Monthly Archives: September 2016

Genetically modified (GM) mosquito company Oxitec has admitted a major risk of its technology – reducing one mosquito species may increase the numbers...

The European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) is set to release the raw data used in the recent EU safety evaluation of glyphosate to MEPs, as part of its commitment...

Portuguese farmers are turning their backs on Monsanto’s genetically modified MON810, which is the only GM crop commercially grown in the European...

In July 2016 the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed a law to ban the cultivation and breeding of genetically modified plants and...

Taking a break from the busy harvest season, 67 New York State organic farmers sent a letter Thursday to Dean Boor of the Cornell College of Agriculture...

The Union of Latin American Scientists Committed to Society and Nature (UCCSN-AL) has rejected Tuesday the recent letter signed by several Nobel Prize...

According to new research from University of Virginia in the U.S., widespread adoption of genetically modified (GM) crops has decreased the use of insecticides,...

The colossus which will arise from the $66 Billion merger announced Wednesday between pharmaceutical giant Bayer and agro-chemical and seeds giant Monsanto...

EU and US consumers have voiced their support for the regulation and labeling of products derived from new genetic modification techniques, in a resolution...

A newly published peer-reviewed study from Brazil has found that even legal levels of glyphosate-based herbicides have an impact on a common freshwater...