Negotiations under the UN Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to establish an international regime for liability and redress for damage caused by genetically modified organisms (GMOs) failed to conclude as mandated. […]
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The following article, published in The Ecologist, makes the case that organic farming is productive enough, particularly in developing countries, to feed the world. […] The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, focusing on ex situ collections in gene banks should not be viewed as the solution to seed conservation. […] Documents produced for the 5th meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group of Legal and Technical Experts on Liability and Redress in the context of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety […] A critical review by the African Centre for Biosafety on the GM potatoes experiment in South Africa. […] Sustainable agricultural practices, which include organic farming, that offer many benefits to the environment, biodiversity, local livelihoods, and human health, are viable alternatives to genetic engineering. […] This is the third annual report from the online GM Contamination Register, which reviews reported cases of contamination and illegal plantings and releases of GM (genetically modified) organisms. […] The issue of agricultural biodiversity was discussed at the 13th meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) technical body held in Rome in Feb 2008. […] A new report written for Greenpeace by Professor Pete Smith from the University of Aberdeen, a lead author on the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, examines the direct and indirect impacts of agriculture on climate change. […] This report shows that growing of GM crops has increased the use of harmful pesticides in major biotech crop producing countries. […] |
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