The African Centre for Biosafety was conceived in response to the assessed urgent need to address the actual and potential risks posed by genetic engineering (GE) on the African continent by campaigning for GMOs to be subject to the most stringent biosafety measures.
Managed by the Third World Network, the Biosafety Information Centre aims to provide a flow of information, particularly to policy makers, regulators, scientists, researchers and civil society organisations in developing countries.
International organisation which promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity based on people's control over genetic resources and local knowledge. GRAIN also includes the Growing Diversity website, a unique initiative involving local organisations in the South working on biodiversity management.
LIFE seeks to conserve domestic animal diversity by building on farmers' and pastoralists' indigenous knowledge and institutions, within the context of local and regional development.
Stop Africa being used as dumping ground for GM rice
Selected news
Biodiversity
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Kerala IPRs policy proposes 'knowledge commons'
The Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) Policy for Kerala, released a policy that all traditional knowledge, including traditional medicine, must belong to the domain of "knowledge commons" and not to public domain.
Source:
Grain
Biodiversity
- Mon Jun 09 2008
UN CBD fails to protect forests from genetically engineered trees
Under heavy pressure from Brazil, Canada, Colombia, New Zealand and Australia, the Convention on Biological Diversity's 9th Conference of the Parties failed to pass a moratorium on the release of genetically engineered trees into the environment.
Source:
Global Justice Ecology Project
