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Public wants labelling of all GM food
Ecologist
26th November, 2009
UK citizens are confused by the current publicly available information on GM foods and want clearer facts made available in shops and supermarkets more...GM crops causing a rise in pesticide use in US
Ecologist
17th November, 2009
Early falls in pesticide use on GM crops in the United States have been replaced by rapid increases according to study more...Million Belay: Ethiopia doesn’t need or want Bill Gates
Tom Levitt
16th November, 2009
Ecological campaigner Million Belay talks about why protecting Ethiopia's biodiversity is so important and why he opposes the intervention of philanthropists like Bill Gates more...Lester Brown: 'We shouldn't count on Copenhagen to save us'
Matilda Lee
10th November, 2009
Lester Brown, founder of the Earth Policy Institute and the WorldWatch Institute, on his fears for Copenhagen, genetically modified food and the failure of the media more...FSA fails to alert public to banned GM ingredient
Ecologist
November 6th, 2009
Campaign group finds traces of unauthorised GM linseed in loaf of Marks & Spencer bread and calls on Government food watchdog to issue public alert more...Call for publicly funded research into GM crops
Ecologist
20th October, 2009
Technologies to increase agricultural productivity will allow the UK to help feed the world, says Royal Society report more...GM-free Europe: how we could still ban GMOs
Tom Levitt
21st October, 2009
Re-nationalising decisions on growing GM crops would allow EU countries to declare themselves GM-free, but could bring new dangers more...How the Government could easily fix our food chain
Kirtana Chandrasekaran
13th October, 2009
Our growing demand for cheap feed to produce cheap meat is exacting a terrible human and environmental price. But the solutions are clear, and are within our reach more...Public needs to be 'educated' into accepting GM
Ecologist
23rd September, 2009
Companies should counter organic groups' criticisms of food technologies to convince consumers to accept biotechnology and irradiation, says US study more...GM lobby just as militant as opposition
Ecologist
4th September, 2009
Attacks from scientists may be putting off further research into GM crops more...MPs call for an end to GM crop protests
Ecologist
22nd July, 2009
MP's report leaves environmentalists facing a dilemma, should they allow GM crop trials or not? more...Bayer clamps down on GM rice protest in India
Ecologist
13th July, 2009
Campaigners in India are facing charges including trespassing and criminal intimidation following a protest last month against genetically modified rice being trialled by Bayer BioScience more...
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Wales consults on tighter GM contamination laws
Ecologist
7th July, 2009
A consultation by the Welsh Assembly Government proposes more stringent measures to protect Wales's farmers from the threat of cross-contamination by GM crops more...Monsanto's philanthropy
Kamalakar Duvvuru of Dissident Voice
26th June, 2009
How do you get your GM crops and herbicides into countries that don't want and can't afford them? Simple - you just wait for a crisis, and offer a helping hand... more...Food and Farming
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
Food and farming is in crisis but there is hope for the future - from organics and Slow Food to permaculture and land share schemes more...US Department of Agriculture worried about GM food imports
News
6th March, 2009
Having exported largely untested GM crops around the world for decades, the US is suddenly starting to worry about what genetically modified organisms other countries might send their way. more...Cause For Concern
Jeffrey M Smith
17th February, 2009
The European Commission has just cleared Monsanto's GM maize for use in the EU. Yet, as Jeffrey M Smith reveals, proper analysis of tests done to gain that approval suggest it should never have been given more...Ethiopia. Basket Case or Organic Horn of Plenty?
Robin Maynard
15th February, 2009
Ravaged for decades by famine and war, Ethiopia is trying to eliminate hunger for good with organic farming. Robin Maynard met the man spearheading the campaign more...New Mexico's traditional chilies are threatened by GMO seeds
Ecologist
22nd January, 2009
New Mexico’s chilli farmers are under threat. The film 'Red, green of GE?' hears from those concerned about the potentially devastating effects GMO crops would have on the New Mexico chilli. more...Behind the label: Soya
Pat Thomas
6th January, 2009
Marketed as a superfood with almost magical properties, soya protein is found in almost everything we eat. It’s a shame its health claims aren’t worth a bean, says Pat Thomas more...Jimmy's GM Food Fix
Jonathan Matthews
27th November, 2008
Last year celebrity pig farmer Jimmy Doherty kept 1000 organically reared pigs, while this year apparently he's raised barely 200. But if Jimmy’s farm is on the skids, the same cannot be said of his career as a media celeb. more...Are our hands tied?
Clare Oxborrow; Becky Price; Peter Riley
1st November, 2008
Whether we like it or not, the Government says that we must accept the necessity of genetically modified crops to fuel, feed and heal the world. Leading academics, researchers and campaigners in the GM arena address the science and the spin of the GM 'solution', as well as looking at alternatives that are already contributing to a sustainable farming future. more...Feed the world?
Dr Ricarda A Steinbrecher and Antje Lorch
1st November, 2008
The promise of more food from increased yields is driving the appeal for more GM crops, but that promise is theoretical and unfulfilled, argue Dr Ricarda A Steinbrecher and Antje Lorch more...Desert grain
Prof Jack Heinemann
1st November, 2008
Can food crops really be engineered to thrive - and to yield more - under drought conditions? After 25 years we're still waiting for the flood of evidence, says Prof Jack Heinemann more...The driving use of genetic engineering
Geoff Tansey
1st November, 2008
As biotech companies hoover up patents, Geoff Tansey considers what we could end up paying for our future food supply more...