SOURCE: Clive James / Total all GE varieties in U.S. in 2007 Corn = 73% Cotton = 87% Soybean = 91%
M Acres Global Area of Biotech Crops, 1996 to 2014: By Crop (Million Hectares, Million Acres) Source: Clive James, 2014
Global Area of Biotech Crops, 1996 to 2014: By Trait (Million Hectares, Million Acres) Source: Clive James, 2014 M Acres
Global Adoption Rates (%) for Principal Biotech Crops (Million Hectares, Million Acres), 2014 Source: Clive James, 2014 Hectarage based on FAO Preliminary Data for M Acres % Soybean 68% Cotton 30% Maize 25% Canola Conventional Biotech
Source: Clive James, 2014 Global Area of Biotech Crops, 1996 to 2014: Industrial and Developing Countries (M Has, M Acres)
Biotech Crop Countries and Mega-Countries*, 2014
Global Area of Biotech Crops in 2006: by Country (Million Hectares)
SOURCE: USDA FAS Report FR Hectares of GE Corn Grown in France in 2005
SOURCE: Demont, M., Devos, Y. and Sanvido, O Regulating Coexistence - Another Barrier on the Path of Genetically Engineered Crops in Europe? ISB News Report, April 2009, pp Evolution of Bt-maize plantings in Spain (area in orange) and other EU Member States (area in grey) during , status in 2008 (black figures), and change from 2007 to 2008 (green and red figures). In 2008, France banned the cultivation of maize MON810 on its territory.
SOURCE: James, C Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: The First Thirteen Years, 1996 to International Service for the Acquisition of Agri- biotech Applications (ISAAA), Publication No. 39.
SOURCE: Capital Press, January 19,
SOURCE: "Plant research in Europe: Few new GM plants - Number of field trials still in decline". GMO Safety, 5/18/12 Number of release experiments with GM plants in Europe is decreasing. By May 2012, only 41 new releases (27 from companies) were submitted in the E.U. compared to over 100 in 2009 “Plant research in Europe: Few new GM plants – Number of field trials still in decline”
SOURCE: USDA-ERS.
SOURCE: Fernandez-Cornejo, J., Wechsler, S., Livingston, M. and Mitchell, L Genetically Engineered Crops in the United States. USDA Economic Research Service Report No. 162, February 2014.