Articles in this section

• GMO & co.

  Women Farmers and Food Justice

  1 February, by SACHS Carolyn

  Preserving biodiversity through farmer control of seeds
  Lead-up study to the 62^nd session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62)
  While women make up close to half of the world’s farmers, their access to agricultural resources and land is often severely limited. As a result, women (...)

• GMO & co.

  Declaration in Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of African Liberation Day

  25 May 2013, by GRILA

  AFRICOM Go Home
  AFRICOM Out of Germany - NOW! AFRICOM Out of Africa - NOW!
  Declaration in Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of African Liberation Day
  …. "We, the Heads of African States and Governments assembled in the City of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Convinced that it is the inalienable (...)

• GMO & co.

  GMOs: Fooling – er, “feeding” – the world for 20 years

  15 May 2013, by GRAIN

  Myths and outright lies about the alleged benefits of genetically engineered crops (GE crops or GMOs) persist only because the multinationals that profit from them have put so much effort into spreading them around.
  They want you to believe that GMOs will feed the world; that they are more (...)

• GMO & co.

  La Via Campesina Call to Action – Help Stop Terminator’s Return!

  28 July 2010, by La Via Campesina

  (July 2010) 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 (...)

• GMO & co.

  Inauguration of “Transgenic contamination of maize: crime against humanity?”

  2 March 2010, by Via Campesina (North America)

  La Via Campesina North America Region Red en Defensa del Maíz (Network in Defense of Maize, Mexico) Asamblea Nacional de Afectados Ambientales (Assembly of People Displaced by Environmental Impacts, Mexico)
  Guadalajara, March 2, 2010. Faced with the international “technical” conference of the (...)

• GMO & co.

  Peasants Worldwide Rise up Against Monsanto, GMOs

  16 October 2009, by La Via Campesina

  (Mexico, 16 October 2009) Today, International World Food Day, as declared by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, La Via Campesina is mobilizing globally along with allies in an overwhelming expression of outright rejection of Monsanto and Genetically Modified (...)

• GMO & co.

  GM-free: the way of the future

  22 February 2008, by PHELPS Bob

  Foods from genetically manipulated (GM) crops and animals are rejected by most farmers, shoppers and food processors around the world. If these mutant foods were fully labelled, as they should be, consumer rejection would ensure that GM food crops were not grown.
  The environmental, social, (...)

• GMO & co.

  Australia: Brumby GM canola decision sparks Labor opposition

  7 November 2007, by GROGAN Janet

  The November 27 decision by the Victorian Premier John Brumby’s Labor government to lift a moratorium on commercially-grown genetically-modified canola has drawn sharp criticism from scientific researchers and environmental activists. Labor MPs declared that the decision had been made secretly, (...)