Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Silvia Ribeiro Es grave e irresponsable el intento de FAO de legitimar los transgénicos como solución al hambre y la crisis climática en el tercer mundo, cuya expresión más reciente es la conferencia BiotecnologÃas agrÃcolas en los paÃses en desarrollo (Guadalajara, México, 14 de marzo). Frente a las crÃticas que van en aumento, los funcionarios [...]
Sunday, March 15th, 2009
Silvia Ribeiro* El 6 de marzo, el gobierno mexicano anunció que consideraba terminado (en todos los sentidos de la palabra) el marco legal de bioseguridad en México, abriendo las puertas a la experimentación con maÃz transgénico. Un delito histórico, que marca la decisión del gobierno de enajenar y colocar en alto riesgo el patrimonio genético [...]
Sunday, February 15th, 2009
Silvia Ribeiro Una empresa semillera estadunidense presentó una solicitud para patentar las calabazas. ¿Suena a cuento? Lamentablemente, si la Oficina de Marcas y Patentes de Estados Unidos (USPTO) concede la patente US20080301830, la realidad habrá superado nuevamente a la ficción. La empresa Siegers Seed Company, con base en Michigan, Estados Unidos, pretende lograr el monopolio [...]
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Review by Hope Shand, research director of ETC Group. —– In October 1996, a spokesman for Monsanto told Farm Journal why his company was buying up seed companies left and right: “What you’re seeing is not just a consolidation of seed companies, it’s really a consolidation of the entire food chain.” Today, Monsanto is the [...]
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
In the midst of our new fight over geoengineering near the Galapagos, we’ve got good news over a very old fight with Monsanto… Hope Shand just phoned from Munich to say that the European Patent Office has agreed with ETC’s arguments and overturned Monsanto’s soybean “species” patent. There is no further appeal!!
Monday, April 30th, 2007
In a couple of days Hope Shand from ETC Group will be in court in the European patent Office to challenge Monsanto’s Patent on Soy beans – a patent that we have been contesting for 13 years and that originally Monsanto themselves opposed!! You can read more about that here. In the meantime, ETC Group [...]
Thursday, April 26th, 2007
The biotech industry claims that the global area devoted to GM crops in 2005 was 90 million hectares – or 222 million acres. ETC Group does not endorse or agree with the validity of annual statistics on GM crops compiled by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA).
We agree with civil society critics who charge that ISAAA’s statistics are inflated and unreliable. However, even using industry-generated statistics, the biotech countdown is revealing. Here are the “vital statistics”:
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
Two of us from ETC are in Granada, Spain following the Working Group on 8j – the CBD body that has the mandate to recognize and protect the traditional knowledge, innovation and practices of indigenous peoples. By the end of the week, the Working Group on 8(j) will make recommendations to COP8 (Curitiba, Brazil, March) on the social and economic impacts of Terminator. Here’s a brief round-up of government interventions (just the highlights) in yesterday’s working group.
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