Billions of dollars are invested in projects geared towards maintaining the status quo and flogging biotechnological solutions: Bill Gates’ philanthropic foundation has made sustainable development into an inexhaustible source of profit. By Manlio Masucci, Navdanya International Public subsidies, tax...
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...
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...
Independent Science News, 16 November 2020 | Source In January 2020, the Gates foundation launched “The Bill & Melinda Gates Agricultural Innovations LLC”, also known as “Gates Ag One”. Gates Ag One was formulated to be a subsidiary of...
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...
The Supreme Court Ruling Upheld India’s Law, not Monsanto’s False Claims on Patents on Seeds | By Dr Vandana Shiva, 9 January 2019 | Monsanto has spread the false claim in the media that on 8th January 2019 Supreme...
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