Time for Australia to join the GM revolution

If Australia can find a way to successfully embrace these seven critical reforms, then it may be lucky enough to save its agricultural future before technological obsolescence snuffs it out.

Over the past 10,000 years, humanity has almost continuously laboured to improve the quality, adaptability, variability and yield of its agricultural production. This process has transitioned from ancient domestication techniques, to the first Columbian Exchange, to the British Agricultural Revolution, through to the adoption of mechanisation and the Green Revolution. Wherever one looks, humanity has nearly always strived to lift its agrarian operational performance.

In today's world, the latest Columbian Exchange is the successor to this important legacy. While many of its concepts are new, its fundamental character remains the same – it represents the next revolution in human agricultural affairs.

For the past 20 years, Australia has chosen to ignore this reality. This situation cannot be permitted to continue any longer. The time has come to join the revolution.