La Via Campesina Call to Action – Help Stop Terminator’s Return!
Four years after the moratorium on Terminator technology was reaffirmed by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), proposals to develop and commercialize ‘genetic-use restriction technologies’ (GURTs) are back on the agenda for policymakers and the biotechnology industry.
GM in the public eye in Asia
Thu May 27 2010 - Source:
Grain
Public agricultural research on genetically modified crops in Asia is becoming less about the needs of ordinary people and small farmers and more about scientific control and corporate interests. For Asia’s small farmers is there really any difference between a national GM crop and a transnational one?
GM contamination a crime against humanity
The authorization of GM corn crops in Mexico and the attempt by the FAO to legitimize this practice are strongly questioned by tens of organizations meeting in Guadalajara, Mexico, in the parallel activities to the FAO Conference.
