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...
An entire continent is being put under siege by western powers through a new face for a colonization no longer imposed through armies. Instead, the use of equally powerful weapons is being wielded – intellectual property laws, imposed on...
Con il provvedimento della Commissione Agricoltura della Camera dei Deputati, un vasto fronte di associazioni e movimenti ha impedito che gli OGM fossero, di fatto, reintrodotti con un nome strumentale e approcci su cui molti scienziati e la Corte...
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...
This January 7-13, 2021 Navdanya International participated in the annual Oxford Real Farming Conference. Although previously based in the UK, the now online conference brought together multiple food and farming movements and actors− ranging from farmers, activists, policy makers...
The Temple of Understanding ECO JUSTICE FOR ALL Online Speaker Series presents Dr. Vandana Shiva speaking on the World Food Emergency followed by Q&A on Feb 12, 2021 at 10-11:30am ET “Regeneration, for me, is recognizing that we live...
ippmedia.com, 14 January 2021 | Source Agriculture minister Prof Adolf Mkenda made the announcement on Tuesday afternoon at the Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) Mikocheni centre in Dar es Salaam, saying the decision has been made to conserve genetic...
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...
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 Dr Vandana Shiva – Deccan Herald, 2 January 2021 | Source We call rice ‘Akshat’ — the permanent, everlasting, unbroken, undamaged, whole. India is the centre of diversity of rice. From one wild grass Oryza Sativa, Indian peasants...