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Experts, including farmers, scientists, groups involved in value chains and representatives from governments, international organizations and development agencies from mountain systems in every arable continent joined forces at the International Conference on Ecological Organic Agriculture in Mountain Ecosystems in Thimphu, Bhutan March 5th to 8th, 2014 to develop an action......
The Agricultural Minister of Bhutan who released Navdanya's new report on Agroecology at International conference on Ecological Agriculture at Thimpu, coorganised by Navdanya with Govt of Bhutan, Millenium Institute,and IFOAM.
Oil/Environment MinisterMoily’s approval of more than 200 GMO trials on wheat , rice, canola, cotton by companies like Monsanto, Mahyco, Bayer , BASF is a threat to our Seed Freedom and Food Freedom.
Most approvals granted by Mr. Moily are for bt crops or for ht (herbicide tolerant) GMOs.......
Monsanto’s operation in India illustrates monopolization and manipulation of the market economy, tradition, technology, and misgovernance. The world’s largest producer of genetically engineered seeds has been selling genetically modified (GM) in India for the last decade to benefit the Indian farmers – or so the company claims.
In a country of......
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Prominent social groups working on organic farming in Punjab have reacted strongly to promotion of genetically modified (GM) crops by agri major Mahyco and scientists of the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), describing it as a ‘trap’ by agri business corporations.
In a statement issued here on Saturday, the......
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India has overtaken Canada to emerge as the fourth largest country to grow biotech or genetically modified (GM) crops in 2013 as farmers here planted Bt cotton in about 11 million hectares.
In the previous year, farmers in India had planted Bt cotton — the only approved GM crop for commercial......
Read more: India tops Canada as 4th largest country growing GM crops
Patent granted on screening biodiversity in soybean plants for climate adaption and disease resistance.
26 February 2014, Munich.
Today the European Patent Office in Munich (EPO) is granting a patent for Monsanto on screening and selecting for soybean plants being adapted to certain climate zones (EP08742297). The plants are supposed to show......
Read more: Monsanto’s Soybean Biopiracy
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