Activists submitted this report to the Competition Commission to request for an investigation into Monsanto’s extraordinary market power in South Africa. […]
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Under the pretext of addressing environmental degradation, climate change and the energy and food crises, industry is portending a “New Bioeconomy” and the replacement of fossil carbon with living matter, now labeled “biomass.” […] Chemical companies are racing to develop new GM crops or to use old herbicides to attack weeds that are increasingly immune to herbicides. […] Biotechnology lags behind traditional breeding and other methods in producing crops that have shown improved efficiency in nitrogen use, in order to address the problem of nitrogen fertiliser pollution. […] This report exposes the patents and players involved in appropriating key African food crops to produce GM climate crops. […] A decade ago there was much hope and hype about the potentials of GM crops. The reality, thus far, is a more complex and mixed story. […] A wave of new GMOs are expected to flood the South African market during 2009. Biotech backers, such as the Bill Gates Foundation, are also bringing new GM crops onto the South African scene. […] GM sugar cane is fast taking over soya production in the southern cone of Latin America. This report looks at the intersection between the development of GM sugar cane and transformations in the global sugar industry. […] A European biotech lobby is said to have inflated the figures on GM crop cultivation. […] How GM technology which has marginal relevance to developing countries justified itself as the solution to the development of poor countries. […] |
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