May 5 2009
Food Fight: the future of biotech farming
by David Lichtenstein, Agbios.comMay 4 2009
MON810 cultivation ban: consequences for research
Q & A with Professor Rudi Balling, GMO Safety
April 28 2009
Is the UK ready to rethink its stance on GM?
By Professor Rosie Hails, Planet Earth online
April 28 2009
Biotech Advances Could Help Achieve Sustainability Goals
By Lynn Welch, Truth About Trade & Technology
April 27 2009
Engineered maize's vitamin boost
By Mark Ward, BBC News
April 18 2009
Strange fruit: Could genetically modified foods offer a solution to
the world's food crisis?
by Paul Vallely, The Independent
April 9 2009
Potočnik: Europe must lead ‘green revolution’
Interview, EURActive.com
March 31 2009 -
Earth population 'exceeds limits'
By Steven Duke, BBC News
March 24 2009 -
Is the green movement part of the problem?
By Justin Rowlatt, BBC News
March 23 2009
Will GM food ever be on Europe's menu?
By David Byrne, Feedstuffs Issue 12, Volume 81
March 7 2009 -
The Record: Europe Genetically modified organisms are back
on the Brussels agenda
Producer Lucy Thomas, BBC News
March 6
2009
Genetically Modified Crops - U-turn ahead?
By Shannon Sherry, Financial Mail
March 2 2009 -
EU environment ministers vote to uphold ban on biotech crops
By James Kanter, The International Herald Tribune
February 3 2009 -
New effort to win EU acceptance for genetically modified crops
By James Kanter, The International Herald Tribune
February 2 2009 -
Prof.
Marc Van Montagu was honoured with India's most coveted 'the
Genome Valley Award' by Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Chief
Minister of Andhra Pradesh
Biotech Crops Making
Long-Lasting Impact on the lives of Resource-Poor Farmers in
Developing Countries
By
The Institute of Plant
Biotechnology for Developing Countries (IPBO)
January 3 2009 -
Biotech opponents are playing with human lives (interview with
the
geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard)
By
Till Behrend, the German weekly
Focus
November
24 2008 -
Can GM save the world?
By
Jimmy Doherty, BBC News
November
5 2008 -
Indian farmer suicides not GM related, says study
By
James Randerson, The Guardian
September 15 2008 -
New trends in plant biology and biotechnology
By
Colloque international de l'Académie des
Sciences
September
11 2008 -
GM Study Adds to
Pressure on Brussels
By
Jenny Wiggins,
Financial Times
September 4 2008 -
Commission study finds no harm from GM food
By Jennifer Rankin, EuropeanVoice
August 29 2008 -
EuropaBio head slams constant biotech law reviews
By American Soybean Association
August 28 2008 -
Industry is held hostage by some member states
By Peter O'Donnell, EuropeanVoice
August 20 2008 -
Brazil's farms see quiet revolution
By Gary Duffy, BBC News
July 31 2008 -
EU rules risk creating soybean shortage --- Feed shortfall
looms as biotech standards
threaten imports
By Matthew Dalton The Wall Street Journal
Europe
July 28 2008 -
Feed
Additive Industry to Grow Despite Biofuel Boom & Food Crisis -
EuropaBio
By Rory Harrington,
Feedinfo News Service
July 23 2008 -
INTERVIEW:
Resistance to Biotech Threatens EU Feed and Livestock Industries -
EuropaBio
By Rory Harrington,
Feedinfo News Service
July 17 2008 -
Biofuels
reports off target says EuropaBio
By Giles Clark, Biofuel Review
July 11
2008 -
A time to sow? GM food could curb
the cost of staples
By Clive Cookson, Financial Times
July 3 2008 17:13 -
Ask the
experts: GM crops
FT.com
February 2008 -
Scientists cry foul as
Europe plays politics with GM crops
By John Hodgson, Nature Biotechnology
30 June 2008 -
Farmers praise GM crops
in EU study
Source:
Vanessa Mock,
The Independent
14th
April 2008 -
Barnier défend les
avancées de la loi sur
les OGM
Source: Le Figaro
14th April 2008
-
OGM : le fantasme de la
simplicité
Source: Les Echos
14th
April 2008
-
La
guerra dei cereali ora
il mundo ha fame
Source: Corriere
della sera
14th
April 2008
-
E
le piante tecnologiche
no sono più tabù
Source: Corriere della
sera
12th April 2008 -
Michel Setbon:"Le rejet
des OGM est risqué"
Source: Le Figaro
19th March, 2008 -
GM food wins backing
from Country Life
Source: The Daily
Telegraph
17th
March, 2008 -
Expensive
tastes: Rising costs
force food up the
political agenda
Source: Financial Times
14th March, 2008
-
Dueling visions for a
hungry world
Source:
Science
Magazine-American
Association for the
Advancement of Science
January 2008 -
A
Meta-Analysis of Effects
of Bt Crops on Honey
Bees
Citation: Duan JJ,
Marvier M, Huesing J,
Dively G, Huang ZY
(2008), PLoS ONE
October,
2007 -
Europe’s anti-GM stance
to presage animal feed
shortage?
Source:
Nature Biotechnology
19th July, 2007
- La surface ensemencée
en maïs OGM multipliée
par 4 en 2007
La surface ensemencée en
maïs OGM (organismes
génétiquement
multipliés) a été
multipliée par quatre en
France en 2007 par
rapport à 2006, a
indiqué jeudi le
directeur général de
l'association générale
des producteurs de maïs
(AGPM), Luc Esprit.
"A l'heure actuelle nous
avons recensés 21.200
hectares ensemencés en
maïs OGM en 2007 contre
seulement 5.420 hectares
en 2006", a précisé M.
Esprit au cours d'une
conférence de presse.
La culture commerciale
du maïs OGM ne
représente que 0,75% des
surfaces cultivées en
maïs en France, soit 2,9
millions d'hectares au
total. Sur ce total,
près de la moitié (soit
1,4 million d'hectares)
est destiné à
l'alimentation animale.
L'AGPM prévoit une
explosion de la culture
commerciale du maïs OGM
dans les prochaines
années, principalement
en raison de la demande
espagnole et des
attaques de plus en plus
fréquentes des insectes
ravageurs sur les
cultures traditionelles
de maïs, a expliqué M.
Esprit.
"Les agriculteurs
français sont très
intéressés. Un nouveau
quadruplement des
surfaces en 2008 n'est
pas à exclure", a ajouté
le président de l'AGPM
Christophe Terrain.
Source: AFP
This newsflash is
mirrored by the official
figures in the national
register that you can
see on
http://www.ogm.gouv.fr/mise_marche/registre_cultures/registre_cultures.htm
and
http://www.ogm.gouv.fr/mise_marche/registre_cultures/070710_REGISTRE_PUBLIC.xls
13th May,
2007
-
Assobiotec:
«No a geni animali in
alimenti»
Le industrie lo hanno
comunicano al ministero
delle Politiche agricole
e alimentari. De Castro:
«Grande soddisfazione»
Source: Corriere
della Sera
1st May,
2007 -
Bt
corn cleared in Colony
Collapse Disorder
Source: American Farm
30th
April, 2007
-
Futuragra si appella all
Ue contro il blocco OGM
in Italia
Source: Tecnica
Molitoria
29th
April , 2007 -
Spain solves the bee
death mystery
Source: ABC
22nd April,
2007 -
Spain loses 9.000 million
bees in only one year
Source:
EL PERIÓDICO DE
CATALUNYA
19th April, 2007 -
Respuesta a la petición
de crear zonas libres de
OMG
Juan Sánchez Brunete,
secretario general de
ASAJA: "Los
agricultores españoles
tienen derecho a elegir
las mejores variedades"
Source: Cultura
biotech
16th April , 2007 -
Explosion of the corn
GMO cultures envisaged
in 2007
This year France will
cultivate from 30.000 to
50.000 hectares of
genetically modified
corn (GMO) versus 5.000
hectares of the plants
in 2006, the general
manager of the
Association General of
the Corn Producers (AGPM),
Luc Esprit, observed on
Tuesday. Two years ago
it cultivated only 500
hectares, the person in
charge for them
stressed. In his eyes,
Tuesday's incorporation
into the national law,
after five years of
delay, of a European
directive on the tests
of GMO and their growth
as well as their
dissemination will
contribute to start
again this cultivation
in France. "It is very
positive. We will have
an important increase in
corn GMO area", he told
Reuters.
This first estimate of
the AGPM for the year
2007 is, according to
him, "a good fork". "It
is realistic". Corn
sowings begin in April.
Until now the
Association has been
reluctant to publish
estimates. The
identification of
transgenic corn areas
were not obligatory in
the absence of the
ratification of the
European directive. The
farmers thus carried out
their sowings in the
greatest secrecy for
fear of destruction of
their fields by the
antis.
This legal blur
contributed to a certain
opacity around the
cultivation in France.
That it has been raised
by the ratification of
the directive pleased
Luc Esprit. Corn is the
only commercial GMO in
France: "MY 810",
produced by the American
seed-producer Monsanto.
II resists the attacks
of certain devastating
insects and was
authorized in 1998 by a
Community decision.
Source: REUTERS
17th
April, 2007 -
Half of UK farmers
prepared to grow
genetically modified
forage crops
The survey of society
members found that 47
per cent would grow GM
crops, 37 per cent ‘were
not convinced but could
be persuaded’ and 16 per
cent were vehemently
against the idea.“We
were surprised that only
one-in-eight grassland
farmers responding said
they would never grow GM
forage crops,” said
Jessica Buss, society
director of the
society.“More than half
of these declared they
were organic producers,
and perhaps this
indicates why they would
be against such new
technology.”
Three-quarters of the
farmers said they would
only use GM varieties if
consumers accept the
technology.“So it is
obvious that more
positive messages about
GM crops would need to
be forthcoming for most
farmers to feel
comfortable about sowing
crops,” she said.
“Farmers’ priorities for
benefits of GM crops
they would favour also
proved different to the
expected order –
increased crop yield was
close to the bottom
rather than the top of
preferences.” Top of the
benefits favoured was
reduced disease,
followed closely by pest
resistance and better
nutritive value for
stock. The bottom two
rated benefits were
increased yields and the
ability to spray weeds
with less selective
products. Source:Checkbiotech
22nd
March, 2007 -
Are GM Crops Killing
Bees?
Source:Der Spiegel
21st
March, 2007 -
Basta veti sull OGM
Source:
24ore Agricoltura
24th November, 2006 -
Bt
Maize Compatible with
Bees
Source: GMO Safety
December 2008 -
Europe lags, US leads 2nd-generation biofuels (subscription
required)
By
Cormac Sheridan, Nature
Biotechnology
October
7 2008 -
U.N. Says Biofuel Subsidies Raise Food Bill and Hunger By
Elisabeth Rosenthal, The New York
Times
August 28 2008 -
Industry is held hostage by some member states
By Peter O'Donnell, EuropeanVoice
August 2008 -
The European
biofuels challenge:
Developments in
European Union
Policy and Industry
Drivers
By Urmila Doraswami,
Report Buyer
August 2008 -
GM Crops and Biofuels
By Jon Evans, Ethanol Producer Magazine
July 14 2008 -
Biotech
biofuels would not hit food says Vanhemelrijck
AgBiotech Reporter
June 6 2008 -
Biofuels driving global oil
supply grown
Merrill Lynch, Global Energy
Weekly; 06 June 2008
7 May
2009
Biotech funding isn’t
working
By Nuala Moran, Science
| Business
May 7
2009
Governments warned
against 'dragging feet'
on SME policy
EurActive.com
April 24
2009
The Bioeconomy to 2030
OECD report
This is one of the most
comprehensive
efforts in foresight
about the biotech
industry. It contains a
wealth of strategic
information of relevance
to biotech companes, and
will also be influential
among policy makers. We
expect it to become a
reference of choice for
anyone wanting to
position policy
proposals in our field.
The link above brings
you to the extended
abstract, and allows you
to order either a hard
copy or a pdf file of
the report itself.
April
7 2009
Survey: French SMEs want
more information on EU
EURActive.com
April 16 2009
Fixing health care
The Economist
April 9 2009
Fixing Healthcare: The Professional’s Perspective
Report by the Economist Intelligence Unit
Spring 2009 -
Encouraging the Innovators
By Healthcare
Council Chair Andrea Rappagliosi,
Public
Service Review: European Union Issue 17
August 28 2008 -
Industry is held hostage by some member states
By Peter O'Donnell, EuropeanVoice
July 15 2008 -
New
hope for bone marrow patients
BBC News
May 2008 -
Rare Diseases: Europe's
Challenges
Scrip (pg 17)
Spring 2008 -
Testing New Technology
By Healthcare
Council Chair Andrea Rappagliosi,
Public Service Review:
European Union Issue 15
EuropaBio
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