Turning Food into Fuel: GM Drought Tolerant Soybean and its Use in the Production of Biodiesel

Soybean is viewed as a very attractive crop for the production of biodiesel. This briefing looks into attempts to develop GM soybean for that purpose in South Africa. […]

Report Finds GE Rice Unnecessary

Future of Rice – Executive Summary

Rice is the world’s most important staple food – grown in over 100 countries, consumed regularly by over two billion people and the primary source of protein for millions. But the production of rice i […]

The WTO GMO Dispute: Implications for developing countries and the need for an appeal

This note explains what the WTO Dispute Panel on the EC biotechnology case decided, what might be appealed, and what might be important to developing countries wanting to regulate GM imports and other products. […]

Future of Rice

The report shows that GE rice and the risks that it brings are simply unnecessary as there are existing rice production methods that are sustainable. […]

Objections to Field Trials of GM Wine

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SOUTH AFRICA’S WINE INDUSTRY THREATENED BY GM GRAPEVINE TRIALS

Issued by the African Centre for Biosafety and Earthlife Africa [1]

Johannesburg 15 October 2006. The African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) and Eart […]

Request for Approval of Illegal GM Rice Raises Pertinent Issues

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Biotech Rice Saga Yields Bushel of Questions for Feds
USDA Approval Shortcut Emerges As Issue
Rick Weiss
Washington Post,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2006/11/05/AR2006110501092_2.html< [...]

Amendment to the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters

The amendment to the Aarhus Convention concerning public participation in decision-making on genetically modified organisms was adopted at the second meeting of the Parties to the Convention in September 2005. […]

Genetic Engineering and Omitted Health Research

r Genetic Engineering and Omitted Health Research: Still No Answers to Ageing Questions Terje Traavik and Jack Heinemann Introduction Some of the most crucial scientific questions concerning the health effects of genetic en […]

Genetic Engineering and Omitted Health Research

This paper identifies some of the putative health hazards related to genetically engineered plants used as food or feed. It also identifies numerous areas of omitted research, which need urgent investigation. […]

Mexico Refuses to Allow Field Trials of GM Maize

MEXICO SHUTS THE DOOR ON GM MAIZE
Inter Press Service News Agency, 28.10.2006
(http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35280)

MEXICO CITY, Oct 28 (Tierramérica) – Ending the reason for protests by environmental activists, and muc […]