IPS Inter Press Service - Genetically ModifiedIPS, civil society's leading news agency, is an independent voice from the South and for development, delving into globalisation for the stories underneath.Q&A: 'Need For a New Social Alliance'- (Found June 19, 2008 ) FLORENCE, Jun 3 (IPS) - A global alliance of human rights activists, environmentalists and ethically run small enterprises is needed to save the planet from self-destruction, says Susan George, chair of the Planning Board of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. The institute works "to contribute to social justice."http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42632 ICELAND: Resistance Rises Against GM Imports- (Found June 19, 2008 ) REYKJAVIK, Jan 23 (IPS) - Icelanders are beginning to protest more forcefully against import of genetically modified food, leading the government to tighten regulations.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40882 Q&A: "It Is Upon Us to Pave the Way for Sustainability"- (Found June 19, 2008 ) NEW YORK, Jan 24 (IPS) - Anuradha Mittal is an internationally renowned expert on trade, development, human rights and agriculture. In 2004, she founded the Oakland Institute, a policy think tank focused on social, economic and environmental issues.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40911 SCIENCE-US: Top Scientists Want Research Free From Politics- (Found June 19, 2008 ) BOSTON, Feb 14 (IPS) - Leading U.S. scientists called on Congress Thursday to make sure the next president does not do what they say the George W. Bush Administration has done: censor, suppress and falsify important environmental and health research.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41205 BRAZIL: GM Maize Worst Tragedy of Lula Administration - NGOs- (Found June 19, 2008 ) RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 16 (IPS) - Non-governmental organisations actively involved in the Campaign for a GM-Free Brazil are protesting against what they call "the worst tragedy" to befall the country during the government of President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva: the release for cultivation and sale of two transgenic varieties of maize.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41228 Q&A: &39&39Plan by TNCs to Control Seeds Bound to Fail&39&39- (Found June 19, 2008 ) NEW DELHI, Mar 3 (IPS) - An attempt by a handful of developed countries and trans-national corporations (TNCs) to monopolise and control the world&39s seeds is doomed to failure, says Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, director-general of Ethiopia&39s Environment Protection Agency, and a formidable negotiator at biodiversity-related fora.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41435 PARAGUAY: Fighting for Survival in a Green Desert Wonderland- (Found June 19, 2008 ) REPATRIACION, Paraguay, Mar 11 (IPS) - "The first red stains on Nicanors white shirt" reads the inscription on a memorial niche at the side of the road to Ypecu, 230 kilometres from Asuncin, where peasant farmers are fighting for their land and against the diseases caused by agrochemicals used on nearby soybean plantations.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41544 MEXICO: New Rules Pave the Way for Transgenic Crops- (Found June 19, 2008 ) MEXICO CITY, Mar 20 (IPS) - After a three-year-long process, Mexico is about to clear the way for legal cultivation of transgenic crops, in spite of resistance from environmentalists and several small farmer associations.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41677 Q&A: "Transgenic Seed Companies Lie and Bribe"- (Found June 19, 2008 ) MEXICO CITY, Apr 24 (Tierramrica) - Biotech corporations that developed genetically modified seeds are bribing authorities and carrying out costly advertising campaigns "plagued with lies in order to create monsters that attack life," says Jess Len Santos, an indigenous man who is one of this year's winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42116 EUROPE: Warnings Against Biofuels Get Louder- (Found June 19, 2008 ) BRUSSELS, May 6 (IPS) - European efforts to promote biofuels should be rethought because of the contribution they have made to rising food prices, according to Jeffrey Sachs, a top economic advisor to the United Nations.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42247 |