Society will have to rethink its attitudes to GM technology and accept an inevitable role for human excrement in the food chain, according to scientists at the University of Sheffield.
The challenges of modern day agriculture are numerous: climate change, soil degradation, water shortages and growing demand.
A team led by Dr Duncan Cameron and Jurriaan Ton, from the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, believes that UK farming’s inevitable future will be a combination of genetically modified crops on organic farms fertilised by human waste.
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Farming of the future GM crops could rely heavily on Humanure
