yt:channel:UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg AcademicsReview https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg 2010-02-19T18:18:07+00:00 yt:video:3xQvN3nnZE0 3xQvN3nnZE0 UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg AcademicsReview https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg 2013-08-22T21:13:43+00:00 2017-05-29T11:09:00+00:00 Calestous Juma on GMO economic benefits to African Farmers Professor Juma speaks on economic opportunities and other benefits of GMOs for small African farmers. Cotton is an interesting example of this, where if you take Burkina Faso as an example, or India is another example where farmers have been able to increase their revenue from being able to revive agriculture. And by increasing the revenue to have income to afford buying other commodities, and so if you take Africa, for example, roughly half of the hungry are also farmers, they are not producing enough. And one way by which they can solve their famine problems, or hunger problems is in fact to generate additional revenue. And so, being able to adapt crops that increase their revenue allows them to be able to buy food which may be grown by other farmers. So production of genetically modified cotton, for example, may stimulate the production of non-gm corn in other areas of the country, which means that it helps to raise the economic performance of the country, and almost everybody benefits from that. yt:video:gQeidmvS-z8 gQeidmvS-z8 UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg AcademicsReview https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg 2013-08-22T21:09:52+00:00 2017-02-21T11:56:02+00:00 Calestous Juma intellectual property, trade & science-based approach to GMO regulations Professor Juma addresses the issues intellectual property, GMO research in Africa, trade and the need for science-based regulatory systems: There has been an argument that adopting genetically modified crops exposing developing countries to large corporations that have monopoly over the technologies themselves. And the response that has been proposed is to limit intellectual property protection. I would actually argue that developing countries need to do exactly the opposite, which is to build up institutions of intellectual property protection so they can be considered and seen as legitimate and serious partners that respect other people's ideas. And if they start to do that themselves, they will also start to give confidence to their own scientists, that if they develop their ideas, take for example African scientists that they can go in and conduct research and come up with new ideas which also will be respected by their own governments, but also by the international community. So the argument that we need to reduce and diminish and water down intellectual property rights that by doing that they might benefit developing is absolutely fallacious argument. We need to think about ways by which we can give incentives both to foreign companies that can have the confidence and the willingness to share their technologies, because they're not going to share their technologies unless their institutions that guarantee that property rights will be respected. : I think the best way to do that is to build up capacity in developing countries institutions so that governments in developing countries can engage their own scientists to be part of the regulatory debates. So that when you have scientists from particular country talking about the safety of those products, that will generate a certain level of trust that you cannot get if the information is being provided by scientists from outside that country. So in that respect, I think that working with developing country universities to build up their competence so that they become players in the field of biotechnology is the best way by which you can reassure the populations in those countries, that this product is not just safe but there is also interest to those countries because they would see their own scientists participating in it. What seems to have happened over the last 16 years, is that we now have 29 countries that commercially genetically modified crops. And this is not in significant countries, this is almost all the Americas or the major economies of the Americas. All of the major economies in Asia and we're starting to see interest in African countries. I think we are starting to see, really, the margins of a new block of countries that want to regulate new products using science, and we're likely to start seeing more trade among these countries. So my view is that in fact the debate on genetically modified is going to redefine global trade in those countries that trade produce a genetically modified crops are going to start trading among themselves because they share something in common, which is a science-based approach to regulation. And the second thing that we're starting to see already is Europe, which has been viewed by many, as the source of assistance to new biotechnologies is starting to shift it's approach and starting to invest in what it calls the bio-economy, which is to start thinking about addressing an ecological challenges by using modern technologies which include biotechnology. So in the next 5 to 10 years, in fact we're likely to see Europe come back to be an important player in the biotechnology debate, but it's going to be through the environmental window as the economic window in terms of looking at employment generation. And so my advice, particularly to emerging markets in developing countries that have been following policies that were formulated by Europe 15 to 20 years ago, need to look at what Europe is doing today because Europe is revising its position. And it would be unfortunate for Europe to revise its position and then leave developing countries with policies that are inconsistent with what everybody else is doing. yt:video:b-k6gqHpHSs b-k6gqHpHSs UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg AcademicsReview https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg 2013-08-22T20:58:35+00:00 2017-02-21T11:56:02+00:00 Calestous Juma on GMO biofortification to enhance nutritional quality of foods in Africa Professor Juma Nutrition is becoming a significant area of interest for two reasons: 1. Is because of awareness on the need to have nutritious food, something that has not been a part of public policy in the past. 2. Many crops consumed by people in developing countries, particularly, traditional crops are adapted to deal with drought or there easy to transport, people grow sorghum in Africa because it's lighter you can carry it home, but in many cases it also lacks certain nutritional components. And one way to address that is through genetic modification by enhancing the nutritional content of the foods. We're seeing very significant investment by African countries in casaba production, partly to deal with the challenges of climate change. Casava is more adaptable to a variety of climatic changes. But it also lacks other nutrients, for example, vitamins. So genetic modification could be a way by which you could help to enhance the nutritional content of these foods. yt:video:0NEZqvA9D9Q 0NEZqvA9D9Q UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg AcademicsReview https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg 2013-08-22T19:45:34+00:00 2017-02-21T11:56:02+00:00 Calestous Juma on benefits of crop biotechnology (GMOs) and pest control in Africa Calestous Juma is the Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project. "One area that is very critical is pest control, because that's one issue that they have to deal with many of the crops that they grow depend heavily on the use of pesticides. In many cases, the pests have already developed a resistance. And so they are entering into new agricultural markets or reviving collapsed industries like has been done in the case countries like Burkina Faso. This is only possible because of biotechnology exists..." yt:video:fF75oQzfD0c fF75oQzfD0c UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg AcademicsReview https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg 2013-08-22T19:20:45+00:00 2017-02-21T11:56:02+00:00 Calestous Juma: Role of plant biotechnology (GMOs) and food security in Africa Calestous Juma is the Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project. He is co-chair of the African Union's High-Level Panel on Science, Technology and Innovation. "Biotechnology is probably the Cinderella of economic transformation in the developing countries. We have gone through a phase in which we are starting to see the significant impact of information and communications technologies. The next wave of really significant contribution to the economic growth, particularly in agriculture is going to come from advances in genomics and that's where I think technology has significant role to play, and it's starting to show its contributions in a number of countries... in the agricultural sector, we're starting to see small scale farmers, lower resource farmers becoming the beneficiaries of advances in agricultural biotechnology. And this simply because if you add value in small increments in the value of resources benefits the poorest farmers, in fact more than it benefits the rich farmers. So the old argument that this technology most likely to in fact displace a small scale farmers is no longer valid. The evidence shows that in fact the bulk of the beneficiaries of the technology are small scale farmers... yt:video:9PrSWzxBjwQ 9PrSWzxBjwQ UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg AcademicsReview https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg 2012-06-24T22:22:06+00:00 2017-04-04T21:27:08+00:00 Illinois Professor Explains Regulatory Process for GMO Foods Professor Bruce Chassey at the University of Illinois has spent more than twenty years evaluating the safety of foods and feeds produced from agricultural biotechnology. Chassey explains how these foods are regulated both nationally and globally, and discusses the rigorous science that helps ensure foods derived from genetically modified crops are as safe and nutritious as non-GMO products. Learn more about the science of biotechnology at http://academicsreview.org/ . yt:video:n6WuVSjr7JE n6WuVSjr7JE UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg AcademicsReview https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg 2012-06-24T22:14:50+00:00 2017-07-25T19:41:30+00:00 UC Davis Professor Explains the Science of GMO Food Safety Professor Martina Newell McGloughlin of the University of California at Davis explains the rigorous safety testing completed on all foods derived from crop biotechnology. McGloughlin says GMO food crops are more thoroughly tested than any non-GMO products in the history of agriculture, and explains how the same basic building blocks of DNA make up all genetically modified and conventionally grown foods. Learn more about the science of biotechnology at http://academicsreview.org/. yt:video:fUB7FkhY4po fUB7FkhY4po UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg AcademicsReview https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg 2012-06-24T22:06:54+00:00 2017-02-21T11:56:02+00:00 Iowa State Professor: How Biotech Crops Improve Biodiversity Iowa State entomologist Richard Hellmich, who has been evaluating the safety of bio-engineered crops, discusses the environmental benefits of biotechnology in agriculture. He explains how GMO crops have helped reduce pesticide use, increasing biodiversity where GE crops are grown and providing benefits for both GMO and non-GMO farmers alike. yt:video:nNOsuqDkpPo nNOsuqDkpPo UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg AcademicsReview https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg 2012-06-24T21:59:55+00:00 2017-02-21T11:56:02+00:00 Iowa Professor: How Scientists Evaluate GMO Biosafety Iowa State University professor Richard Hellmich is a research entomologist who has been evaluating the safety of genetically modified crops for nearly eighteen years. He explains how scientists determine whether genetically modified crops are safe for the environment, and discusses some of the sustainability problems associated with non-GMO agriculture. Learn more about the science of biotechnology at http://academicsreview.org/. yt:video:xOfAhtybis8 xOfAhtybis8 UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg AcademicsReview https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg 2012-06-24T21:44:50+00:00 2017-07-18T16:42:25+00:00 Georgia Professor Explains the Role of GMO Crops in Agriculture Sustainability University of Georgia professor Wayne Parrott explains how genetically modified crops can play a key role in agricultural sustainability improvements, from increasing biodiversity and yields to increasing quality of life for subsistence farmers. Parrot discusses how GMO versus non-GMO crops can reduce the use of fossil fuels, decrease soil erosion, and improve the land for wildlife. Learn more about the science of biotechnology at http://academicsreview.org/. yt:video:6eYYXZD3fUg 6eYYXZD3fUg UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg AcademicsReview https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJup5fABUPjz2OVCASdf6dg 2012-06-24T21:26:44+00:00 2017-06-07T09:04:59+00:00 Georgia Professor on Sustainability, Safety of GMO Crops Professor Wayne Parrott of the University of Georgia talks about sustainability and biotech or genetically modified crops. Speaking from the oldest agricultural sustainability experiment in the country, Parrott discusses the safety and environmental benefits of GMO versus non-GMO crops. Learn more about the science of biotechnology at http://academicsreview.org/.