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Industrial biotechnology for developing countries: The case for genetically modified biofuels in Kenya

机译：发展中国家的工业生物技术：肯尼亚的转基因生物燃料案例

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Attempts to diversify the energy portfolios of developed countries with green technologies have brought competition between food and fuel for crop production resources to the forefront of public policy debates. Biofuel policies in the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) mandate the long-term use of renewable energy in transportation, independent of production capacity and technical feasibility. Both the US and EU policies explicitly allow for biofuel imports and, hence, have the potential to provide developing countries with export opportunities. For example, the EU is seen as a market that could be supplied with biofuels produced in Kenya. As a result, contentious land acquisitions have been made in Kenya to make way for sugar cane and jatropha cultivation for biofuel production. One potential means of improving the efficiency of Kenya’s agricultural sector is the application of transgenic technologies. The objective of this article is to assess whether a biofuel industry could be developed in Kenya, based on the use of?genetically modified (GM) feedstocks to supply the EU demand for biofuel. This article concludes that GM agriculture will improve the economic returns for those Kenyan farmers willing to engage in the production of GM biofuel crops.
机译：尝试通过绿色技术使发达国家的能源组合多样化，已将粮食和燃料之间的竞争用于作物生产资源列为公共政策辩论的重中之重。欧盟（EU）和美国（US）的生物燃料政策要求在运输中长期使用可再生能源，而与生产能力和技术可行性无关。美国和欧盟的政策均明确允许进口生物燃料，因此有潜力为发展中国家提供出口机会。例如，欧盟被视为可以提供肯尼亚生产的生物燃料的市场。结果，肯尼亚争夺了土地，为甘蔗和麻风树栽培生物燃料的生产铺平了道路。提高肯尼亚农业部门效率的一种潜在手段是应用转基因技术。本文的目的是基于使用转基因原料来满足欧盟对生物燃料的需求，评估肯尼亚是否可以发展生物燃料产业。本文的结论是，转基因农业将改善那些愿意从事转基因生物燃料作物生产的肯尼亚农民的经济回报。

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