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Section: Policy and Regulation Date: Jul 28, 2010  Scientific Opinion in Support of Hungary's Moratorium on GM Potato An opinion of Hungarian scientific experts in support of the Hungarian moratorium on GM Amflora potato. » Read more ...   Section: Policy and Regulation Date: Jul 22, 2010  GM In the Dock: US Courts Step In Where Safety Regulators Fail A series of briefings examining a number of US court cases on the legality of the authorisation of GM crops, while exposing how regulators have disregard the law and the precautionary principle. » Read more ...   Section: Global Agreements and Fora Date: Jul 14, 2010  Benefit Sharing Protocol Text Negotiations Finally Start Governments that are Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity finally started to negotiate the text of a draft protocol on access and benefit sharing on 10 July 2010. » Read more ...   Section: Trends in Industry Date: Jul 06, 2010  Herbicide Resistant Plants Trigger 'Arms Race' Among Chemical Companies Chemical companies are racing to develop new GM crops or to use old herbicides to attack weeds that are increasingly immune to herbicides. » Read more ...   Section: Sustainable Systems Date: Jun 30, 2010  Organic Farming Gives Indian Farmers Greater Financial Security This report finds that organic cotton farming that include practicing crop diversity can be more profitable than merely growing GM cotton. » Read more ...   Section: Global Agreements and Fora Date: Jun 27, 2010  Treaty on Liability for GMO Damage Closer to Completion A TWN report on the outcomes of the meeting of the Friends of the Co-Chairs on Liability and Redress in the Context of the Bioafety Protocol in Kuala Lumpur in June 2010. » Read more ...   Section: Global Agreements and Fora Date: Jun 15, 2010  Imminent Threat of Damage from GMOs A TWN briefing on the concept of imminent threat of damage, an issue under negotiations on Liability and Redress in the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. » Read more ...   Section: Global Agreements and Fora Date: Jun 15, 2010  Financial Security:The Example of the Philippine Environmental Guarantee Fund A TWN briefing on financial security under the Cartagena Protocol on BIosafety: a Philippines Case » Read more ...   Section: Global Agreements and Fora Date: Jun 03, 2010  TWN Comments on Draft Civil Liability Guidelines TWN's comments on the draft civil liability guidelines prepared by the 'Group of Friends of the Co-Chairs on liability and redress in the context of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety' (GFCC). » Read more ...

»  Genetic Engineering and Omitted Health Research »  Safety Considerations for Genetically Engineered Rice »  The Genetic Engineering of Smallpox »  Impact of Glyphosate Resistant Palmer Pigweed on US Agriculture »  Why Biotech Patents Are Patently Absurd - Scientific Briefing on TRIPs and Related Issues »  Capacity Building and the Biosafety Protocol: A TWN report »  Model Law for Safety in Biotechnology for Africa »  Post-Market Oversight of Biotech Foods: Is the System Prepared? »  Biotechnology and Indigenous People   GE Backslide: The Impact of Glyphosate-Resistant Palmer Pigweed on Agriculture in the United States     1) 3rd Meeting of the Group of the Friends of the Co-Chairs on Liability and Redress in the Context of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety Date: June 15, 2010 to June 19, 2010 Venue: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia     2) Resumed 9th meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing Date: July 10, 2010 to July 16, 2010 Venue: Montreal, Canada     3) Holistic Foundations for Assessment and Regulation of Genetic Engineering and Genetically Modified Organisms, Tromso, Norway Date: August 01, 2010 to August 13, 2010 Venue: Tromso, Norway     1) Campaign To Stop Smallpox Genetic Engineering Date: May 05, 2010

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