Discussions on the destruction of the smallpox virus stock at the WHO’s Executive Board meeting (20-25 January 2014) reveal significant disagreement among Member States. […]
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Smallpox: WHO Executive Board passes the buck to the World Health Assembly Austin, Texas, 28 Jan (Edward Hammond) &nda […] The UN Secretary-General’s recent report on agricultural technology for development makes an unequivocal case for sustainable and resilient agricultural and food systems in order achieve the goal of ending hunger and poverty. […] Review: The New Genetics and Natural versus Artificial Genetic Modification
This paper reviews empirical evidence on how artificial genetic modification disrupts the natural genetic process of organisms and threatens their health and longevity. […] The Union of Concerned Scientists declares that the spread of herbicide-resistant superweeds in the U.S. has reached epidemic proportions and that the real solution lies in the science of agroecology rather than in a new generation of GE herbicide-resista […] This paper calls for serious scaling up of agroecology and provides indicators and policy recommendations to support decision-makers in moving forward on this. […] Researchers warn that agricultural weed management through herbicide-resistant crops is an unsustainable pathway that will worsen the massive problem of herbicide-resistant weeds in the country. […] |
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