2016

There have been no imports from the US to Brazil this year, though the corn shortfall is so severe that the chicken producers have cut output by 10% in recent months

Report has begun the job of describing what is at stake, but missed some important questions

Dana Perls, food and technology campaigner for Friends of the Earth, says there must be no commercial or environmental release of gene drives

The Greens/European Free Alliance say the challenges faced by agriculture will not be solved through GMOs but by converting to agroecology. Below is their report on recent encouraging events in the EU Parliament

ETC Group comments on National Academy of Sciences report on gene drives

Secrecy and industry lobbying cloud what should be the science-based process of regulating endocrine disrupting chemicals in Europe

Commission’s persistent failure to publish the criteria, which were due by the end of 2013, breaches EU law

Authorising GM carnations would encourage the use of a diabetes medicine as a herbicide, while the GM maize is resistant to glyphosate, a probable carcinogen

Herbicide combination is used on Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Xtend crops

The European Parliament has voted to accept a critical report on the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition – an aid initiative that has received £600 million from the UK’s Dept for International Development (DFID)