A food rights expert reaffirm the to not only increase food production, but to re-orient agro-food systems and the regulations towards sustainability and the progressive realization of the right to food. […]
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Item 1 Germany to ban US biotech giant’s genetically modified corn strain
German BÖLW presents loss report: GM agriculture incurs more costs than benefits Press Release,
Alternativa Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América (ALBA) A European Conference calls for an EU-wide moratorium on the authorization and the commercial planting of GMOs. […] The recent food crisis exposed the problems confronting agriculture and the neglect that the sector has suffered in development priorities. It is ever more urgent now to rethink agriculture beyond business-as-usual. […] Bt proteins are expressed by several transgenic crop plants to control certain pests, but nontarget organisms such as ladybirds also can be exposed. Implications of results of study for ladybird populations are discussed. […] Cultivation of GM Bt maize will harm European wildlife and jeopardise conventional and organic farming. Despite this, there is a threat that Bt maize could be grown in Europe on a large scale as companies are submitting new GM Bt maize varieties to the EU […] In 2002, the Monsanto company submits to the German authorities an application to import genetically engineered MON863 maize into the EU. This report chronicles the developments following this submission. […] GM sugar cane is fast taking over soya production in the southern cone of Latin America. This report looks at the intersection between the development of GM sugar cane and transformations in the global sugar industry. […] |
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