The industrial agriculture lobby is back on the offensive to avoid missing its opportunity with a second generation of GMOs, especially after Europe imposed strict rules on the first generation. Agribusiness’ main objective is to exempt new breeding techniques...
It is a black January for agribusiness lobbyists and stakeholders. Mexico, Peru and Tanzania closed the doors to GMOs, while the Italian government was pushed, by an extensive civil society campaign, not only to confirm the ban to the...
Twenty six farmers organisations, environmental movements and consumer associations in Italy collectively launched a powerful campaign this week, which prevented the government from passing 4 bills inspired by the agribusiness lobby. The bills were proposed by the Minister of...
On December 22, a parliamentary process in favor of GMOs and new breeding techniques (NBTs) has begun at the Italian Chamber’s Agricultural Commission. A process which opens a very risky path, since it could lead to a green light...
Today, thanks to the Coronavirus crisis, the rotting of our current world structures has come further into evidence. The pandemic, compounded with an already ongoing climate and ecological crisis, as well as ballooning social inequalities, has placed us at...
Press Statement by Dr Vandana Shiva, 7 September 2020 Research Foundation for Science Technology and Ecology New GMOs which are gene edited are being rushed to the market on the claim that they are “natural” on the grounds that...
Brussels, 30 / 06 / 2020 Please support a global moratorium on the environmental release of gene drive organisms Dear Commissioner Sinkevičius, Dear Commissioner Kyriakides, We, the undersigned civil society organizations, write to you to request that the EU...
Navdanya International joins 20+ European organisations calling upon the European Commission to support an international moratorium on the release into the environment of organisms modified by gene drive technology. OPEN LETTER TO COMMISSIONER VELLA AND COMMISSIONER ANDRIUKAITIS Position of...
Navdanya International supports the international call by global food leaders & movements for a moratorium on Gene Drives
Hundreds of millions of dollars are being invested by U.S. Military, companies and foundations on gene drives, a highly controversial technology aimed at genetic extinction. This is what emerges in The Gene Drives Files a set of over 1.200...