Progress after tough talks on liability regime for GMOs

Four years of negotiations on an international liability and redress regime for GMOs under the Biosafety Protocol have failed to conclude as planned. […]

Greenpeace: Overview of the Current Text on Liability and Redress

Paper prepared for the 4th meeting of the Conference of Parties of the Biosafety Protocol, 12-14 May 2008 […]

New policies to address food crisis needed

Comments from the Oakland Institute on the food crisis and appropriate policies to address it. […]

Civil Society Statement on the IAASTD (Spanish)

Declaracion de 20 organizaciones de la sociedad civil sobre el resultado de la IAASTD. […]

Civil Society Statement on the IAASTD

Statement from 20 civil society organizations on the outcome of the IAASTD in South Africa. […]

Overhaul of agriculture systems needed

The IAASTD concluded that a radical change is needed in agriculture policy and practice, in order to address hunger and poverty, social inequities and environmental sustainability questions. […]

Biosafety Evaluation of GE SAAVI MVA-C Multigene HIV Vaccine

An independent expert biosafety evaluation of the application made for trial release of GE SAAVI MVA-C multigene HIV vacccine in South Africa […]

No Agreement Yet on Liability Regarding GMOs

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. […]

Benefits of Organic Farming

The following article, published in The Ecologist, makes the case that organic farming is productive enough, particularly in developing countries, to feed the world. […]

Global Seed Vault cannot replace on-farm conservation

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, focusing on ex situ collections in gene banks should not be viewed as the solution to seed conservation. […]