Counting the Costs of Genetic Engineering

After finishing a half day harsh farm work, a Hani rice farmer is eating his rice from a tradtional bamboo rice bowl, Yunnan Province, China.

Mezo Jozsef is a tractor driver at Hortobagyi Gemmegorzo non-profit Ltd. The farm is an organic farm in the buffer zone of the Hortobagyi national park which preserves the genes of traditional Hungarian animals. They also produce food for human...

Agriculture at a Crossroads: food for survival Greenpeace International November 2009

Greenpeace activists protest against GMO's in front of EU-parliament, during a meeting on GMO's

Greenpeace and Bharatiya Kisan Farmers Union unfurl a giant banner in a rice field 25 km from Lucknow, sending out a clear message to the authorities from Mahura kalan, against any genetically engineered rice field trials in the region. The...

Greenpeace activists paint a field of illegally grownGMO maize (Monsanto MON810), in order to expose itslocation. The GMO maize is being illegally grown, aseither the farmer, or the French government have notdeclared it. Greenpeace is calling on...

Greenpeace activists put Braila Island, on the Danube,under quarantine, after Greenpeace fieldinvestigations revealed that illegal GeneticallyModified (GMO) Soya is being grown and harvestedthere. Thirty Greenpeace activists from across Europeset...

Greenpeace hands EU Commissioner Vassiliou a petition with 180.000 signatures. Farmers from Spain, Sweden andThailand are at the EU today to meet European Commissioner for health, Androulla Vassiliou, and joining Greenpeacein handing over a...