Internet Used to Spread Biopharm Crops

Item 1 EDMONDS INSTITUTE ALERT Contact: Beth Burrows, 425-775-5383 ____________________________________________________________ Brokering Iffy Biotech to Out-of-the-Way Farmers Opportunities on the Web: Shifting th […]

British Doctors Urge Halt to GE Trials

Contamination Spreads

Item 1 Local cotton affected by genetically modified crop The Jakarta Post 21 November 2002, Jakarta www.thejakartapost.com A study by a post-graduate student from the Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB) has shown that geneti […]

UN Food Rapporteur: GM Foods Danger to Health

Item 1 12.11.02 STATEMENT ON ISSUE OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD BY SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE RIGHT TO FOOD Following the press release published on 11 November 2002 by Ambassador Sichan Siv, Representative of the United States to th […]

How GM Soya is Damaging to Argentina

Why Argentina can’t feed itself – how GM soya is destroying livelihoods and the environment in Argentina By Sue Branford, The Ecologist, Vol. 32 No. 8, October 2002 ‘Our brief history of submission to the world bio-technology gian […]

WFP, Food Aid and GMOs

Part 1 GM Food Aid Row Continues By Lim Li Ching, Third World Network and Institute of Science in Society, UK At the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), the most contentious issue that was not on the official a […]

South Asia-Canada Dialogue on Agriculture

Gene Therapy Halted After Discovery of Cancer

Predicted Hazard of Gene Therapy A Reality The French team that made news in 2000 treating children with severe combined immune deficiency (SCID) had to call a halt to the gene therapy trial. One of the ten children treated has develop […]

GMOs, 25 Years On

Bt Cotton in India Faces Serious Problems

Part 1 Bt cotton – bitter harvest By Mihir Shah & Debashis Banerji, The Hindu, India (24 August 2002) (http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2002/08/24/stories/2002082400081000.htm) FIRST REPORTS from Khargone di […]