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Section: Global Agreements and Fora Date: Aug 09, 2010  Access and Benefit-sharing Protocol Negotiations Resume in September The Convention on Biological Diversity will discuss the issue of biopiracy and equitable benefit sharing when it resumes for another meeting on 18-21 September in Montreal. » Read more ...   Section: Sustainable Systems Date: Aug 04, 2010  Ecological farming: Drought-Resistant Agriculture This Greenpeace report examines strategies to withstand drought in agriculture using ecological farming based on biodiversity. » Read more ...   Section: Policy and Regulation Date: Jul 28, 2010  Scientific Opinion in Support of Hungary's Moratorium on GM Potato An opinion of Hungarian scientific experts in support of the Hungarian moratorium on GM Amflora potato. » Read more ...   Section: Policy and Regulation Date: Jul 22, 2010  GM In the Dock: US Courts Step In Where Safety Regulators Fail A series of briefings examining a number of US court cases on the legality of the authorisation of GM crops, while exposing how regulators have disregard the law and the precautionary principle. » Read more ...   Section: Global Agreements and Fora Date: Jul 14, 2010  Benefit Sharing Protocol Text Negotiations Finally Start Governments that are Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity finally started to negotiate the text of a draft protocol on access and benefit sharing on 10 July 2010. » Read more ...   Section: Trends in Industry Date: Jul 06, 2010  Herbicide Resistant Plants Trigger 'Arms Race' Among Chemical Companies Chemical companies are racing to develop new GM crops or to use old herbicides to attack weeds that are increasingly immune to herbicides. » Read more ...   Section: Sustainable Systems Date: Jun 30, 2010  Organic Farming Gives Indian Farmers Greater Financial Security This report finds that organic cotton farming that include practicing crop diversity can be more profitable than merely growing GM cotton. » Read more ...   Section: Global Agreements and Fora Date: Jun 27, 2010  Treaty on Liability for GMO Damage Closer to Completion A TWN report on the outcomes of the meeting of the Friends of the Co-Chairs on Liability and Redress in the Context of the Bioafety Protocol in Kuala Lumpur in June 2010. » Read more ...   Section: Global Agreements and Fora Date: Jun 15, 2010  Imminent Threat of Damage from GMOs A TWN briefing on the concept of imminent threat of damage, an issue under negotiations on Liability and Redress in the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. » Read more ...

»  Genetic Engineering and Omitted Health Research »  Safety Considerations for Genetically Engineered Rice »  The Genetic Engineering of Smallpox »  Impact of Glyphosate Resistant Palmer Pigweed on US Agriculture »  Why Biotech Patents Are Patently Absurd - Scientific Briefing on TRIPs and Related Issues »  Capacity Building and the Biosafety Protocol: A TWN report »  Model Law for Safety in Biotechnology for Africa »  Post-Market Oversight of Biotech Foods: Is the System Prepared? »  Biotechnology and Indigenous People   Vertical (Trans)gene Flow: Implications for Crop Diversity and Wild Relatives     1) Holistic Foundations for Assessment and Regulation of Genetic Engineering and Genetically Modified Organisms, Tromso, Norway Date: August 01, 2010 to August 13, 2010 Venue: Tromso, Norway     2) Symposium: Advancing the Understanding of Biosafety Date: October 07, 2010 to October 09, 2010 Venue: Nagoya, Japan     1) Campaign To Stop Smallpox Genetic Engineering Date: May 05, 2010

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