A critical review by the African Centre for Biosafety on the GM potatoes experiment in South Africa. […]
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Sustainable agricultural practices, which include organic farming, that offer many benefits to the environment, biodiversity, local livelihoods, and human health, are viable alternatives to genetic engineering. […] Item 1 Biotech industry impunity fuels global GE contamination spread Most of the contamination involved such staple crops as rice and maize, but also included soy, cotton, canola, papaya and fish This is the third annual report from the online GM Contamination Register, which reviews reported cases of contamination and illegal plantings and releases of GM (genetically modified) organisms. […] The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are coordinating efforts following notification by Dow AgroSciences that the company detected extremely low levels of an unregistered genetically engineered (GE) pesticide product known as a plant-incorporated protectant (PIP) in 3 of its commercial GE hybrid corn seed lines. […] r Until now the debate over genetically modified organisms – also known as transgenic organisms – has mainly focused on agricultural crops, and only to a much lesser extent on genetically modified trees. This i […] The issue of agricultural biodiversity was discussed at the 13th meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) technical body held in Rome in Feb 2008. […] r Item 1 Press Release IP/08/219 Brussels, 12 February 2008 Commission requires certification for Chinese rice products to stop unauthorised […] A new report written for Greenpeace by Professor Pete Smith from the University of Aberdeen, a lead author on the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, examines the direct and indirect impacts of agriculture on climate change. […] This report shows that growing of GM crops has increased the use of harmful pesticides in major biotech crop producing countries. […] |
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