Biosafety Protocol Steps Forward

 

Biosafety Protocol steps forward
 
Nagoya, 16 October (Lim Li Lin and Doreen Stabinsky) – The bi-annual meeting of Parties to the UN Cartagena Proto […]

Summary Findings of IAASTD on GMOs

A synthesis of the findings from the IAASTD as they relate to GMOs. […]

Summary Findings of IAASTD on GMOs

 

Biotechnology and Sustainable Development
 
Findings from the UN-led International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Sc […]

Making Agricultural Research Work for Small Farmers and Agroecological Approaches in West Africa

This paper highlights some of the outcomes of recent farmer deliberations on the governance and priorities of food & agricultural research in West Africa. […]

Genetic Engineered Fish

There is an attempt to commercialise GE salmon. This briefing looks at the issues pertaining to GE fish and their release. […]

Developed Countries Reject Mandatory Disclosure Requirements

Developed Countries Reject Mandatory Disclosure Requirements

Developed countries continue to reject a list of mandatory checkpoints to detect potential biopiracy by users of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge within their jurisdiction. […]

Last Attempt to Conclude Access and Benefit-Sharing Treaty

Parties to the CBD started meeting in Japan on 13 Oct and hope to finalise and adopt the Access and Benefit Sharing Protocol by end of the conference. […]

Last Attempt to Conclude Access and Benefit-Sharing Treaty

New Treaty on Liability for GMO Damage is Born

This TWN paper is a report of the 4th meeting of the Group of the Friends of the Co-Chairs on Liability and Redress in the Context of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, where a Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress was completed. […]