Proceedings of the Conference Epigenetics, Transgenic Plants & Risk Assessment

30 years after Asilomar, scientists explained why the technology to create GMOs is not precise and not controllable. […]

Impossible Coexistence

Seven years of GMOs have contaminated organic and conventional maize in Spain. The report examines two cases in the regions of Aragón and Catalonia. […]

Update on Destruction of Variola Virus Stocks (March 2006)

This paper provides an update on developments since the publication ‘The Genetic Engineering of Smallpox’ in 2005. It takes into account events from the 58th World Health Assembly (May 2005) through the present. […]

Briefing Paper on Transgenic Trees

Given the negative impacts of transgenic trees, a coalition of organisations and individuals are raising the call for a global ban on the commercial release of transgenic trees into the environment. […]

The Status of GM Pharmaceutical Crop Research in South Africa

A briefing report on the status of GM pharmaceutical crop research in South Africa. […]

How the CBD upheld moratorium on ‘Terminator Technology’

After a week of intense negotiations, the UN CBD announced that the de facto moratorium on field and commercial releases of ‘Terminator Technology’ be re-affirmed. […]

GM soybean: Latin America’s New Coloniser

In Latin America, the frontiers to soybean production are being pushed back aggressively in all directions at a breathtaking rate. The implications to farmers and communities are discussed in the report. […]

New Report Points to Widespread Biopiracy in Africa

A new report exposing rampant biopiracy in Africa was released at the UN CBD meeting in Granada in Jan 2006. Chee Yoke Heong highlights some of the findings of this report which made a strong impact on the participants. […]

Is There Space for Indigenous Peoples in the Negotiations on Access and Benefit-Sharing?

There is a strong need to accord to indigenous peoples full and effective participation within the CBD process. What is needed, argues Jennifer Tauli Corpuz, is the opening up of more dialogue between indigenous peoples and the countries of the South. […]

CBD’s Terminator Technology moratorium reaffirmed, but weakened

Although the CBD Working Group meeting in Granada reaffirmed the UN moratorium on the controversial Terminator Technology, other new recommendations adopted at the meeting may serve to open the door to its later approval. […]