Two reports illustrate the overwhelming extent of corporate control over food and agriculture and provide evidence to show the inability of this dominant industrial model to feed a world in (climate) crisis. […]
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October 28th, 2013 | Category: Trends in Industry The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food explores how agroecology can result in modes of production that are more resilient, highly productive and sustainable, contributing to poverty alleviation and the realization of the right to food. […] This TWN Biosafety Briefing evaluates the impact of genetic engineering in the US on three important challenges to agriculture: increasing food productivity, increasing nitrogen use efficiency, and increasing drought tolerance. […] A Philippines study on the socio-economic impacts of GM corn cultivation has found evidence of increased farmer debt and impoverishment, highlighting the urgent need for socio-economic considerations to play an integral role in proper biosafety assessment […] Item 1
October 23rd, 2013 | Category: Assessment & Impacts This TWN Biosafety Briefing discusses the rapid development in South Africa, of field-resistance of the African maize stem borer to Bt maize, and the lessons that should be learnt. […] Food and nutrition security must be developed in a sustainable way, and the status quo as exemplified by conventional forms of agriculture is no longer viable. […] |
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