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Section: Assessment & Impacts Date: Aug 12, 2018  Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289m as Jury Rules Glyphosate-based Herbicide Caused Man's Cancer Monsanto suffered a major blow with a jury ruling that the company was liable for a terminally ill man’s cancer, awarding him $289m in damages. » Read more ...   Section: Traits in Agriculture Date: Aug 09, 2018  US FDA Finds Low β-Carotene Content in Golden Rice The US FDA has found that the concentration of β-carotene in GM Golden Rice is too low to warrant a nutrient content claim. » Read more ...   Section: Assessment & Impacts Date: Aug 07, 2018  Global Glyphosate Pilot Study Shows Health Effects at ‘Safe’ Doses A global pilot study on the health effects of glyphosate-based herbicides has shown disrupting effects on sexual development, genes and beneficial gut bacteria at doses considered safe by the US-EPA. » Read more ...   Section: Policy and Regulation Date: Jul 27, 2018   EU Court of Justice Rules that Gene-Edited Organisms Are GMOs and Subject to GMO Regulations The EU Court of Justice has ruled that organisms obtained by the new generation of gene editing techniques are GMOs and are subject to the obligations laid down by GM regulations of the EU. » Read more ...   Section: Sustainable Systems Date: Jul 26, 2018  Farmers’ Seed Systems Best Defence Against Corporate Control of Agriculture Unlike agri-corporate giants that seek to control food and agriculture for profit, small farmers have found that the best way to save traditional agricultural knowledge is to grow seeds and give them away as a means to limit corporate control. » Read more ...   Section: Agriculture / Organisms Date: Jul 20, 2018  Failure of Oxitec’s GM Mosquito Field Trials in the Cayman Islands Documents and correspondence released under Freedom of Information requests appear to show that the controversial release of genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in the Cayman Islands is a failed project. » Read more ...   Section: Global Agreements and Fora Date: Jul 19, 2018  Discussions on sequence information unravel at Biodiversity meet Discussions at a subsidiary meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) unravelled spectacularly on the issue of sequence information of genetic resources. » Read more ...   Section: Global Agreements and Fora Date: Jul 18, 2018  Calls for Precaution on "Gene Drives" at Biodiversity Meeting Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), at a subsidiary meeting, have called for precaution when addressing organisms containing engineered gene drives. » Read more ...   Section: Sustainable Systems Date: Jul 17, 2018  Agroecology Beats Land and Water Scarcity With agroecology providing innovative water and production techniques, small farms in Brazil have been able to thrive despite drought. » Read more ...   Section: Sustainable Systems Date: Jul 13, 2018   Impressive Yield and Income Increases from SRI Project in West Africa A project implementing the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in West Africa has benefited some 50,000 rice farmers with yield increases of 54-153% and an average income gain of 41% compared to conventional farmers. » Read more ...

»  Biosafety Aspects of Genome-Editing Techniques »  CAP/SAM Raise Serious Concerns on Planned GM Mosquitoes Release »  The Genetic Engineering of Smallpox »  Biotechnology and Sustainable Development »  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   No benefit to imminent release of risky GM mosquitoes in Burkina Faso   Not available   1) Campaign To Stop Smallpox Genetic Engineering Date: January 28, 2014     2) Stop the Spread of Transgenes! Date: May 28, 2014

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