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GM Crops for Developing World in the Era of Climate Change: For Increase of Farmer’s Income, Poverty Alleviation, Nutrition and Health

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Genetic Manipulation in Plants for Mitigation of Climate Change

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Overexpansion of population and poor availability of resources in developing countries have resulted in serious problems of poverty, malnutrition, and poor health. Rapidly changing climate as a result of global warming is making the situation worse. Farmers are deviating from agriculture due to increased input costs and low benefits. Tools of plant biotechnology like GM crops have improved the present situation and undoubtedly have contributed to the increase of farmer’s income, nutrition and health, and poverty reduction leading to a step toward food and nutritional security in the developing world. As a result, GM crops have emerged as the fastest adopted crop technology in the history of modern agriculture in spite of a strong opposition initially, which is nullifying gradually.

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PKJ is grateful to HSCST, Chandigarh, and UGC, Department of Biotechnology and Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, for financial support to his laboratory for improvement of grain legumes and other crops. MS is thankful to HSCST, Chandigarh, and Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi, for JRF; Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, for SRF; and Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, for the Young Scientist Award.

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Sainger, M. et al. (2015). GM Crops for Developing World in the Era of Climate Change: For Increase of Farmer’s Income, Poverty Alleviation, Nutrition and Health. In: Jaiwal, P., Singh, R., Dhankher, O. (eds) Genetic Manipulation in Plants for Mitigation of Climate Change. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2662-8_11

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