Source: GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 7/15/20

Farmers who grow biotech crops have earned an additional $225 billion and greatly reduced agriculture’s contribution to climate change, according to a just-released report examining the 22-year period 1996-2018, “GM crops: global socio-economic and environmental impacts 1996-2018.” As added benefits, biotech crop cultivation has limited the expansion of land use for farming and reduced pesticide use by 776 million kilograms, concluded Graham Brookes & Peter Barfoot of PG Economics, a London-based agricultural consulting company.

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