Hawaii Crop Improvement Association’s “Seeds of Promise”: Safety and Worldwide Acceptance

Biotech crops are among the most extensively tested and well-regulated food, feed and fiber products ever developed. In this last chapter of HCIA’s video, we emphasize that all commercial biotech crops are thoroughly assessed for human and animal health, as well as environmental safety. Without the proper evaluations and regulations in place, farmers would be not be permitted to grow and sell these products. What’s more, bioengineered crops–and the food and feed produced from them–have been found to be just as nutritious and safe as their conventionally grown counterparts.

Gene Giants: Climate saviors or profiteers?

More at therealnews.com Biotech companies seek hundreds of patents for genetically modified “climate-ready” seeds

Diffusion of agricultural biotechnology and intellectual property rights: emerging issues in India

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Agriculture in developing economies is rural based with a majority of poor people dependent on it. Hence, any new technology that would result in improving the crop yield or reducing the cost will be highly useful. Particularly, biotechnology innovations have several useful applications in agriculture and are useful for developing countries. However, when such new technologies are protected by intellectual property the implications are different. The plant protection system available in India enables the farmer to save, use, sow, resow, exchange, or share the seeds of protected variety, besides offering protection on farmers’ variety, extant variety and essentially derived variety. Such a system has scope for adoption of new technology as well as diffusion of the same. Whereas plant protection could boost research in the area of plant biotechnology by both public and private bodies, it could also result in higher prices for seeds, thus naturally excluding the small and marginal farmers from accessing such new technology.

Diffusion of agricultural biotechnology and intellectual property rights: emerging issues in India

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE – Supreme Court hears arguments on genetically modified seeds, local farmers offer their opinions

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE – Supreme Court hears arguments on genetically modified seeds, local farmers offer their opinions
From some local farmers’ viewpoint, genetically-modified (GMO) crops are beneficial to the environment, the producer and the public. An Idaho-based seed company has doubts about them and it’s doing battle with seed giant Monsanto Co. before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Deconstructing Supper (In the age of GMOs…)

WATCH FILM ON vimeo.com “??????????? ?? ??????”, ??? ????? ????????? ??? ?? ???? ??? Marianne Kaplan ??? ?? ???????????? ???????… In Greece’s schools, the new book of Biology includes a six-line note about GMOs. Basically the book reproduce all the given explanations of biotech companies who control genetically modified seeds that this is the only way to feed the world’s growing population.I upload this video as a part of my blog’s post about this situation. It is a 9 min. part of a great film about GMOs. The hole film is important but i had to make a choice! “Renowned chef John Bishop leads viewers on an eye-opening and engaging journey into the billion-dollar battle to control global food production. Starting with a gourmet meal in his five-star restaurant, Bishop travels the world — from farmer’s fields to biotech laboratories to supermarket aisles — on a personal quest to find out what our food choices are…”. Posted by physiodifis.blogspot.com More info: www.bullfrogfilms.com www.movingimages.ca www.vaneats.com

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