Biodiversity
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UN: No agreement on liability regarding GMOs, another meeting planned
Negotiations under the UN Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to establish an international regime for liability and redress for damage caused by genetically modified organisms (GMOs) failed to conclude as mandated. The fifth meeting of the Working Group on the liability regime was held in Cartagena on 12-19 March, in the city in Colombia that gave its name to the Biosafety Protocol.
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Biodiversity
- Thu Mar 27 2008
Biodiversity and land reforms: a neglected linkage
Agricultural biodiversity was a key item on the agenda of the just concluded meeting in Rome of the scientific and technical advisory body (SBSTTA) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and yet this meeting too sidestepped the critical issue of reforming the agricultural land tenure as a means to enhance agrobiodiversity
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Biodiversity
- Tue Mar 25 2008
The genetically modified food gamble
The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) this year once again highlighted that land grown with genetically modified (GM) crops have increased and claimed that these crops are the answer to reducing world hunger and poverty.
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Biodiversity
- Fri Mar 14 2008
A new attempt to privatize biodiversity? a look into COP-9
The Ninth Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 9) will take place in Bonn, Germany, in May. During the conference, there will be meetings focused on GM trees and agrofuels and civil society organizations are warning of strategies to 'privatize biodiversity'.
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Biodiversity
- Tue Feb 26 2008
Faults in the vault: not everyone is celebrating Svalbard
Nestled inside a mountain, the "Global Seed Vault" is basically a giant icebox able to hold 4.5 million seed samples in cold storage for humanity's future needs located on an island in Svalbard, Norway. However, this "ultimate safety net" for the biodiversity that world farming depends on is sadly just the latest move in a wider strategy to make ex situ (off site) storage in seed banks the only approach to crop diversity conservation.
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Social Development
/Natural Resources
/Biodiversity
- Wed Nov 07 2007
Farmers call for suspension of Seed Treaty
Farmers' organizations who were invited to attend a United Nations meeting on the Treaty that governs the exchange of crop seeds for research and plant breeding told the assembled governments that the Treaty would have to be suspended.
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Human Rights
/Biodiversity
- Wed Oct 24 2007
Attack of Syngenta’s armed militia results in deaths and woundeds
One dead and many injured resulted from an attack of an armed militia to the peasant’s camp at the experimental field trial of Syngenta, at Santa Teresa do Oeste (Brazil).
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Biodiversity
- Wed Oct 10 2007
Fifth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing
By resolution of the Conference of the Parties, the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing of the Convention on Biological Diversity is elaborating a possible international regime on access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing to be ready by 2010.
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Biodiversity
- Tue Sep 18 2007
GE trees threaten ecosystem collapse
GE trees are gaining popularity in many countries for purposes such as to address deforestation or for biofuel. But some scientists and environmentalist have serious ecological and safety concerns.
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Biodiversity
- Fri Sep 07 2007
Philippine court stops GMO rice import
The temporary restraining order (TRO) on the application of the genetically-modified rice Bayer LL62 was issued this afternoon.
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