Rechazo internacional a la siembra de maíz transgénico en México
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Las solicitudes de autorización para la siembra comercial de millones de hectáreas de maíz transgénico en varios estados del norte de México, realizadas por Monsanto y otras empresas desde septiembre 2012 han provocado un amplio rechazo en todo el país, por parte de numerosos movimientos sociales, organizaciones campesinas, urbanas, de consumidores, ambientalistas, estudiantes, artistas y muchas otras. Por ser México la cuna del maíz, el tema es mucho más que solamente nacional, ya que de autorizarse, significaría el hecho inédito de contaminación transgénica del centro de origen de un cultivo alimentario de importancia global.
News Release: Last Chance for Kickstarter to stop release of risky seeds
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There is less than a day to go before the popular crowdfunding site Kickstarter.com hands hundreds of thousands of dollars to a controversial project for the widespread and unregulated distribution of over half a million extreme-bioengineered seeds. Kickstarter, which stands to make over $22,000 from the project (1), has steadfastly refused to comment on its listing of a project to make and distribute ‘glowing genetically modified plants’ using Synthetic Biology.
South Africa exports ‘unapproved’ GM maize to Zimbabwe, continues to export to Mexico, contaminating both the region and centre of origin
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African Centre for Biosafety, ETC Group, FoodMattersZimbabwe and CTDT
Johannesburg, Harare, Mexico City 15 April 2013
Maíz transgénico de Sudáfrica: imposición en México y Zimbawe
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BOLETÍN DE PRENSA
Grupo ETC, Centro Africano para la Bioseguridad,
FoodMattersZimbabwe y CTDT
Johannesburgo, Harare y Ciudad de México 15 de abril de 2013
Nuevas importaciones de maíz transgénico de Sudáfrica a México
Cargamentos no autorizados hacia Zimbawe
En peligro el centro de origen y las formas de vida campesinas del maíz en Mesoamérica y en África
Tunis 2013: If we rely on corporate seed, we lose food sovereignty
Submitted by Joëlle Deschambault on
GROWING POWER IN PEASANT SEEDS SYSTEMS: Farmers seeds and struggle against GMOs, AGRA- 2nd Green Revolution. Tunis, March 29.
It has become crucial to defend seeds. In the past 20 or 30 years, what was once seen as normal – peasant farmers growing, selecting, saving and exchanging seeds – has come under attack from corporations seeking to control and commodify the very basis of agriculture.
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Nano Risk Governance
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While some ETC Group staff were in Caracas strategizing with partners to strengthen the global opposition to Terminator, others of us were subjected to the slog of the CBD meeting in Granada. And one of us was spending a few days with unlimited access to free chocolate at Swiss Re's opulent Centre for Global Dialogue near Zurich. Swiss Re, the world's largest re-insurer (an insurer of insurance companies) is concerned - no surprise - about those risks associated with nanotechnology that may result in financial losses for the company.
X prize-ing open the genome for $$$
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Not content with heading for the stars, the corporate sponsored X-Foundation that awards the X-prize has now set a bounty for commericalising the neXt frontier - the human genome. According to this article in the Wall Street Journal the X-foundation will award a new X-prize of between $5-$20 million to the first inventor of a gene sequencer that can decode the DNA of 100 people in a matter of weeks. behind it is craig venter, the genomics mogul.
Terminator Technology Debated
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Two of us from ETC are in Granada, Spain following the Working Group on 8j the CBD body that has the mandate to recognize and protect the traditional knowledge, innovation and practices of indigenous peoples. By the end of the week, the Working Group on 8(j) will make recommendations to COP8 (Curitiba, Brazil, March) on the social and economic impacts of Terminator. Heres a brief round-up of government interventions (just the highlights) in yesterdays working group.
What next? disagreements?
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Some of us at ETC have just spent the past three days in a drafting group for the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation's inspiring What Next? project. Hopefully we will write more about What Next? as it gets closer to completion. Briefly the What Next? project its an attempt to stop, reflect and look forward to the challenges and issues Civil Society faces in the coming thirty years. How will we organise ourselves? what new global trends will we be leading or responding to?
Pharmanoia?
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In an article appearing in this months issue of Nature Biotechnology, Dr. Henry I. Miller declares that activism against the pharmaceutical industry is driven by Paranoia and overlooks Pharmas systemic ills.
New Year. New Blog. New Articles.
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Welcome to our ETC Blog - an occassional space for analysis, links and flagging up some of the more interesting stuff that ETC staff are reading, writing and thinking about on a day to day basis.