Now more than ever, Europe needs to base its future policies to tackle major environmental, energy and food security challenges, on sound science and responsible innovation.

The EU must contribute more effectively towards informing citizens about agricultural biotechnology, its safety, its advantages and the existing regulatory framework.

We need to nurture and promote coherent pro-growth and pro-development policies that do not discriminate against this promising technology.

If you knew that…

• The use of GM crops can increase yields by 6-30% on the same amount of land.
• The use of GM crops can result in permanent reductions in fuel use and CO2 emissions due to less ploughing.
• In 2007, CO2 not emitted because of global biotech crops was equivalent to removing 6.9 million cars from the road for one year.
• Water stress areas in Europe are expected to increase from 19% today to 35% by 2070. Field trials have shown that drought-tolerant crops can yield up to 20% more than their non-GM counterparts.
• According to the European Commission study published in March 2010, 77% of European citizens agree that the EU should encourage its farmers to take advantage of the latest developments in agricultural biotechnology.

…would you give Europeans the choice to grow and buy GM crops and foods? Support free choice.

Support the development of policy based on sound science and responsible innovation to harness the benefit of GM crops and technology!