Agriculture

EU sparks controversy with approval of GMPotato

In a departure from traditional policy, the EU has approved German chemical company BASF

Publication Date: 
17/03/2010
Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest
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Agriculture, Potato, Food Policy, GM Crops, Trade, Food Safety, GMOs, European Union (EU)
Agriculture

GM food debate hots up again

Gilles-Eric Seralini, one of the first scientists to warn the world about the dangers of genetically modified food, counters pro-GM scientists in an interview with Savvy Soumya Misra. Some scientists are planning to write to the Indian government, saying you never carried out any independent study and had no access to Bt gene of maize or brinjal. What do you have to say?

Publication Date: 
15/03/2010
Savvy Soumya Misra
Down to Earth
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Agriculture, GM Crops, Health Effects, Pesticides And Toxins, Food Safety, GMOs, Scientists, Supreme Court, India, Monsanto, Mahyco, Bt Brinjal
Agriculture

Billed to confuse

If the nationwide furore over Bt brinjal was driven by the fear of unsafe food being pushed down the throat, the proposed Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (brai) bill goes a step further to silence all opposition. The bill will bring about changes in regulating the research, transport, import, manufacture and use of genetically modified (GM) products in the country.

Publication Date: 
15/03/2010
Savvy Soumya Misra, K Dinkar
Down to Earth
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Agriculture, Soyabean, Food Contamination, Health Effects, Pesticides And Toxins, Food Safety, GMOs, Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering, Legislation, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), India, Mahyco, Bt Brinjal, Bt Cotton
Agriculture

Sweeping powers, glaring omissions

The biotech regulatory Bill gags dissent and takes away the power of states without providing any safeguards to farmers and consumers
Latha Jishnu / New Delhi March 11, 2010, 0:42 IST

Publication Date: 
11/03/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Agriculture, Agricultural Research, GM Crops, Biosafety, GMOs, Biotechnology, Bt Cotton
Agriculture

Interpreting the colour green

March 10 : Ecologists like me are called

Publication Date: 
10/03/2010
Vandana Shiva
Asian Age (New Delhi)
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Agriculture, Green Revolution, Agricultural Research, GM Crops, GMOs
Agriculture

Bt brinjal: Separating fact from fiction

Should Bt brinjal be banned for cultivation? Those who advocate this are closing off the non-pesticide option and arguing in favour of pesticide-based production of brinjal.

The use of Bt brinjal could be allowed on a carefully controlled basis, limiting as much as possible the spread of the Bt-gene.

Bhaskar Balakrishnan

Publication Date: 
03/03/2010
Business Line (New Delhi)
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Agriculture, Agricultural Research, GM Crops, GMOs, Bt Brinjal
Environment

Proceedings of the 3 day meet on save Western Ghats at the Keystone Campus, Keystone Foundation, Kotagiri, 18-20 February 2010

This publication includes the proceedings of the 3 day meet on Save Western Ghats at the Keystone Campus, Keystone Foundation, Kotagiri from 18-20 February 2010. The purpose being to highlight the issues and challenges being faced by Western Ghats over decades in the light of its importance as an ecologically sensitive and biodiversity hotspot area.

Publication Date: 
20/02/2010
Keystone Foundation
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Nilgiri, Western Ghats, Organic Farming, Mining, Dams, Thermal Power Plants, Biosphere Reserves, Biodiversity, GMOs, India
Science And Technology

Activists concerned over biotech Bill

Mahim Pratap Singh

BHOPAL: After protests over the past few months against commercial introduction of Bt brinjal in the country, activists fighting against genetically modified food in Madhya Pradesh are now calling the proposed Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill an effort to stifle anti-GM voices.

Publication Date: 
19/02/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
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Food Safety, GMOs, Science And Technology, Biotechnology
Science And Technology

Response to the proposed Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India Bill, 2009

The purpose of any regulation around Genetic Engineering and related modern biotechnology applications flows from the inherent risks and hazards associated with these technologies.
India does not have a separate statute to govern the regulation of GMOs in our food and farming systems. This means that we have only executive orders/rules under the Environment Protection

Publication Date: 
14/02/2010
Department of Biotechnology
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GM Crops, Biosafety, GMOs, Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering, Government Of India (GOI), India
Agriculture

Care for some Bt with brinjal?

THE APPROVAL of Bt Brinjal by the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) has exposed the unscientific basis on which genetically-engineered crops are being commercialised, and it raises questions about the entire bio-safety process.

Publication Date: 
10/02/2010
Vandana Shiva
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Agricultural Research, Vegetables, GM Crops, GMOs, Bt Brinjal

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