Farm System Needs Overhaul

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http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/4/21/focus/21013406&sec=focus

FARM SYSTEM NEEDS TO BE OVERHAULED

Martin Khor
The Star
21 April 2008

A new and authoritative report has call […]

Radical Change Needed, GM Crops Not the Solution

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Change in farming can feed world – Report
John Vidal
The Guardian
16 April 2008

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/16/food.biofuels

– Ample resources wasted, global study warns
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Overhaul of agriculture systems needed

Agriculture: Overhaul of agriculture systems needed, says new report

Kuala Lumpur, 15 Apr (Lim Li Ching) — An independent and multi-stakeholder international assessment of agriculture has concluded that a radical change is needed in agri […]

Long-term Persistence of GM Oilseed Rape Seed

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Long-term persistence of GM oilseed rape in the seedbank
Online Date Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Authors

Tina D’Hertefeldt (1), Rikke B. Jørgensen (2), Lars B. Pettersson (1)
(1) Departme […]

No Agreement Yet on Liability Regarding GMOs

Negotiations under the UN Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to establish an international regime for liability and redress for damage caused by genetically modified organisms (GMOs) failed to conclude as mandated. […]

Benefits of Organic Farming

The following article, published in The Ecologist, makes the case that organic farming is productive enough, particularly in developing countries, to feed the world. […]

Reduced Fitness of Daphnia magna Fed on GM Maize

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Reduced Fitness of Daphnia magna Fed a Bt-Transgenic Maize Variety

By Thomas Bøhn (1) , Raul Primicerio (2), Dag O. Hessen (3) and Terje Traavik(1,4)

(1) Genøk? […]

The GM Food Gamble

http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/editorsblog/index.php?/archives/

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Heads Monsanto Wins, Tails We Lose;
The Genetically Modified F […]

Global Seed Vault cannot replace on-farm conservation

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, focusing on ex situ collections in gene banks should not be viewed as the solution to seed conservation. […]

Non-transgenic Cotton Cultivars More Profitable

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Published online 11 January 2008
Published in Agron J 10012-51 (2008)
DOI: 10.2134/agrojnl2006.0259
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