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Worldwatch report attacks criminalising of seed saving and promotes agroecology
Tom Levitt
13th January, 2011
Green revolution approach of expensive fertilisers and seeds is failing and needs replacing with projects that prevent food waste, build resilience to climate change, and strengthen city farming more...
Germany and France likely to block plans to end GM crop delays
Tom Levitt
7th December, 2011
Renewed efforts to end the political deadlock over approving GM crops in Europe likely to fail as member states fear legal backlash and trade disputes more...
US calls for an end to the EU block on GM and nanotechnology
Tom Levitt and Vi Nguyen
7th December, 2010
US officials say they remain ‘surprised and disappointed’ over Europe’s refusal to embrace technologies like genetic modification (GM) and nanotechnology in farming more...
Dupont follows Monsanto in new move to consolidate South African seed market
Kara Moses
1st December, 2010
Proposed merger between Dupont-owned Pioneer Hi-Bred and Pannar Seeds could spell disaster for local farmers and food security, watchdog claimsmore...
Revealed: the glyphosate research the GM soy lobby doesn't want you to read
Claire Robinson
24th November, 2010
Andres Carrasco's research linking a controversial herbicide with birth defects highlighted the potential health dangers posed by GM crop-spraying in Argentina – and led to violence and intimidation for those behind the study more...
Mark Lynas: I'm not the pariah of the green movement
Tom Levitt
15th November, 2010
Author at the centre of recent documentary claims more than half of the environmental movement agrees with him that we should embrace genetically modified (GM) crops and nuclear power more...
Mark Lynas: 'More than half of greens agree with me on GM & nuclear'
Matilda Lee
15th November, 2010
Mark Lynas, featured in Channel 4's recent and highly controversial documentary, 'What the green movement got wrong', tells Matilda Lee why he is not the pariah of the eco movement more...
Alternative Nobel Prize winner Raul Montenegro: ‘Nuclear energy is a nonsense technology’
Kara Moses
5th November, 2010
Argentinean academic and activist Raul Montenegro on why indigenous people hold the keys to survival, why GM technologies only profit big business and how nuclear power ignores the rights of future generations more...
What the environmental movement got right: activists respond to Channel 4 film
Tom Levitt
4th November, 2010
Green campaigners reject accusations of failure and point out success of domestic climate legislation, regulations to tackle ozone pollution and growing acceptance from the business community of environmental issues more...
EU food safety chief forced to quit GM lobby role
Jemima Roberts and Tom Levitt
26th October, 2010
Questions raised over why European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) chair Diana Banati failed to make clear her connections to International Life Science Institute (ILSI), which advises biotech giants like Monsanto, Bayer and BASF more...
Revealed: how seed market is controlled by Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, Dow & DuPont
Tom Levitt
7th October, 2010
Graphic illustrates how just five biotech giants have increased their control of the global seed market, promoting monoculture farming and making it harder for farmers to find alternative sources of seeds more...
US delays approval for fast-growing GM salmon
The Ecologist
22nd September, 2010
Campaigners say approval for the genetically modified salmon would carry 'great risk' and pave the way for more GM animals to enter the market more...
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Emmanuelle Garcia : Chemical companies want the public to feel helpless and not protest
Tom Levitt
6th September, 2010
Emmanuelle Schick Garcia is the director of 'The Idiot Cycle', a new film exposing the chemical industry and how it benefits from the contamination it is causing more...
Biotech industry plays down discovery of GM crops surviving in the wild
Ecologist
10th August, 2010
GM seed manufacturers claim that genetically-modified crops are not likely to survive in wild, but US researchers have found GM plants surviving for at least two generations more...
EU's 'dangerous' move to nationalise GM decision-making
Ecologist
14th July, 2010
Individual countries will be allowed to ban GM crops in a move the EU hopes will stop them blocking new crops being grown by farmers in other member states more...
EU votes against compulsory GM food labelling
Ecologist
7th July, 2010
Campaigners angry at EU's decision to keep consumers 'in the dark' over food from animals given genetically modified (GM) feed more...
How to campaign for better food
Zofia Walczak & Matilda Lee
29th June, 2010
Concerned about the state of your food? Here are some ways to tackle the problem at root - from community gardens to animal welfare more...
FSA accused of running PR exercise for GM industry
Ecologist
27th May, 2010
Member of steering group resigns claiming the Food Standard Agency's (FSA) £500,000 public dialogue on genetically modified (GM) food is ignoring key issues about GM feed and labelling more...
Green Party victory start of 'historic new political force'
Ecologist
7th May, 2010
Newly elected MP Caroline Lucas said her party was now ready to 'take its rightful place in Parliament' after her landmark victory in yesterday's general election more... EU votes for labels on nano, cloned and GM food
Ecologist
5th May, 2010
UK and other member states expected to fight proposals to bring in compulsory labelling for consumers on novel foods more...
Crop scientists discover fungi alternative to pesticides
Ecologist
3rd March, 2010
Study identifies naturally occurring alternatives for controlling wireworm, a widespread potato pest in the UK more...
Brazilian GM crop surge reported
Ecologist
23rd February, 2010
Brazil becomes second biggest biotech grower after the US as industry predicts big increases in GM soybean, maize and cotton production in 2010 more...
India bans planting of first GM food crop
Ecologist
9th February, 2010
Campaigners welcome decision to put on hold cultivation of genetically modified (GM) aubergine crop, Bt Brinjal, until 'safety of product' established more...
Was 2009 the year the world turned against GM?
Claire Robinson and Jonathan Matthews
11th January, 2010
Despite promising the world in 2009, biotech corporations have increasingly raised the hackles of scientists and citizens worldwide more...
Monsanto named worst corporate climate lobbyist
Ecologist
15th December, 2009
US company wants its GM crops to be given carbon credits and to be at the forefront of tackling climate change despite link to deforestation more...Members
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