2016

Pesticides sprayed on GMO crops driving the move

Blow dealt to Monsanto, which wants exporters to check cargoes to make sure farmers had paid to produce its GM soybeans

Burkina Faso is phasing out the production of GM cotton introduced by Monsanto because growers are unhappy with the short length of its fibre

New policy follows a recent announcement that GM crop developer Syngenta will be taken over by a Chinese state-owned firm

In 2015, for the first time, the acreage used for the crops declined, says industry-backed group ISAAA

There's absolutely no evidence for BBC Panorama's claim of 90% success for Bt brinjal in Bangladesh, writes Claire Robinson. But that has not stopped the BBC Trust from dismissing all complaints against its monstrously dishonest report. Nor has it diminished the jubilation of GMO cheerleaders

“HCB, with the complicity of the French government, has dismissed any opinion contradictory to the interests of the GM industry”

The GUE/NGL Group had advocated a total ban on the substance

Proposed EU legislation on “Trade Secrets Protection” is a threat to EU citizens’ rights to access information on pesticides and other products

Fungicides mancozeb and maneb also linked with higher skin cancer risk