In the past decade, the sales pitch of the biotech companies has shifted with the climate of public opinion. Public scepticism has remained high, but politicians seem to have bought enthusiastically into the GM ‘solution’. In many ways this encapsulates where science has gone wrong – by inventing technologies without first deciding what problems need addressing. If GM crops are the answer, what exactly is the problem?
… Break Free Clare Oxborrow Becky Price Peter Riley | 1st November 2008 News Gm … construct built around a daffodil gene into rice to create ‘golden rice’ – rich in beta-carotene, the precursor …
Rural communities all over India are battling against a land grab of epic proportions. And one of the biggest causes of land grabs is for airports to support India's domestic aviation boom. Rose Bridger reports from Kerala, where four new 'green field' airports are meeting stiff local resistance.
… and paddy fields where farmers cultivate rice and other crops. Plans for a proposed … The 200 hectare site yielded 526 tonnes of rice last season. Farmers also cultivate many … PHOTO: An airport in Anakkara would pave over rice fields. Photo: saveanakkara.com Plans for …
Ten villages and surrounding farmland have already been wiped from the map for a 50 sq.km airport and surrounding 'aeropolis' or airport city in West Java, Indonesia, writes Rose Bridger. And while investors are offered an 'attractive incentives plan', villagers are subject to fierce state repression and brutality. Now only a single village remains standing, but residents continue to resist eviction and demand an end to the project.
… to enforce the land measurement rushed onto rice fields firing teargas. Crops and several … hectares for Kertajati Airport and Aerocity. Rice and many other crops are cultivated on … of their land. One way in which land prices are being manipulated, which indicates …
Communities facing around Taiwan's Taoyuan Airport are facing huge land grabs for a vast airport city that will line the pockets of powerful officials, politicians and developers, but leave them with nothing, writes Rose Bridger. Now, faced with official abuse and police brutality, they are fighting back with street protests and art projects.
… want to relocate. On 9th June 2010 villagers' rice fields were bulldozed by the government …
Whether we like it or not, the Government says that we must accept the necessity of genetically modified crops to fuel, feed and heal the world. Leading academics, researchers and campaigners in the GM arena address the science and the spin of the GM 'solution', as well as looking at alternatives that are already contributing to a sustainable farming future.
… Are our hands tied? Clare Oxborrow Becky Price Peter Riley | 1st November 2008 News Gm … publicly-funded scientists that GM ‘golden rice’ would put an end to blindness caused by … campaigner with Friends of the Earth; Becky Price is a researcher with GeneWatch UK; Peter …