GM and Drought Tolerance

This briefing looks at claims that the drought-tolerant crops will soon to be released and that they produce higher yield while countering climate change. […]

FTAs, GMOs and Food Safety

Food Safety – rigging the game

GRAIN, July 3 2008

Small farms as a planetary ecological asset

This paper, by Miguel Altieri, President of the Latin American Scientific Society of Agroecology (SOCLA) and Professor of Agroecology at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that small farms are ecological assets. […]

Fact sheets on GMOs

Fact sheets on the EU authorisation process, GMOs, the environmental, health and socio-economic impacts of GMOs […]

Sustainable agriculture and focus on small farmers needed to realise the right to food

On 22 May 2008, a Special UN Session was held to discuss the global food crisis. It adopted a resolution that expressed grave concern at the worsening world food crisis, which seriously undermines the realization of the right to food for all. […]

Revisiting Risks of Viral Transgenes in Plants

Rethinking the Risks of Viral Transgenes in Plants http://www.bioscienceresource.org/commentaries/brc7.php

Background to the new Bioscience Resource project […]

Non-GM Crops Dominate in World Agriculture

This briefing sets out in detail the amount of land growing GM crops around the world following recent exaggerated claims regarding the extent of GM cultivation. […]

GE Trees: Why Biocontainment Won’t Work

Scientific evidence suggests that biocontainment will not work to prevent the genes from GE trees from escaping. […]

GE Mosquitoes to Fight Dengue Raise Concerns

(http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Terminator_Mosquitoes_to_Control_Dengue.php)
ISIS
Press Release 14/05/08

Terminator Mosquitoes to Co […]

Another Year of Doom – Bt Cotton in AP – 2008

Bt cotton farmers in Andhra Pradesh, India suffered another year of less profits compared to non-Bt cotton farmers. […]