The negotiations at Cartagena in 1999 were doomed to failure, argues Lavanya Rajamani, given the backdrop in which they were conducted. The real battle was over trade, not biosafety. […]
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At Cartagena in 1999 during the negotiation on the Biosafety protocol, the South put forward the basic constituents of a strong Biosafety Protocol. Gurdial Singh Nijar, sets out and discusses these key elements. […] When highly respected British scientist Dr Arpad Pusztai took on a publicly-funded research project to study the effects of GM crops on animal nutrition and the environment, little did he know his findings would place him in the midst of a controversy. […] GM crops have been an “economic disaster” in the USA and Canada, according to a new report published by the Soil Association. […] The UK’s farm scale evaluations have shown conclusively that the herbicide regime linked with GM spring oilseed rape and beet is damaging to biodiversity. Lim Li Ching reports. […] |
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