Third World Network Biosafety Information Service, 11 January 2021 | Source On 5 January 2021, the Peruvian Congress approved Law 31111, extending by 15 years its moratorium on the import and production of GMOs that are intended for release...
By Natasha Foote – EURACTIV.com, 3 December 2020 | Source The current procedure for the approval of active substances in pesticides “raises concerns” according to the EU Ombudsman, who outlined several recommendations for measures to improve the approval process...
Hundreds of civil society and Indigenous Peoples organizations call on the UN agency to renounce planned alliance with CropLife International Rome, 19 November 2020 – Today 352 organizations in 63 countries representing hundreds of thousands of farmers, fisherfolk, agricultural...
76 organizations from across Europe have signed a letter to the European Commission Executive Vice-President, Frans Timmermans, calling for a stop to the approval and export pesticides containing substances banned in Europe, which later return through food imports. To:...
By Claire Robinson – GM Watch, 3 October 2020 | Source New study challenges regulatory assumptions and practices. Report by Claire Robinson Mixtures of pesticide residues commonly found in foods in the EU can have adverse effects on health...
CityVoice, 10 August 2020 | Source On 6 August 2020, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) in collaboration with the African Faith and Justice Network (AFJN), Navdanya International, and the Institute for Research and Promotion of Alternative Development (IRPAD)...
UN Environment Programme, 6 July 2020 | Source COVID-19 is just one example of the rising trend of diseases – from Ebola to MERS to West Nile and Rift Valley fevers – caused by viruses that have jumped from...
By Tom Polansek, Ludwig Burger, Sabahatjahan Contractor – Reuters, 4 May 2020 | Source (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court has blocked Bayer AG from selling an agricultural weed killer in the United States, the latest setback for a...
RT, Going Underground, 4 May 2020 | Source We speak to Dr. Vandana Shiva, the founder of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy, who was awarded the Right Livelihood Award. She discusses why the war-like...
By Carey Gillam, USRTK, 28 April 2020 | Source The Bayer AG annual shareholders’ meeting got underway Tuesday in Germany, drawing the attention of not only investors and analysts but also activists, lawyers and cancer patients who want to...
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