{"id":50441,"date":"2025-12-10T13:56:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/?p=50441"},"modified":"2025-12-22T10:43:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:43:41","slug":"new-techniques-old-problems-gmo-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/ca\/new-techniques-old-problems-gmo-report\/","title":{"rendered":"New Techniques, Old Problems: Navdanya International\u2019s Report on the Global Deregulation of GMOs"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is also available in: Angl\u00e8s<\/a>, Itali\u00e0<\/a>, Espanyol<\/a>, Franc\u00e8s<\/a>, Alemany<\/a>, Portuguese, Brazil<\/a>, Grec<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n

Navdanya International has released the report Seeds of Resistance<\/a><\/em>, which documents the global spread of both old and new GMOs and the dismantling of biosafety regulations across continents.<\/p>\n

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On November 22, Navdanya International presented this new report for the first time at the international meeting Semillas en Resistencia Global<\/em><\/a>, held at the National Museum of Popular Cultures in Mexico City, together with peasants, Indigenous communities, researchers and activists from Latin America, Africa and Europe.<\/p>\n

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The publication comes as the European Union moves toward deregulating next\u2011generation GMOs, paving the way for gene\u2011edited organisms to enter fields and dinner plates without labeling, traceability, or proper risk assessment.<\/p>\n

The provisional trilogue agreement<\/a> on next\u2011generation GMOs and New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) creates an artificial distinction between categories of NGTs, allowing many of these organisms to be treated as \u201cequivalent\u201d to conventional plants \u2014 effectively sidestepping years of precautionary safeguards. This shift, driven by pressure from the agro\u2011industry lobby, has sparked widespread opposition across Europe. Farmers\u2019 networks, consumer groups, and food sovereignty movements have raised their voices, demanding transparency, freedom of choice, and full respect for the precautionary principle.<\/p>\n

The report reveals how the GMO and gene\u2011editing package is spreading rapidly. In South Africa, over 3 million hectares are planted with GM crops, covering more than 85% of maize, 95% of soy, and nearly all cotton production. In Colombia, GMO cultivation has surpassed 100,000 hectares, while in Bangladesh over 65,000 farmers now grow Bt eggplant. Yet, more than 95% of the world\u2019s seeds still come from traditional local systems, showing that food sovereignty continues to rest largely on the seeds safeguarded by farming communities.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Manlio Masucci<\/small><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

The study highlights how the growth of GMO and gene\u2011edited crops goes hand in hand with the concentration of control over seeds and genetic traits, even as most of the world\u2019s seeds still come from traditional local systems. Independent research has reported unintended mutations, genetic instability, contamination, and biodiversity loss linked to technologies such as CRISPR\u2011Cas and gene drive, all in the absence of genuine scientific consensus on the safety of GMOs and NGTs. At the Semillas en Resistencia Global<\/em> convergence, Navdanya International emphasized that these dynamics of deregulation and concentration of power over seeds are being repeated on every continent, directly affecting peoples who depend on agrobiodiversity for their food sovereignty.<\/p>\n

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Deregulation is unleashing a new wave of patents on seeds and genetic traits, strengthening the power of corporate giants and making it harder for small farmers and independent breeders to access and improve seeds. Ruchi Shroff, director of Navdanya International, stresses that there is nothing \u201cnatural\u201d about next\u2011generation GMOs: the techniques may change, but the underlying logic remains one of seed privatization and the concentration of power in the hands of a few multinational companies, with risks and costs shifted onto farmers and citizens.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Manlio Masucci<\/small><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In his contribution to the report, agronomist and geneticist Salvatore Ceccarelli, a member of Navdanya International\u2019s Board of Directors, describes GMOs and NGTs as \u201cevolutionarily losing solutions\u201d because they rely on genetic uniformity, whereas both ecology and medicine show that diversity is what underpins productivity, climate resilience, and health. He argues that agrobiodiversity provides farmers with lasting tools to face climate change and pests without depending on patented technologies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Vandana Shiva, president of Navdanya International, connects this struggle to a broader vision of ecological democracy: for indigenous and peasant communities, seeds are living heritage, not raw material to be patented. Defending seed freedom means defending peoples\u2019 right to choose their food system, their agricultural culture, and their future. \u201cSeeds of Resistance\u201d shows how alliances between peasant networks, indigenous communities, social movements, and consumer organizations \u2014 from Latin America to Europe, from Africa to Asia \u2014 have won bans, moratoria, protection for native seeds, and GMO\u2011free territories, while hundreds of organizations are calling for a halt to the deregulation of next\u2011generation GMOs and for strict rules on labeling, traceability, and risk assessment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Navdanya International has released the report Seeds of Resistance, which documents the global spread of both old and new GMOs and the dismantling of biosafety regulations across continents. On November 22, Navdanya International presented this new report for the first time at the international meeting Semillas en Resistencia Global, held at the National Museum of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[345,50,161,23],"tags":[102,298],"class_list":["post-50441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-focus","category-news","category-our-articles","category-press-releases","tag-gmos","tag-nbts","thematic_area-seed-freedom","thematic_area-future-of-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NHGRI-97218.jpg","wpml_translations":[{"language_code":"it","post_id":50431,"original":true},{"language_code":"en","post_id":50441,"original":false},{"language_code":"es","post_id":50448,"original":false},{"language_code":"de","post_id":51555,"original":false}],"custom_fields":{"classic-editor-remember":["classic-editor"],"_edit_lock":["1773771034:2"],"_edit_last":["2"],"_wpml_media_duplicate":["1"],"_wpml_media_featured":["1"],"_thumbnail_id":["50434"],"wpl_featured_image":["0"],"wpl_sidebar_option":["on"],"wpl_share_buttons":["on"],"cmplz_hide_cookiebanner":[""],"_last_translation_edit_mode":["native-editor"],"_wp_old_slug":["new-techniques-old-problems-navdanya-internationals-report-on-the-global-deregulation-of-gmos"],"_wpml_media_has_media":["1"]},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9KkNM-d7z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50441"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50554,"href":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50441\/revisions\/50554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}