agriculture

GM Science Review - spin not substance

Last edited 29 November 2002 at 9:00am
29 November, 2002

The Government's public debate on Genetically Modified (GM) crops staggered on today, with the announcement of those scientists chosen to form the Science Review Panel, a select body of experts charged with overseeing the Science Review strand of the debate.

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USAID and GM Food Aid

Last edited 7 October 2002 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Publication date: October 2002

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Bush using famine in Africa as GM marketing tool

Last edited 7 October 2002 at 8:00am
7 October, 2002

Research published today by Greenpeace exposes the Bush Administration's use of the famine in southern Africa as a marketing tool to push GM food in the continent. The document details how the offer of GM food aid by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the latest move in a ten-year marketing campaign designed to facilitate the introduction of US-developed GM crops into Africa. In addition, the US food aid programme effectively channels a huge covert subsidy to American GM farmers through the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust.

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Government announces GM debate - but are they serious?

Last edited 29 July 2002 at 8:00am
Soya

Soya

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Greenpeace response to Government announcement on a public GM Debate

Last edited 26 July 2002 at 8:00am
26 July, 2002

Greenpeace said today it would welcome a proper debate on GM crops but that there were major doubts over the Government's political and financial commitment to a serious public consultation.

Greenpeace GM campaigner Ben Ayliffe said,

"It would be great to have a real debate on GM food but the Government must reveal whether the future of GM is really up for discussion? Margaret Beckett must say whether or not the Government would be willing to ban GM crops in the UK following the outcome of this debate. Unless this happens, the debate is pointless."

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New research questions GM food safety

Last edited 19 July 2002 at 8:00am
supermarket chickens

supermarket chickens

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Environmental Trust: Organic and agroecological farming in the South

Last edited 7 February 2002 at 9:00am
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7 February, 2002

The crisis in Argentina in late 2001 illustrated again a frustrating and unjust reality: there is no direct relationship between the amount of food a country produces and the number of hungry people who live there. In 2001, Argentina harvested enough wheat to meet the needs of both China and India. Yet Argentina's people were hungry. Argentina's status as the world's second largest producer of GM crops - largely for export - could do nothing to solve its very real hunger problems at home. For fifty years conventional agriculture has been getting less and less sustainable.

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Recipes against hunger

Last edited 20 November 2001 at 9:00am
Bangladesh: ploughing

Bangladesh: ploughing

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Genetically modified plants

Last edited 23 October 2001 at 8:00am
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30 March, 2000

Centres of diversity are places where the special interrelation between our crop plants and their wild relatives is still apparent. In such places, tens of thousands of varieties of rice, potato, maize, or other food staples are still grown and used by local people. Centres of diversity are the basis not only for food security, but also for cultural traditions.

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The future of farming

Last edited 23 October 2001 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
30 April, 2001

Today's agriculture industry is more like mining than farming.Its system compromises the very earth on which all our future food needs depend. Only about 16%of the world 's farmland remains free of problems such as chemical pollution.

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