Category Archive for “CGIAR/Seeds”
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Monday, July 18th, 2011
Silvia Ribeiro* Mientras en el continente crecen las protestas contra las patentes y “derechos de obtentor” sobre las semillas, en México esto se promueve en las leyes estatales de “Fomento y protección del maíz criollo” que se aprobaron en Tlaxcala y Michoacán. Ahora una diputada del PAN, presentó una iniciativa copiada de éstas, para Oaxaca. [...]
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Posted by: Veronica
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Filed under: Biopiracy, Biotechnology, CGIAR/Seeds, Food Sovereignty, Sustainable Agriculture
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
Silvia Ribeiro* En 1998, el grupo ETC (entonces llamado RAFI) denunció la existencia de patentes sobre una tecnología que llamó Terminator. Se trata de una tecnología transgénica para hacer semillas suicidas: se plantan, dan fruto, pero la segunda generación se vuelve estéril, para obligar a los agricultores a volver a comprar semilla en cada estación. [...]
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Posted by: Veronica
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Filed under: Biopiracy, Biotechnology, CGIAR/Seeds, Corporate Concentration, Food Sovereignty, Terminator Technology/ New Enclosures
Saturday, January 29th, 2011
Silvia Ribeiro* Se cumplen 20 años de la realización de la Cumbre de la Tierra en Río de Janeiro, lo cual motivará una nueva conferencia (Río+20) que tendrá lugar en Brasil en mayo de 2012. Aunque lo principal debería ser revisar el estado de los problemas y el cumplimiento de compromisos, los temas ya definidos [...]
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Posted by: Veronica
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Filed under: Biotechnology, CGIAR/Seeds, Civil Society, Climate Change, Corporate Concentration, Food Sovereignty, Global Governance, Sustainable Agriculture
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 Biotecnologías agrícolas en los países en desarrollo (Guadalajara, México, 14 de marzo). Frente a las críticas que van en aumento, los funcionarios [...]
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Posted by: Karina
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Filed under: CGIAR/Seeds, Food Sovereignty, Sustainable Agriculture
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 maíz transgénico. Un delito histórico, que marca la decisión del gobierno de enajenar y colocar en alto riesgo el patrimonio genético [...]
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Posted by: Veronica
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Filed under: Biotechnology, CGIAR/Seeds, Civil Society, Corporate Concentration, Food Sovereignty, Sustainable Agriculture
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 [...]
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Posted by: Veronica
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Filed under: Biopiracy, Biotechnology, CGIAR/Seeds, Food Sovereignty
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 [...]
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Posted by: Charlie
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Filed under: Biopiracy, Biotechnology, CGIAR/Seeds, Civil Society, Corporate Concentration, Food Sovereignty
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!!
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Posted by: Jim
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Filed under: Biopiracy, CGIAR/Seeds, Intellectual Property/Patents
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 [...]
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Posted by: Jim
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Filed under: Biopiracy, CGIAR/Seeds, Corporate Concentration, Intellectual Property/Patents
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:
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Posted by: Jim
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Filed under: Biotechnology, CGIAR/Seeds, Corporate Concentration