Countries shaded in brown have high biotech crop value, accounting for 98 percent of global biotech crop value and planted areas in 2003-2004 based on a study by Runge and Ryan (below). White and black dots are linked to select global plant biotechnology research centers.
Soybeans, cotton, maize (corn) and canola accounted for nearly all crop values and planted areas. Other countries with a significant level of commercial biotech crop production include South Africa, Mexico, Australia, India, Romania, Spain, the Philippines, and Uruguay (Runge and Ryan, 2004).
Additional crops of biotech research interest include alfalfa, apple, banana, barley, carrot, cassava, citrus, cocoa, coconut, coffee, flax, grape, lettuce, oil palm, olive, papaya, pea/bean, peanut, pineapple, potato, rice, sorghum, spinach, squash, strawberry, sugar beet, sugar cane, sunflower, tomato, watermelon, and wheat (Runge and Ryan, 2004).
See also "GM World View," Nature, 2003.
and
"Global Status of GM Crops in 2006," Clive James, ISAAA, 2006.
References
- Map based on C. Ford Runge and Barry Ryan, "The Global Diffusion of Plant Biotechnology: International Adoption and Research in 2004". [PDF] A report prepared for the Council for Biotechnology Information, Washington, DC, December 2004.
- Gary H. Toenniessen, John C. O'Toole, and Joseph DeVries, "Advances in plant biotechnology and its adoption in developing countries," Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 6 (2): 191-198, 2003.
- Joel I. Cohen and Robert Paarlberg, "Unlocking Crop Biotechnology in Developing Countries--A Report from the Field," World Development,
32 (9): 2004, 1563-1577, 2004.
- Global Crop Diversity Trust
- Gregory D. Graff and David Zilberman, "Explaining Europe's Resistance to Agricultural Biotechnology," Update: Agricultural and Resource Economics, 7 (5): 1-4, May/June 2004.
- Institute of Medicine and National Research Council, "Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods: Approaches to Assessing Unintended Health Effects" (2004)
- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research - CGIAR
- Agricultural Biotechnology United States Department of Agriculture - USDA
- U.S. Regulatory Agencies Unified Biotechnology Website
- Biotechnology United States Agency for International Development - USAID
- AgNIC Gateway University of Maryland
- Center for Food and Agricultural Policy University of Minnesota
- Numerous plant biotechnology research centers listed at AgBiotechNet
- Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology
- The Rockefeller Foundation: Agriculture
- International Service for the Acquisition of
Agri-biotech Applications - ISAAA
- Checkbiotech.org
- AgBioWorld.org
Map is a Mercator projection that exaggerates the size of areas far from the equator.
Global biotechnology crops map cited by:
Scientific American editors' blog "Where in the World is Biotechnology?"
Global Maps of Human Technological Development
Maps created with GMT software
Updated 3/3/08
William Hoffman - hoffm003@umn.edu
Disclaimer: This work is a communications project of William Hoffman, a non-faculty employee of the University of Minnesota, and not the University of Minnesota. It is meant to help inform public discussion of stem cell research and human development.
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