Bt cotton ineffective against pest in parts of Gujarat, admits Monsanto

Priscilla Jebaraj
Share · Comment · print · T+

MEDIA RELEASE FROM THE AFRICAN CENTRE FOR BIOSAFETY

WATCHDOG REJECTS INDUSTRY’S HYPE OF GM SUCCESS IN SOUTH AFRICA

8 March 2010.

On the 9th March 2010 and at a press conference in Johannesburg South Africa, the industry-sponsored International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) will announce the “phenomenal success” of GM crops in South African based on a single minded obsession with numbers: that South African farmers are growing 1.8 million ha of GM maize, soya and cotton.

March 2010

The African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) has today released a new study
titled “The GM stacked gene revolution: a biosafety nightmare”
which reveals some startling current and future trends concerning the
advent of GM stacked varieties.

Stacked GMOs are those containing more than one gene genetically
engineered into a crop plant. A controversial stacked GMO, Smarstax
containing 8 such genetically engineered genes, was commercially
approved in the US, Canada, Japan and South Korea during 2009. Stacked
gene varieties are highly complex, posing new biosafety risks that

Food for Africa

By Andrew Tayton and Dulcie Krige

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100218/BUSINESS01/2180361/1001/NEWS/Seed-giants-plan-projects-to-aid-Africa

February 18, 2010
Seed giants plan projects to aid Africa - Des Moines Register

Pioneer Hi-Bred will follow archrival Monsanto Co. in offering biotech seeds to poor farmers in Africa.

JOY AS PELARGONIUM PATENT REVOKED

Munich 26 January 2010.
The Opposition Division of the European Patent Office (EPO) has today
revoked a patent granted to Dr. Willmar Schwabe (Schwabe) in its entirety.
The patent was opposed by the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) from
South Africa acting on behalf of a rural community in Alice, in the
Eastern Cape, in collaboration with the Swiss anti-biopiracy watchdog, the
Berne Declaration.

The patent was in respect of a method for producing extracts of
Pelargonium sidoides and Pelargonium reniforme to make Schwabe's