biotechnology, chemistry, and the nine billion
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Senior Fellow Val Giddings, as part of "Innovation Day" 2011, presents on the importance of chemistry in evolving sustainable agricultural practices. He argues both Green Revolution Solutions (internal involving topical applications of pesticides/herbicides, external apps of fertilizers) and Doubly Green Revolution Solutions (building on GR but adding solutions from work with internal chemistry) are essential and indispensible to feeding a world population of billions.TRANSCRIPT
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20 September 2011
Biotechnolog y, Chemistry, and the
Nine Billion L. Val Giddings, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, ITIF
Chemical Heritage Foundation
315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
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“The greatest challenge of the 21st century: feeding 9 billion people with a sustainable agricultural production system.”
--Chrispeels, 2000
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1999 -- 70% of people grow what they eat 2025 -- 50% will live in cities, will need to be fed through market channels.
GLOBAL DEMOGRAPHY
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“It took some 10,000 years to expand food production to the current level of about 5 billion tons per year. By 2025, we will have to nearly double current production again.”
--Norman Borlaug, 2000
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“…prices above historic equilibrium levels during the next ten years…” higher costs for animal feed demand increase 100% over 40y
FAO Projections…
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How can we increase production by 100% in 40 years?
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To double production FAO estimates gains will come from:
additional farmlands 20% increased intensity 10% innovative technologies 70%
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20th Century ~ Chemistry fertilizers & pesticides (munitions…) green revolution saved billions through chemistry 21st Century ~ Biology nucleic acids greater challenges; require more complex solutions chemistry will remain indispensible
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Where does chemistry fit in?
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“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated…” -- Mark Twain
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…fertilizers, pesticides and transgenes are the best possible
protectors of the planet.
-----The Economist, “Ears of Plenty: The story of man’s staple food”
24 December 2005.
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“A truly extraordinary variety of alternatives to the chemical control of insects is available. All have this in common: They are biological solutions, based on understanding of the living organisms they seek to control. …Some of the most interesting of the recent work is concerned with ways of forging weapons from the insects’ own life processes.”
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“A truly extraordinary variety of alternatives to the chemical control of insects is available. All have this in common: They are biological solutions, based on understanding of the living organisms they seek to control. …Some of the most interesting of the recent work is concerned with ways of forging weapons from the insects’ own life processes.” --Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962
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It’s ALL chemistry… chemistry is the keystone.
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Where are we headed?
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Green Revolution Solutions = external involve topical applications of pesticides/herbicides, external apps of fertilizers Doubly Green Revolution Solutions: build on GR but add solutions from work with internal chemistry Both are essential and indispensible
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Products of agricultural biotechnology are becoming the new “conventional” standard
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Global Area of Biotech Crops, 1996 to 2009: Industrial and Developing Countries (M Has, M Acres)
Source: Clive James, 2010
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M Acres
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1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Total
Industrial
Developing
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Global Area of Biotech Crops, 1996 to 2009: By Crop (Million Hectares, Million Acres)
Source: Clive James, 2010
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25
49
74
99
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173
M Acres
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1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Soybean
Maize
Cotton
Canola
198
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Global Area of Biotech Crops, 1996 to 2009: By Trait (Million Hectares, Million Acres)
Source: Clive James, 2010
M Acres
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1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Herbicide Tolerance
Insect Resistance (Bt)
Herb Tolerance/Insect resistance
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Soybean Cotton Maize Canola
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77% 49% 26% 21%
Conventional Biotech
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445 M Acres
Global Adoption Rates (%) for Principal Biotech Crops (Million Hectares, Million Acres), 2009
Source: Clive James, 2010
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Biotech Crop Countries and Mega-Countries, 2009
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A record 14 million farmers, in 25 countries, planted 134 million hectares (330 million acres) in 2009, a sustained increase of 7% or 9 million hectares (22 million acres) over 2008.
Source: Clive James, 2009.
GLOBAL AREA OF BIOTECH CROPS Million Hectares (1996 to 2009)
25 Biotech Crop Countries Total Hectares
Industrial Developing
“Trait Hectares”
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1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
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Over the next five years, we anticipate…
17 new soybean events (currently ~5) From 9 maize events to 24 From 4 canola to 8 From 12 cotton to 27 From 1* rice to 15 From 1* or 2 potatoes to 8 From 7 to 23 minor crops R&D on at least 57 crops in 63 countries
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Technology source
Commercialization
current pending
Regulatory approval pipeline
Advanced R&D
Projected total by 2015
USA and EU 24 7 10 26 67
Asia 9 0 11 34 54
Latin America 0 0 2 1 3
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1st generation = agronomic traits 2nd gen = quality/consumer traits 3rd gen = GURTS/ inducible traits 4th gen = complex, polygenic traits: water metabolism, customized biofuels, N2 fixation, etc.
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“…Societies initially lacking an advantage either acquire it from societies possessing it or (if they fail to do so) are replaced by those other societies.” --Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs and Steel; W.W. Norton, 1998, p. 407