Award presented to GM wheat genetic engineer Raquel Chan in Paris has reignited doubts about the crop and the technology.
In the Philippines, the farmer-scientist network MASIPAG has “strongly and unequivocally” condemned the government’s approval ...
EU lawmakers must “put public health first and reject any attempt to weaken Europe’s protections from pesticides” ...
EXCERPT: AATF [African Agricultural Technology Foundation], "a partnership between USAID, the Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanto, Dupont/Pioneer, Dow Agrosciences, Syngenta, and Aventis" and funded by ...
While genetically modified rice is not currently commercially available, GMO contamination in non-GMO rice is all too common — accounting for a third of all such events globally. Now, several ...
Bayer has applied for approval in the EU of its new herbicide, icafolin, following applications in Brazil, the US, and Canada. The company states that glyphosate resistant weeds – which have thrived ...
Ag and food writer says GMO deregulation lobby live “in a fantasy land of precision, predictability and imagined safety”; points instead to agroecological controls. Report: Claire Robinson In a letter ...
Covert PR operations involving the secret profiling of over 3,000 people and organisations considered “critics” of the pesticide industry recently made headlines around the world. The secret profiles, ...
Bayer going after Pfizer for patent infringement is a forerunner for widespread abuse of intellectual property claims in food and farming if the planned GMO deregulation goes ahead. Report: Claire ...
No proof of health benefit claims, no evidence of food safety. Report: Claire Robinson Recently NPR ran a story reporting that the GM purple tomato, genetically engineered with genes from snapdragons ...
Leukemia findings are especially striking – potentially lending support to plaintiffs in court cases who allege that Roundup exposure caused their blood cancer A comprehensive carcinogenicity study on ...
In a victory for public health and the environment, the British biotech firm Oxitec and CSIRO have withdrawn their application to commercially release millions of genetically engineered mosquitoes ...