GENETICALLY MODIFIED TREES – Sign-on letter to Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) urging a ban on genetically modified trees At its last Conference of the Parties (COP8), the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted a very imp […]
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The disclosure last month that American long-grain rice has become widely contaminated with traces of an experimental, gene-altered rice has provoked an economic crisis for farmers and reignited a long-smoldering debate over the adequacy of U.S. oversight […] r Item 1 Brussel, September 5 2006 – Greenpeace International released findings today that show illegal genetically engineered (GE) rice from China has contaminated food products in France, Germany and the UK. Greenpeace Internatio […] r Item 1 Press Release – Center for Food Safety USDA to Rubber-Stamp Contamination of Food with Illegal, Genetically Engineered Rice Banned in Japan and Europe U.S. Dismantles Reg […] r Item 1 Bayer faces more lawsuits over GMO rice r Item 1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/18/AR200608180104?3_2.html? r Item 1 Chinese Farmers of Genetically Modified Cotton Are Losing Money Description: Bt […] This chapter is part of the Africa Environment Outlook 2 published by UNEP. It concludes that Africa needs to consider the potential benefits of GM technology against the threats posed to biodiversity, livelihoods and cultural systems. […] This report found that the profits Chinese Bt cotton growers enjoyed by saving on pesticides have now been eroded with the unexpected emergence of secondary pests which resulted in the increased use of pesticides to control them. […] |
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