TWN Comments on Draft Civil Liability Guidelines

TWN’s comments on the draft civil liability guidelines prepared by the ‘Group of Friends of the Co-Chairs on liability and redress in the context of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety’ (GFCC). […]

Impact of Glyphosate Resistant Palmer Pigweed on US Agriculture

The rapid spread of glyphosate resistant Palmer pigweed constitutes a major agronomic failure of genetically engineered Roundup Ready seeds. This TWN paper examines the phenomenon and its impacts on US agriculture. […]

Impact of Glyphosate Resistant Palmer Pigweed on US Agriculture

Scientists Build Synthetic Organism Amid Calls for Global Moratorium

As lab-made life was announced, the ETC Group calls for Global Moratorium on Synthetic Biology due to ethical concerns and the implications of the largely unknown field. […]

Scientists Build Synthetic Organism Amid Calls for Global Moratorium

Rise of the ‘Superweeds’?

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/business/energy-environment/04weed.html?hp=&pagewanted=all

Organic Agriculture and Climate Change

This paper makes the case for good agricultural management via organic agriculture practices that can compensate for most of the agriculture sector’s greenhouse gas emissions. […]

Research Shows Organic Yields Can Equal or Exceed Conventional

A 12-year experiment in the United States has shown that organic yields are improving and sometimes exceeding conventional yields. […]

Bioscience for Life? Who Decides What Research is Done in Health and Agriculture?

Research funding decisions are about how to best spend public money, which institutions to support and what incentives to provide to researchers. This report investigates the shaping of science, innovation and the economy in the UK and Europe. […]

Monsanto’s Drought Tolerant Maize

Monsanto has recently applied to extend field trials of its drought tolerant maize in South Africa. This paper from the African Centre for Biosafety raises biosafety concerns. […]