Thirty-two countries have granted cultivation approvals to genetically modified (GM) crops as of October 2024. This indicates a significant growth in utilizing biotechnology as a sustainable tool to address global challenges, such as food security and climate change . The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications Inc. (ISAAA Inc.
) released two new infographics highlighting the “Countries Approving GM Crop Cultivation” and the “Contributions of Biotech Crops to Food Security, Sustainability, and Climate Change Solutions.”In 2019, a total of 29 countries planted GM crops globally. Five years later, the number of adopting countries increased to 32, with three additional countries from Africa that granted cultivation approvals. In 2020, Kenya announced the approval of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton after the five-year field trials exhibited effective resistance to African bollworm while increasing the yield and lowering the cost of production. Kenya also lifted the 10-year ban on GM product importation and cultivation by a Cabinet decision on October 3, 2022. While this decision has been challenged in court, Kenya has continued with research and advanced other crops, including insect-resistant Bt maize, virus-resistant cassava, and late blight-resistant potato in the research and biosafety regulatory approval pipeline. Ghana is the latest addition to the biotech-adopting countries in 2024 with the commercial approval for GM cowpea with resistance to pod-borer developed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute. Burkina Faso has come back to the list of GM crop-adopting countries this year with the cultivation approval of Bt cotton hybrids from 2024 to 2033. The Bt cotton-producing country reported seven years of adoption from 2008 until 2015, the same years when the country was hailed as the top cotton producer in the region
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