The Return of ‘Golden Rice’

After the 2000 media blitz on the miracle of ‘Golden Rice’ engineered to produce pro-Vitamin A, the promise turned cold. Seed giant Syngenta has now entered the stage with an ‘improved’ version, but the biosafety and social concerns remain. […]

Model National Biosafety Law

A law to provide for the regulation of the import, deliberate release into the environment, placing on the market, and the contained use of GMOs and products thereof. […]

Model National Biosafety Law

A law to provide for the regulation of the import, deliberate release into the environment, placing on the market, and the contained use of GMOs and products thereof. […]

Model National Biosafety Law

A law to provide for the regulation of the import, deliberate release into the environment, placing on the market, and the contained use of GMOs and products thereof. […]

Model National Biosafety Law

A law to provide for the regulation of the import, deliberate release into the environment, placing on the market, and the contained use of GMOs and products thereof. […]

Model National Biosafety Law

A law to provide for the regulation of the import, deliberate release into the environment, placing on the market, and the contained use of GMOs and products thereof. […]

Model National Biosafety Law

A law to provide for the regulation of the import, deliberate release into the environment, placing on the market, and the contained use of GMOs and products thereof. […]

Genetically Engineered Crops and Pesticide Use in the United States: The First Nine Years

Drawing on nine years of US Dept of Agriculture data, Benbrook demonstrates unequivocally that in the first three years of commercial use, the claim of GM proponents was justified. But since 1999 it has not been. […]

Contained use versus release to the environment

For biosafety purposes, it is customary to distinguish between contained uses of GMOs and their releases to the environment. Mae-Wan Ho tells why. […]

Monsanto’s Roundup-Ready Soy Beans Cracking Up

Researchers in the US have found that Monsanto’s herbicide-resistant soya beans are cracking up in the heat. When grown in hot climates, genetic alterations to the plant seem to cause the stems to split open causing crop losses of up to 40 per cent. […]