New EU Project to Evaluate Impact of GM Crops
A new EU project was launched on December 1, 2011 to evaluate the impacts of GM crops in European environments using scientific data. The project called AMIGA, short for Assessing and Monitoring the Impacts of Genetically Modified Plants on Agro-ecosystems, will run for 4 years.
The AMIGA consortium includes 22 partners like research centers, universities, state agencies, and private enterprises with experts in the fields of project research and analysis of various aspects of GM plants and their cultivation. The National Agency for New Technologies, Energy, and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) of Italy serves as the coordinator of the project. The project activities include case studies on maize and potato, which are the two GM crops currently approved for cultivation in Europe.
Read the press release at http://cordis.europa.eu/wire/index.cfm?fuseaction=article.Detail&rcn=28673&rev=0. The official website of AMIGA will soon be published at http://cordis.europa.eu/wire/index.cfm?fuseaction=article.Detail&rcn=28673&rev=0.
This article is part of the Crop Biotech Update, a weekly summary of world developments in agri-biotech for developing countries, produced by the Global Knowledge Center on Crop Biotechnology, International Service for the Aquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications SEAsiaCenter (ISAAA)
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