TWN Report on MOP1

The Socio-economic Aspects of GMOs and the Need for Applying Precautionary Principles

This paper examines the the socio-economic aspects of GMOs and calls for the application of the precautionary principle to protect communities from the adverse effects of GMOs. […]

Fatal Flaws in Food Safety Assessment: Critique of The Joint FAO/WHO Biotechnology and Food Safety Report

The Joint FAO/WHO Biotechnology and Food Safety Report shows up the glaring inadequacies in safety regulation of GE foods, designed to expedite product approval with little or no regard for biosafety. […]

Socio-Economic Considerations in Biosafety

An analysis of the impact of GMOs on traditional farming systems, the rights of indigenous peoples and the international laws that support socio-economic considerations in biosafety. […]

MRC Acknowledges GM Food Risks : Human Studies Proposed

A report by the UK Medical Research Council, published in June 2000, goes beyond what many other groups have done in acknowledging that GM foods do pose special risks. […]

Disagreement on GM Maize Import into EU

Item 1 EU fails to agree on Monsanto request to import GM maize Agence France Press, 18 February, 2004 Brussels European Union scientists on Wednesday failed to agree on whether to allow imports of a genetically modified (GM) str […]

Argentina’s GM Woes

Proponents claim that GM crops are necessary for fighting hunger in developing countries and decreasing the use of pesticides. The evidence shows otherwise. […]

Use and Abuse of the Precautionary Principle

Dr Peter Saunders, Prof of Mathematics at King’s College, London provides a clear and common sense approach to understanding the precautionary principle. This understanding is crucial in the light of the Biosafety Protocol. […]

The Cartagena Protocol – a battle over trade or biosafety?

The negotiations at Cartagena were doomed to failure, argues Lavanya Rajamani, given the backdrop in which they were conducted. The real battle was over trade, not biosafety. […]

The ‘Golden Rice’: An Exercise in How Not to Do Science

This paper is a scientific critique of ‘Golden Rice’ – genetically engineered Vitamin A rice – by Dr Mae Wan Ho of the Institute of Science in Society, UK. It examines the flawed scientific/social rationale of the ‘Golden Rice’. […]