Article - New plant breeding techniques to boost resilience of food system
The EU wants to increase the sustainability of its food supply and reduce the need for pesticides with new rules on plant breeding techniques.
- The EU wants to increase the sustainability of its food supply and reduce the need for pesticides with new rules on plant breeding techniques.
- Plant breeding is an ancient practice used to create new plant varieties from existing varieties to obtain qualities such as higher yields, enhanced nutrition or better resistance to disease.
- Nowadays, thanks to advances in biotechnology, new plant varieties can be developed faster and in a more precise manner by editing their genetic structure.
- New EU rules
In July 2023, the European Commission proposed a new regulation on plants produced by certain new genomic techniques.