Diversa dominates global search for blockbuster microbes

In the past decade, US’ Diversa corporation has expanded its bioprospecting activities all over the globe, placing it very high – if not top – of the list of the world’s bioprospectors. It hopes to make blockbuster biotech products from the estimated 99% […]

Risk Assessment of GMO Products in the EU

This is a first detailed review of a number of applications submitted and approved at the European level, and which are still contested by a number of Member States in the EU. […]

Risk Assessment of GMO Products in the EU

This is a first detailed review of a number of applications submitted and approved at the European level, and which are still contested by a number of Member States in the EU. […]

Risk Assessment of GMO Products in the EU

An Austrian study that provides a detailed review of a number of applications submitted and approved at the European level, and which are still contested by a number of member states in the EU. […]

Territory, autonomy and defending maize

An interview with Aldo Gonzalez, an indigenous person from the Mexican state of Oaxaca, where community organisations are leading a major resistance movement against the contamination of native maize by transgenic seeds. […]

Bt Cotton Vs. Non Pesticidal Management of Cotton

A study undertaken by Centre for Sustainable Agriculture based on interviews with cotton growing farmers in Warangal and Medak districts in India, to compare various aspects of Bt Cotton as a solution for pest problems in cotton crop and Non Pesticidal Ma […]

Bt Cotton Vs. Non Pesticidal Management of Cotton

A study undertaken by the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture based on interviews with cotton growing farmers in Warangal and Medak districts in India, comparing various aspects of Bt Cotton as a solution for pest problems in cotton crop and Non Pesticidal […]

Model Law for Safety in Biotechnology for Africa

First drafted by the OAU and the Ethiopian Environmental Protection Authority, the African Model Law for Biosafety was designed in order that countries in Africa could adopt it in their law as they move towards the implementation of the Biosafety Protoco […]

Genetically Engineered Crop Health Impacts

This review assesses the gap analysis involving the health safety of GM foods. It analyses the gaps in the U.S. GE foods “regulatory” system, the glaring inadequacies of the testing regimes as practiced; and looks into Bt corn as a case study. […]

Genetically engineered vaccines

Professor Terje Traavik of GENOK warns that ‘many live, genetically engineered vaccines are inherently unpredictable (and) possibly dangerous.’ […]