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.
… Beri-beri disease and resistance to GM 'Golden Rice' Ted Greiner | 13th July 2016 Comment GMOs Health Food Culture Society rice-leaf-cut.jpg Rice-eating peoples are very particular about …
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?
… who is to blame for the failure of GMO Golden Rice? Angelika Hilbeck Hans Herren | 15th … The real reason why 'golden rice' remains uncultivated after a 20 year … But beyond that, the very idea of golden rice as a 'solution' to Vitamin A deficiency …
Greenpeace is being attacked for 'crimes against humanity' by 100 Nobel laureates for blocking GMO 'golden' rice, reports Claire Robinson. But the low-yielding crop is years away from going on sale, and there is no proof of any nutritional benefit to the malnourished children it's meant to benefit. Could the distinguished prize-winners have fallen for slick pro-GMO PR and spin?
… campaign exploits Nobel laureates in 'Golden Rice' Greenpeace attack Claire Robinson | 4th … GMOs Campaigning Science Health Food golden_rice-cut.jpg Greenpeace is being attacked for … 100 Nobel laureates for blocking GMO 'golden' rice, reports Claire Robinson. But the …
GMO promoters enthuse about how GM crops will be able to help the poor and hungry, far in the future, writes Claire Robinson. But they are silent about the currently-planted GM crops - 99% of them herbicide-tolerant or insecticidal. Could it be because opponents of the technology are being proved right at every turn?
… them. At all. 3. Talk a lot about golden rice and gene editing What GMO promoters do want to talk about is: GMO golden rice, which they say will save poor people … promise, not actual delivery. GMO golden rice has been beset by basic R&D problems and …
BASF are to halve their GM research and development and reduce the time spent on developing these technologies, writes Peter Melchett. Given the many problems that GM agriculture is facing, and that new non-GE technologies offer such valuable benefits as increased crop yields, does BASF's announcement spell the beginning of the end of GM crops?
… Gm BASF Farming Agriculture Organic golden rice.jpg BASF are to halve their GM research … made for GM. A classic example is Golden Rice , originally meant to deliver additional … campaigners regularly claim that Golden Rice either is or could be saving lives and …
Perhaps all the 'do gooders' busy forcing industrial models of agriculture onto poor but independent African farmers really do think they are helping them, writes Colin Todhunter. But if so they are deeply deluded. All they will achieve is the takeover of export-oriented agribusiness and GMOs, the destruction of agroecological farming systems, and a future of debt and landlessness.
… Farming Africa GMOs Nutrition Health Finance rice-farmer-burundi-cut.jpg Perhaps all the … sweet potato, pigeon pea, cowpea, banana and rice, which corporations are attempting to … As is the case with the controversial Golden Rice research and development project, the …
With the International Monsanto Tribunal beginning this week (14-16 October) in The Hague, MICK GRANT reports from Vietnam with this special investigation for The Ecologist five decades after the company's lethal herbicide Agent Orange first devastated the country - and discovers the agribusiness giant is sneaking its way back into Vietnam with modern herbicides and 'Roundup-Ready' GMO crops.
… of their food supply (directly spraying rice-fields, for instance). Experimental in … Bayer was permitted to trial experimental GM rice at a US university. The experiment got out of control, wreaked havoc on local rice production, and infected 30 percent of US …
Bhaskar Save, the 'Gandhi of natural farming', died last year after a lifetime of organic growing and determined campaigning against the destruction of India's traditional, sustainable agriculture, writes Colin Todhunter. His 2006 open letter, published here, sets out a devastating critique of industrial agriculture and its impacts, and an eloquent and timely agroecological manifesto.
… scientists' like you. When a grain of rice can reproduce a thousand-fold within … erosion under heavy monsoon rains. How dwarf rice triggered a cycle of ruin and destruction … jowar or bajra (native millets). While rice is suitable for rain-fed farming, its …
The remarkable Leuser ecosystem in Aceh, Sumatra, has faced massive destruction over recent years with rice farms, palm oil, roads and mines, writes Bill Laurance. But that's all set to end with a moratorium on forest clearance that's supported at the highest levels of government, both state and national. This is definitely news to celebrate! But we must also maintain our vigilance.
… massive destruction over recent years with rice farms, palm oil, roads and mines, writes … much of the region's forests for oil palm, rice and mining expansion while opening it up …
Global food production may need to double over the next century to feed a growing world population, writes Tim Radford - just as yields crops in major crop-growing areas fall due to higher temperatures. But there is another way: to build sustainability into our food production and consumption.
… crops and around a third of all wheat and rice will be grown in regions vulnerable to … of the maize, 33% of the wheat and 37% of all rice is grown in areas that will be vulnerable … and those designed to reduce food prices. Yet there are some broader policies …
The new People Need Nature report - published to coincide with this week's annual Oxford Real Farming Conference - warns that modern farming practices are not good for wildlife. But they're not good for humans either. And with predictions that we will need to produce 70 per cent more food to feed a third more mouths by 2050 the question of seed ownership and diversity cannot be ignored. KATHRYN HINDESS reports
… have become homogenised. Three crops - wheat, rice and corn (also known as maize) - account … seeds include staple food crops like maize, rice, wheat, potatoes and teff (in Ethiopia). …
The mainstream British media have long acted as cheerleaders for GMOs, but none quite so much as The Times and its disgraced correspondent Matt Ridley, writes Colin Todhunter. His most recent article on the topic is a strange concoction of misrepresentations, falsehoods and blunders dressed up as science, and reflects both his ignorance of the real facts and his deep ideological commitment to corporate profit and power.
… Greenpeace still campaigns against Golden Rice , a vitamin-enhanced variety that backers … opinion and addresses the issue of Golden Rice that Ridley also misrepresents in his …
The huge marquee for VIP nuclear guests was already erected at the Hinkley site; champagne was already on ice; VIPs were en route to Somerset to party at the final breakthrough, when hundreds of thousands of contractual pages were due to be authorised with co-signatures of the contracting parties. Suddenly, everything was off. So what really happened asks DAVID LOWRY
… Xi Jinping in the White House, Susan Rice, the American National Security Adviser, … States." Not mincing her words any further, Rice said Chinese hacking "that targets …
The Thai government was right to evict an indigenous community from the Kaeng Krachan National Park at gunpoint and burn down homes, a Bangkok court has ruled - even though one resident had lived there for 100 years and the Park was only created in 1981.
… the Karen and burned about 100 houses and rice barns in Bang Kloy village. In 2014, six …
With the Wall Street Journal warning that the GMO crop boom may be over in the face of superweeds, higher seed prices, falling yields and farmer antipathy, writes Pat Thomas, the Monsanto-Bayer merger is a sign of weakness as both companies struggle to deliver growth and profits to match shareholder expectations. We had better be ready to press home our advantage!
… over in the face of superweeds, higher seed prices, falling yields and farmer antipathy, … suggested that it would also lead to rising prices and fewer choices for farmers and … a project to give away a vitamin A enhanced rice ('Golden Rice') to farmers in the Global …
The Gates Foundation has received a 57,000 strong petition denouncing its support for a 'biopirated' GM banana program in Africa, and calling on it to suspend a feeding trial on US students, writes Vanessa Amaral-Rogers. The banana threatens both the health of the students, say campaigners, and the future of African agriculture.
… follow the model of the now notorious 'Golden Rice', and has the purported goal of reducing …
Actors across the UK political spectrum are recognising that the time is ripe for fundamental change; a Progressive Alliance of the left and centre parties, offering comprehensive constitutional, electoral, policy reform and tough measures on climate change, writes ALEX CHAPMAN
… are sinking into the sea , along with the rice which feeds many of the poorest around …
Rooted in the Andean principles of sharing, resilience and 'Vivir Bien' (Living Well), Bolivian activists in the world's highest capital city are building cooperative, grassroots alternatives to the profit-oriented economy, writes Sian Cowman. Their weekly lunch party is just the most visible way in which they are challenging the injustice of capitalism and the fragmentation it inflicts on communities.
… have been losing ground to fried chicken and rice, such as quinoa, cassava, corn, fava …
Among Cuba's greatest achievements is its organic farming sector, writes Miguel Altieri. Developed in the 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union, small agroecological farms now employ 300,000 campesinos and provide an abundance of healthy fruit and vegetables. But now US food and agribusiness corporations are eyeing up a multi-billion dollar business opportunity.
… degrading and yields of some key crops like rice had begun to decline . When Cuban trade …
Global CO2 concentrations have reached a historic new base of 400 parts per million, writes Alex Kirby, and are unlikely to fall below that level - 40% higher than the pre-industrial era - for many centuries to come. The WMO released the news just as the UK commits to a new London runway.
… from human activities like cattle breeding, rice growing, fossil fuel exploitation, …
The EPA's release of an internal memorandum last month showing the increasing use of the cancer-linked weedkiller glyphosate looked like a welcome opening up of information to the public, writes Carey Gillam. But then it was suddenly withdrawn, along with other related documents - though not before she grabbed her copy and reviewed the scale and scope of glyphosate usage.
… pounds, up from 1.4 million pounds; and rice use was estimated at 800,000 pounds, …
Investigative reporter, TOM FAWTHROP has just returned from the site of the Don Sahong - a hydrodam being constructed in the middle of an eco-paradise of wetlands in Southern Laos where over 200 fish species have been recorded.
… consumed by Lao people. Based on first-sale prices and the Mekong River Commission's … go ahead, then Vietnam will cease to be a rice exporter, and the delta denied sediment … UNDP, FAO and WFP that regularly buy Mekong rice for humanitarian missions would be …
Supported by state and national governments, palm oil plantations are advancing over the rainforest hills of Sabah, Malaysia, writes Sophie Chao. In their way: the indigenous Murut of Bigor, whose culture, livelihood and very lives are under threat as forests and farms fall to chainsaws and bulldozers, enriching loggers and distant investors beyond the dreams of avarice.
… and distant investors beyond the dreams of avarice. In the remote village of Bigor, about … including tapioca, sweet potato, bananas, rice and various vegetables: "The forest is …
La Guajira, a dusty but spartanly beautiful region in Colombia's desert north is in the grips of a crisis. Climate change, desertification and water shortages have combined to create a perfect storm for the local rural community: a drought so severe some places did not feel a drop of rain for three years writes LAURA DIXON
… of climate change, drought and rising food prices Laura Dixon - La Guajira Colombia | 17th … once a week. Everything they have to buy - rice, oil, sugar - had become more expensive …