One of the claims of proponents of genetically modified crops is that the introduction of GM seeds increases the choice of farmers to choose the seeds to grow.

A new study published in Environmental Sciences Europe found the opposite: Farmers in a country that grew GM seeds saw their seed options decrease, while farmers in non-GM countries saw their seed choices increased.

The researchers used surveys of local and regional seed suppliers, transnational seed companies, and public national seed catalogs to estimate how real choice real-world maize farmers have in countries adopting varying degrees of GM crops (Austria, Germany, Spain, Switzerland).

The researchers found that farmers in European countries had more maize seed varieties than they had in the 1990s, despite restricting GM varieties. With the increasing adoption of GM varieties in Spain, Europe's leading GM corn producer country, there has been a decline in farmers' choices for the total number of maize varieties available.

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