Plans to introduce a controversial GM variety of brinjal (aubergine / eggplant) in Bangladesh are opposed by 100 civil society organisations around the world. As Mae Wan Ho reports, the issue is arousing powerful passions ...
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A BBC documentary claimed 90% success for a controversial GM crop in Bangladesh, Bt brinjal, writes Claire Robinson. But as journalist Faisal Rahman discovered, there's no evidence to support the claim, the BBC relied on biased sources, and its journalists failed to investigate reports of widespread crop failure. Was it all an exercise in pro-GMO propaganda?
… | 30th July 2015 News GMOs Food Farming Media Bangladesh UK … 90% success for a controversial GM crop in Bangladesh, Bt brinjal, writes Claire … Fear', has come under attack from a Bangladeshi journalist for falsely portraying …
There's absolutely no evidence for BBC Panorama's claim of 90% success for Bt brinjal in Bangladesh, writes Claire Robinson. But that has not stopped the BBC Trust from dismissing all complaints against its monstrously dishonest report. Nor has it diminished the jubilation of GMO cheerleaders.
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Cornell’s 'no pest' Bt brinjal project in Bangladesh appears to be going great with 200 farmers signed up, reports Farida Akhter. Only its not - hardly any of the farmers who grew the GM plants in previous years have come back for more after their crops wilted, failed to ripen, or were devastated by pests.
… Bangladeshi farmers ditch GM brinjal Farida … Akhtar GMWatch | 5th February 2016 News Bangladesh GMOs Farming bt-brinjal.png … Cornell’s 'no pest' Bt brinjal project in Bangladesh appears to be going great with 200 …
Aid to countries such as Bangladesh and the Sahel region must double if rich nations want to curb global climate change the United Nations top development official has said.
… Un Ban Ki-moon United Nations Climate Change Bangladesh Global Warming Un Subsidies Climate … web pic 2_114.jpg Aid to countries such as Bangladesh and the Sahel region must double if … that would be worse affected, such as Bangladesh, contribute little to global …
The Panorama programme on GM foods and crops last Monday was a masterpiece of spin, bluster, misrepresentation and outright deceit, write Lawrence Woodward & Pat Thomas, with the BBC's top investigatory strand hijacked to force feed the UK population with the purest of pro-GMO propaganda.
… Comment GMOs Media UK Science Food Farming Bangladesh … Mark Lynas : Sweating manfully in the heat of Bangladeshi brinjal fields, this now notorious … tales of GM brinjal (aubergine) cropping in Bangladesh were given such an easy time. …
The Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture made its high-profile launch at the New York Climate Summit. But for a huge coalition of civil society organizations, it's a 'greenwash' initiative designed to promote intensive profit-driven industrial agriculture at the expense of small farmers, environment, and the real solutions.
… et la Souverainté Alimentaires (AMASSA) Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and … Community Development Association (CDA), Bangladesh Community Empowerment for Progress … EcoNexus, UK Equity and Justice Working Group Bangladesh (EquityBD). Family Farmers' …
Rice-eating peoples are very particular about the rice their diets are based on, writes Ted Greiner. And they have a strong aversion to yellow grains, the tell-tale sign of the deadly mould that causes beri-beri disease. That alone makes GMO 'Golden Rice' a non starter; 107 Nobel Laureates had better start eating their words.
… into promoting fresh leaves and vegetables In Bangladesh I was involved with a communication … approach to solving Vitamin A deficiency in Bangladesh . Food and Nutrition Bulletin 16 …
Even the most conservative estimates of sea level rise caused by climate change will cause a redrawing of the physical map of the planet. Here Cleo Paskal, Associate Fellow at Chatham House, looks at the potential consequences.
… sea-level rise could potentially push Bangladesh’s effective coastline inland by …
Golden rice was once hailed as the wonder crop that 'could save a million kids year', writes Glenn Stone. But in the 15 years since that bold prediction, the carotene enhanced GMO has been held back by persistent 'yield drag' and inconclusive nutrition outcomes. It now appears unlikely ever to fulfill its early promise.
… and researchers in Vietnam, India, and Bangladesh are also working with Golden Rice, …
Advocates of Golden Rice - a GMO rice that produces Vitamin A - present the debate over its use a clear moral choice with only one possible conclusion. But as Clare Westwood writes, the reality is very different ...
… field trials in the Philippines and in Bangladesh will, in all likelihood, be used to …
Following the hype and failure of last year's Copenhagen COP15 summit, the Ecologist outlines what's on the agenda at the forthcoming COP16 Cancun conference – and assesses the chances of progress...
… less-industrialised countries. In February, Bangladesh voiced strong opposition to the …
Prospects for a global climate deal under the UN are receding fast, writes Assaad Razzouk, as the Green Climate Fund is short-changed by donor nations. But there's still plenty to hope for with a private sector that's stepping up to the mark, and fast-growing decentralised climate action.
… by driving countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh and Egypt to build more coal-fired …
The dominant story about the future of the world food supply is logical, well known and widely disseminated, writes Jonathan Foley. It is also completely wrong.
… to the production of an average farm in Bangladesh today. In other words, we grow a …
The year 2014 is on track to be one of the hottest, if not the hottest, on record, according to preliminary estimates by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Their latest report, issued today at the UN climate talks in Lima, shows exceptional heat and flooding in many parts of the world.
… rains caused severe flooding in northern Bangladesh, northern Pakistan and India, …
Heathcote Williams remembers India's great campaigner Professor Nanjunda's whose direct actions against Monsanto, KFC, McDonalds, Coca-Cola and the WTO inspired a nation and created an unstoppable movement of 10 million ...
… 50 male and female farmers from India and Bangladesh He besieged Cargill's, the GM food …
The real reason why 'golden rice' remains uncultivated after a 20 year effort is its poor agronomic performance, write Angelika Hilbeck & Hans Herren. But beyond that, the very idea of golden rice as a 'solution' to Vitamin A deficiency fails to recognise the real causes of malnutrition - poverty, hunger and poor diet. How will golden rice reach poor children in the first place? And will they ever get the rich, oily diet they need to assimilate its fat-soluble nutrients?
… the crop in the Philippines, Indonesia and Bangladesh in the near future, Filipino …