This study highlights the lack of rigorous assessment and regulation of nutritionally-enhanced GM plants that could have potential harmful effects on human health. […]
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A large group of developing countries has proposed that the WTO’s intellectual property agreement be amended to require the disclosure of origin of genetic resources and/or associated traditional knowledge in patent applications. […] A TWN report on the outcomes of the discussion of destruction of smallpox virus stocks at the 64th WHA (2011). […] Activists submitted this report to the Competition Commission to request for an investigation into Monsanto’s extraordinary market power in South Africa. […] This UNCTAD policy brief on “Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in LDCs” calls for a fundamental transformation in agriculture, based on sustainable agriculture, and not chemical intensification of agricultural production. […] Impacts of the Massive Food Production Programme, GMOs and cash crops in four villages in the Amathole District Municipality. […] Forty-three CSOs have written an open letter calling on delegates to the 64th WHA to unequivocally terminate research with smallpox virus and to fix a prompt and irrevocable date for the destruction of the stocks. […] This informational briefing explores the need to maintain clarity about smallpox research and an essential public health purpose. […] As the 64th World Health Assembly opens on 16 May, global interest is turning again to the issue of destruction of smallpox (variola) virus stocks. […] These articles make the case for the destruction of the remaining stocks of smallpox virus, held at two WHO repositories in the US and Russia. […] |
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