general conclusions on the safety of using GM plants in fish feed is difficult to do. ”This may reflect genetic differences between each batch of GM plants, possibly due to random insertion of the transgene into the plant genome, or that there were variations due to differing environmental conditions that each batch of GM plant tested were grown under,” says Bakke. [...] ”However, we did not see any dramatic effects on fish performance and health,” says Bakke.
2010-11-24
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How will we feed a dramatically increased world population in 2050? The title of this seminar suggests that genetically modified food may secure the world food supply. I have a strong opinion and have previously spoken clearly on these matters. I do not think that genetic modified food is necessary to achieve food security and secure the right to food for everyone. I believe that there are no magic technological bullets that will solve the emerging food crisis. We should confront this crisis in a multitude of different ways.
2010-02-19
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His government has said ’no’ to genetically modified seeds and other imports – three applications for GM maize are still pending. He said that His government was pursuing a different route – increasing crop productivity by releasing the untapped potential of grains to be water-efficient and nutrient-efficient. ”We know we will be challenged by international companies… They have patented their products and want to sell them in Norway,” [the Norwegian Minister of Agriculture and Food Lars Peder Brekk] said.
2008-10-29
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Setting up GMO-free zones in the Nordic countries could give the region a competitive advantage by producing organic GMO-free products. Moreover it will give the Nordic consumers the opportunity to make conscious consumer choices, as long as the products they buy are properly labelled. Therefore, the Nordic Council at its Session in Helsinki on Wednesday 29 October agreed that the Nordic governments should report on the opportunities for tightening current norms and regulations for the labelling of GMO products.
2008-09-08
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A world food crisis may transform once altruistic efforts to help African feed itself into acts of self preservation, as the planet runs low on key agricultural projects, delegates to the Third African Green Revolution Conference said Thursday. [...] In addition to focusing on how to help African farmers climb out of poverty, this conference also draws attention to the role increased African food production could play in countering soaring world food prices.
2008-06-13
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The Socialist Left Party (SV) and agrarian Centre Party (SP) are in an uproar against the import of genetically modified corn. The Directorate for Nature Management has recommended that two types of modified corn be allowed for use as food, fodder and further processing, but not for cultivation. Lars Haltbrekken, leader of the environmental group Norges Naturvernforbund (Friends of the Earth Norway), supports the Directorate in their ban on growing modified crops, but rejects import as being hypocritical.
2007-03-07
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A Norwegian professor predicts that genetically modified (GM) food will soon be accepted in Norway, but that farmers will then lose out. Professor Hilde-Gunn Opsahl Sorteberg at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) at Ås believes that GM products will be on Norwegian tables within ten years as the country follows after the growing international interest such food, newspaper Nationen reports. Sorteberg also predicts that Norwegian authorities will allow genetically modified ingredients in processed food within two years.
