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Industrial Polluting Agriculture - The Problem

How harmful is Genetic Engineering? Is relying on toxic chemicals the only way forward? Can 'business as usual' in agriculture provide food for the future? Greenpeace is working on all this and more. Join us.

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30 August 2002 Genetic Engineering won’t solve world hunger.

Agriculture is responsible for 14 percent of the total global greenhouse gas emissions. Ecological farming can help reduce these emissions, and help farmers cope with climate change.
Genetic Engineering makes us dependent on toxic chemicals and corporate control of agriculture. It poses unknown risks to our environment - and ourselves.
Groundwater contamination, fewer places to fish and more pests resistant to pesticides: These are just some of the problems arising from industrial polluting agriculture's addiction to toxic chemicals.
Ecological farming can produce 30 percent more food per hectare. Ecological farming gives people access to food where it is needed most.

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Greenpeace and Golden Rice

Background | March 1, 2013 at 15:00

The so-called 'Golden' rice marketed by the biotech industry is a rice variety genetically engineered (GE) to produce pro-vitamin A. Its proponents say this GE rice could solve the problems of Vitamin A deficiency (which can lead to blindness) in...

Agriculture reports

Background | February 12, 2013 at 11:24

You can find here all reports related to our Agriculture campaign.

May 08 - Deeper Solutions

Background | February 27, 2009 at 14:43

Since the late Pleistocene, 100,000 years ago, when a few thousand Homo sapiens poked around Africa, Asia, and the Mediterranean, human population has doubled 22 times. We have one more such doubling left, and that's it. Human population will...

Labelling - the right to know

Background | October 1, 2004 at 13:54

When consumers began to realise they were eating genetically engineered (GE) food without their knowledge or consent, there were immediate calls for mandatory segregation and labelling. Surveys have found that most people want to know if their...

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