The Global Science, Technology and Innovation Conference (G-STIC) 2017 was held recently in Brussels. The thematic session on ‘Agroecology for Sustainable Food Systems’ called for a paradigm shift in agriculture towards agroecology. […]
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Sequence information is a topic that governments cannot afford to ignore at the 7th meeting of the Governing Body (GB) of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) in November 2017 in Kigali, Rwanda. […] The European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility asserts that all products of new GM techniques are GMOs and should be regulated strictly, and new, technique-specific regulations may be necessary. […] The Sustainability Council of New Zealand highlights important elements in the country’s biosafety law for good governance of GMOs, gene editing and synthetic biology,stressing the importance of strengthening national and international biosafety regimes. […] This report provides an overview of the GM cotton push in in East and Southern Africa, within the context of the global and regional cotton markets. […] Dominant agri-food firms have become too big to feed humanity sustainably, too big to operate on equitable terms with other food system actors, and too big to drive the types of innovation we need. […] Industrial food and farming systems are making people sick in a variety of ways, and are generating staggering human and environmental costs. […] A framework of care-based ethics and politics can be directly used to guide the assessment of socio-economic and ethical considerations within formal biotechnology regulatory systems. […] A UN report on Nutrition and Food Systems analyzes how food systems influence people’s dietary patterns and nutritional outcomes, as well as provides clear policy recommendations to shape food systems to protect the right to adequate food for all. […] Frequently Asked Questions on Water Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA), published by the African Centre for Biodiversity and Third World Network. […] |
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