Biotechnology essay competition: Biotechnology and sustainable food practices

摘要

Promoting environment awareness and green growth has been the ethos of Biotechnology Journal since its inception- Prof. Hans Giinter Gas-sen, our founding editor, was a keen supporter of exploring the potential of biotechnology for sustainable development . We first joined the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)'s World Environment Day awareness campaign in 2011 . Last year we initiated an essay competition on "Biotechnology and the Green Economy" open to secondary/high school students to promote biotechnology to a younger generation of audiences and also to seek their opinion on how biotechnology could contribute to a green economy [3].