The Struggle for the Expropriation of Syngenta
Showdown Between the Social Movements and Agribusiness in Brazil
by Isabella Kenfield
January 07, 2007
COMMUNITIES MUST HAVE THE RIGHT TO REJECT GMOS
COMMNUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF A REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOSAFETY
ABUJA, November 27- 29th, 2006
The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) organised a regional conference on Biosafety in Abuja,
Nigeria from November 27 to 29th, 2006. The theme of the conference was "African Biosafety Response".
The conference ,which was attended by NGO representatives from Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Togo and Cameroun as well as
international scientists, academics, officials of Nigerian government agencies and ministries, farmers' bodies, lawyers,
GERMANY PERMITS FIRST TRIAL GMO WHEAT PLANTINGS
SOURCE: Checkbiotech, SwitzerlandURL: http://www.checkbiotech.org/root/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsletter&topic_i...
DATE: 27.11.2006
HAMBURG (Reuters) - The German government has permitted the first plantings of genetically-modified wheat for research, it said on Friday.
Planting of about 1,200 square metres of GMO wheat had been approved at Gatersieben in Saxony-Anhalt in east Germany on the site of
the Leibniz agricultural research institute, German food safety agency BVL said.
Genetic engineering no magic bullet for Africa's hunger
BY ERIC HOLT-GIMENEZ
SPECIAL TO THE REGISTER
November 17, 2006
The Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
recently announced their joint $150 million Alliance for a Green
Revolution in Africa for the continent's 180 million impoverished
farmers who - they claim - were bypassed by the Green Revolution.
What? For 25 years, the Consultative Group for International
Agricultural Research - the entity that brings together the key Green
Revolution institutions - invested 40 percent to 45 percent of its $350
Wal-Mart Charged with Selling Nonorganic Food as Organic
By Mark Kastel
Cornucopia Institute, November 14, 2006
From: www.cornucopia.org
PRESS RELEASE
Contact:
Mark Kastel - 608-625-2042
Wal-Mart Charged with Selling Nonorganic Food as Organic
Group Asks USDA to Fully Investigate Organic Product Misrepresentation
