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Farmers at losing end of GE industry

Feature story | September 17, 2002 at 0:00

Farmers, consumers, even people in developing countries are under intense pressure to accept genetic engineering as an improvement on nature. But a new report documenting 10 years of experience by North American farmers shows that virtually every...

Global Status of Genetically Engineered Crops

Publication | January 18, 2007 at 7:15

2006 – a year of rejection by consumers, farmers, and governments around the world.

Fences don't stop contamination, but they do stop consultation

Feature story | October 22, 2002 at 0:00

Jim Thomas woke up to another sleepy day in Brussels, but the police were up long before. The day’s mission – protecting the powerful GE seed industry from protestors while they plot the contamination of the European food supply. Jim tells the...

Agriculture at a Crossroads: Food for Survival

Publication | November 11, 2009 at 0:00

Climate change, hunger and poverty, loss of biodiversity, forest destruction, water crises, food safety – what all these threats have in common is that a principal cause for each of them is in the way we produce, trade, consume and discard food...

Bayer's costly GE rice scandal

Feature story | November 6, 2007 at 0:00

When an unapproved genetically engineered (GE) crop was discovered in American rice last year, it triggered the biggest marketing and financial disaster in the history of the US rice industry. We commissioned an independent economist to do some...

Benefits of Diversity in Rice Farming

Publication | January 26, 2010 at 0:00

Sustainable agriculture that embraces diversity over monoculture, as demonstrated by traditional forms of Chinese rice farming, has multiple benefits including greater yields, pest and weed control, disease resistance, increased nitrogen...

Greenpeace Crop Circle: 'X' marks the spot in French GE maize field

Press release | July 27, 2006 at 13:00

Early this morning a group of Greenpeace activists entered a GE maize field in Grezet Cavagnan, Southern France and carved a giant "crop circle" with an "X" in the GE maize, marking the field as a contamination zone. The action was in response to...

Kadia, this is for you…

Blog entry by Kumi Naidoo | March 8, 2012 2 comments

“My rice crops dried.. as if they were burnt with fire… I did not harvest rice the year before too… Last year the rain started well, but it suddenly stopped… Some days we can not find food for our children ...” these plaintive words...

Brazil: launched a Genetic Engineering free soya program

Blog entry by Iran Magno , campaigner Greenpeace Brazil | November 17, 2010

Great news for soya farmers in Brazil! These producers, which have been complaining of the limited availability of conventional seeds in the brazilian market, are now  counting on government help to solve the problem through  the...

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