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• ↓ Glyphosate use plays a key role in reducing global carbon dioxide emissions from agriculture
• ↓ What is (risk) appropriate regulation of gene editing technology?
• ↓ Feeding the UK sustainably: time for policy inaction to end
• ↓ European Court ruling on neonicotinoids further highlights muddle created by ongoing EU regulatory inconsistency and dysfunction
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"6 January 2026. Glyphosate, the world’s most used herbicide annually provides a positive contribution to reducing global carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions arising from agricultural production of between -32.17 billion kg and -45.18 billion kg, equal to taking between 21.3 and 29.9 million cars off the road each year. This is a primary conclusion of a new peer reviewed paper in the journal GM Crops and Food by agricultural economist Graham Brookes. This positive contribution stems from glyphosate’s instrumental role in facilitating a shift in farming production practices that are tillage-based into conservation tillage systems based on reduced and no tillage."

"Despite the much-hyped expectation that Europe was on course to follow other parts of the world in removing GMO-style regulatory requirements from gene edited (GE) crops, with EU elections looming and no agreement in sight the bloc now risks slipping back towards precautionary inertia. Summarising their recent peer-reviewed paper exploring risk-appropriate regulation for gene editing, agricultural economists Graham Brookes and Stuart Smyth warn that we must learn the lessons from past experience of divergent international regulation of agricultural innovations. The impact of over-precautionary EU regulation of gene editing will not only disadvantage European agriculture, but will also compromise global efforts to address urgent climate, biodiversity and food security challenges, they argue."

"As Ministers prepare to unveil a new land use framework for England this autumn, the scientific evidence behind land sparing as the most effective farm policy for delivering food production, climate and biodiversity goals is compelling. Why then does the UK government continue to favour a land sharing approach through its environmental land management schemes? The recent ‘re-interpretation’ of an expert land use report for the large, land-owning NGOs who commissioned it may provide some clues, writes agricultural economist Graham Brookes."

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Specialist provider of advisory & consultancy services to agriculture and other natural resource-based industries

Glyphosate use plays a key role in reducing global carbon dioxide emissions from agriculture

What is (risk) appropriate regulation of gene editing technology?

Feeding the UK sustainably: time for policy inaction to end

European Court ruling on neonicotinoids further highlights muddle created by ongoing EU regulatory inconsistency and dysfunction

2022 to current analysis