Organic Practitioners Celebrate Outstanding Agriculture Techniques

Organic farmers at a South Asian conference demonstrate how organic farming could be a viable alternative to current Green Revolution techniques. […]

Hidden Costs of Resistance

Modified Crops Reveal Hidden Cost Of Resistance
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On Going Concerns About Harmonisation of Biosafety Regulations in Africa

This briefing warns of the dangers lurking in the AU’s Biosafety Stategy with regard to proposed biosafety harmonisation processes that involve several players that raises concern. […]

Transgenic Seed Platforms: Competition Between a Rock and a Hard Place?

This paper analyzes the state of competition in the transgenic seed industry which is heavily dominated by biotechnology giant Monsanto. […]

Risk Reloaded

A report on the risk assessment procedure for genetically engineered plants in the EU. […]

Corporate seed and the right to food

The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food warns that large biotechnology firms are not only depriving poor farmers of inputs essential for their livelihoods, but are also pushing up food prices. […]

Biosafety First

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New types of plant and animal patents pose threats

[South-North Development Monitor (SUNS), Issue #6800, 26 October 2009]

Development: New types of plant and animal patents pose threats

New types of plant and animal patents pose threats

The ‘No Patents on Seeds’ coalition and supporting farmers’ organizations issued an alert on 21 October over a new class of patents covering plants and animals and endangering innovation and food security. […]

Stop ‘Monsantosizing’ food, seeds and animals

 

Global alert against ‘Monsantosizing’ our food
UN General Assembly to discuss patents on seeds and right to food

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