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"Transgenic Wars," an award-winning film by French investigative journalist Paul Moreira, takes us on a journey through Europe and Latin America, looking at the effects of genetically engineered (GE) crops, both on livestock and human...
Bid for exclusion by 14 countries and three regions would make two-thirds of Europe’s population and arable land GM-free
Wheat modified to send out insect pheromones does not repel aphids.
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Germany’s Bavaria region has become the 62nd GMO Free farming area in Europe. The Munich-based Bavarian Environment Minister Dr.
Following court ruling, anti-GMO activists ask for map of transgenic farms
Tico Times
Since genetically modified crops first came to Costa Rica in 1991, the locations of the farms have been kept under wraps.
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Mother Earth News
Why GM Crops Will Not Feed the World
Mother Earth News
GM crops are heavily concentrated in a handful of countries with industrialized, export-oriented agricultural sectors.
Activists criticise pioneering pilot scheme to grow genetically-modified aubergines backed by USAid finance
An Australian farmer has lost a court case against the GM growing neighbour who lost him his organic status. With your help, Karl Mathiesen investigates whether genetically modified crops will make purely organic crops impossible.
They fear GM mosquitoes could spread beyond release sites and also produce unplanned hybrid offspring, says study.
Following this ruling it will be easier for states in the EU to determine individually if they want to allow GM crop sewing or to ban it from their overall food production paradigm. The citizens of Italy already heavily oppose GMO ...
UK environment secretary Owen Paterson’s has failed to represent Scotland after admitting breaching an agreement to make Scotland’s opposition to genetically modified (GM) crops clear to Europea...
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There's new and detailed data on the impact of genetically modified crops on pesticide use. Those crops replaced insecticides, and, at first, some herbicides. But herbicide use has rebounded.
Governments maintaining their antipathy for transgenic crops are sensibly balancing public consent with scientific evidence, says Colin Macilwain.
It is strange to see an apparently ordinary field surrounded by a seven-foot steel fence topped with barbed wire. The banana trees being grown inside don’t look any different from those that are ubiquitous in the surrounding African countryside. The only thing that marks them apart is the fence, two security guards in smart green-and-black uniforms, and little white markers at the foot of each plant, each with a unique but unintelligible code.
A new study finds the goal of reducing chemical use for genetically modified crops has not panned out as planned.
Yahoo News GMO safety, weed control top concerns as US study kicks off Yahoo News (Reuters) - Agriculture experts raised a number of concerns with genetically modified crops, including safety and spreading weed resistance, at the first public...
Center for Food Safety has condemned the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) decision to fully deregulate Dow Chemical’s Enlist corn and soybeans, genetically engineered to withstand repeated spraying of the herbicide 2,4-D.
Asian Scientist Magazine
India Caught Between Business And Activists Over GM Crops
Asian Scientist Magazine
While India has been cultivating Monsanto's 'Bt cotton' since 2002, farmers and environmental activists have fiercely resisted GM food crops.
A vitamin-enhanced ‘super-banana’ developed by scientists is to be tested on humans. The trials are to take place in the US over a six-week period. Researchers aim to start growing the fruit in Uganda by 2020.
By Emily Chung, June 4, 2014. Source: CBC News The main cause of the monarch butterfly's decline is the loss of milkweed — its food — in its U.S. breeding grounds, a new study has found. That all ...
Unbelievable! #Monsanto et al to decide whether EU countries can ban #GMO crops. Please RT. http://t.co/j43hZoF8mi #stopthecrop ^FG
Genetically modified crops are often held up as a potential solution to world food shortages and the way to end famine.
Paterson recently told the Oxford Farming Conference that Europe is likely to become “the museum of world farming” because of its failure to embrace genetically modified crops. He went on to state that the longer Europe ...
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