Our partners at ARCHE NOAH and No Patents on Seeds! have informed us of a new patent on tomato seeds held by a Dutch company. Here we share their press release.
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Inf’OGM Podcast on GMOs and Biotech
Inf’OGM has recently began a podcast series on GMOs and biotech. Here we share the link to the first episodes. Enjoy!
New Genomic Techniques in Africa threaten food sovereingty
The African Centre for Biodiversity’s latest briefing tracks these policy shifts and examines the influence of public-private partnerships, multinational agribusinesses, and well-funded communication campaigns that shape both public opinion and policymaking.
CGRFA-20: Session Outcomes
We share a summary of the outcomes from the 20th Regular Session of the FAO’s Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
Norwegian Parliament changes to GMO laws seen as positive
Last month, the Norwegian Parliament adopted a series of changes to its Gene Technology Act that reinforce consumers’ right GMO-free options and the requirement of traceability and risk assessment on a case-by-case basis.
Réseau Semences Paysannes write to MEPs to oppose New Genomic Techniques
Réseau Semences Paysannes has written to Members of the European Parliament to denounce the EU Council’s proposal to distinguish and deregulate certain plants derived from new genomic techniques (NGT). This proposal is a threat to environmental health and safety, as well as to farmers’ activities, and is in opposition to an agro-ecological transition to more sustainable food systems.
EU plant breeders up against patents by the multinationals
More and more plant breeding material in the EU is getting patented by multinationals giants, a development that poses costs and hurdles for those small breeders that are working to maintain agrobiodiversity, a means of resilience in the face of climate change.
Opinion: patents and GMOs in organic production
This piece describes how regulation shaped plant breeding markets and how genetic techniques may or may not fit in with organic breeding
Via Campesina stands behind ANSES’ analysis of new GMOs proposal
ECVC calls on the European Parliament and the European Council to suspend their examination of the GMO-NTG deregulation proposal in its current form, which has been found to rest on shaky scientific grounding
Is the EU Commission NGTs deregulation proposal science based?
At the end of last year, the French Agency for Food Safety, Environment and Labour Protection (ANSES) published a statement on the EU Commission’s deregulation proposal for new genomic techniques expressing doubts on its scientific basis.
Read the ANSES opinion in English on their website.
