Agriculture

Food for thought

Meena Menon
Mumbai

While the Congress is silent in its manifesto on genetically modified crops, other parties have dealt with it in their own ways.

Publication Date: 
17/04/2009
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Seeds, GM Crops, GMOs
Agriculture

Test tube brinjal

India is on the verge of clearing its first genetically modified food crop, Bt brinjal, with several others in the pipeline. Does India need GM crops? Are they safe? How much does the consumer know?

Publication Date: 
15/04/2009
Savvy Soumya Misra, Kirtiman Awasthi
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Agriculture, Chemical Fertilisers, Pest Control, Vegetables, GM Crops, Health Effects, Pesticides And Toxins, Toxicity Studies, Food Safety, GMOs, Genetic Engineering, High Court, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), India
Agriculture

Bt brinjal may be released commercially by year-end

Bt brinjal, the country

Publication Date: 
15/04/2009
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, GM Crops, Food Safety, GMOs
Agriculture

Crops: Indias Grand Mistakes

Suman Sahai

Publication Date: 
15/04/2009
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Agricultural Research, GM Crops, GMOs, India
Agriculture

 Test tube brinjal

Savvy Soumya Misra And Kirtiman Awasthi India is on the verge of clearing its first genetically modified food crop, Bt brinjal, with several others in the pipeline. Does India need GM crops? Are they safe? How much does the consumer know? On January 14, a meeting happened in room 23 on the sixth floor of the Union environment ministry building in Delhi. On the ministry

Publication Date: 
14/04/2009
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Agriculture, Chemical Fertilisers, Pest Control, Vegetables, GM Crops, Health Effects, Toxicity Studies, Food Safety, GMOs, Genetic Engineering, High Court, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), India
Agriculture

 Biosafety v global trade

US pitched against EU The US government has backed biotech companies, while European countries have reservations about transgenic crops

Publication Date: 
14/04/2009
Down to Earth
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22
Tags:
Agriculture, GM Crops, Trade, WTO, Food Safety, GMOs, Imports, Biotechnology, United States Of America (US), European Union (EU)
Biodiversity

Weakening biosafety laws

K P Prabhakaran Nair

Publication Date: 
12/03/2009
New Indian Express (Chennai)
Tags:
Biosafety, GMOs
Agriculture

 GMOs will not feed the world

Jeffrey M Smith has written about 65 scientists who have conducted tests on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in his book Genetic Roulette. He talks about the impact and hazards of Bt gene. He spoke to Savvy Soumya Misra at the launch of his book in Delhi recently Safety: Lab tests on mice showed allergies, disruption in reproductive cycle, hormonal imbalance, respiratory

Publication Date: 
27/02/2009
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, Food Supply, GM Crops, GMOs, Scientists, Food Security
Agriculture

Biosafety decisions and perceived commercial risks: the role of GM-free private standards

This study investigates the observed discrepancy between real and perceived commercial risks associated with the use of genetically modified (GM) products in developing countries.

It focus particularly on the effects of GM-free private standards set up by food companies in Europe and other countries on biotechnology and biosafety policy decisions in food-exporting developing countries.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2009
Debdatta Sengupta, Guillaume Grure
International Food Policy Research Institute
Tags:
Agriculture, Food Standards, Food Aid, GM Crops, Trade, Biosafety, GMOs, Biotechnology, Developing Countries
Agriculture

The campaign for genetically modified rice is at the crossroads

The idea for the Golden Rice project arose during an international conference in the Philippines in 1984. (Enserink 2008.) In 1999, an initial success was presented to the

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
Christoph Then
Foodwatch
Tags:
Rice, Nutrition, Health Effects, GMOs, GM Rice

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