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Corporate control - primalseeds
Hybrid seeds and their required fertilisers, pesticides and irrigation systems have trapped many of ... cropping, small farms practising alternatives to chemical agriculture can produce greater yields. Sources "Colonising the Seed" by Gyorgy Scrinis http://www.netspeed.com.au/cogs/gen3.htm "The Gene Giants: Update ...
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According to Fowler and Mooney (1990), Agricultural diversity cannot be saved without saving the farm community. Conversely, communities must save their agricultural diversity in order to retain their ...
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hybrid vs open pollinated seeds
Farmers were persuaded to buy new hybrid seed each season, replacing the traditional practice of farm-saved seed, due to the "hybrid vigour" which can improve yields. Hybrid seed is also known as "high response" seed. These seeds require fertilisers, herbicides, pesticides and lots of water to achieve their high yields. ...
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GRAIN | Publications | All GRAIN's publications
'UPOV (16 February 2007 - GRAIN Briefing) The end of farm-saved seed? Industry's wish list for the next revision of UPOV (16 February 2007 - GRAIN ... 2006) Seedling - Brand Name Bullies & Arts Under Pressure (January 2006) Seedling - Sowing Autonomy - Gender and seed politics in semi-arid India (January 2006) Technologie Terminator : le retour des Semences-suicide ! (December ...
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CL 121/5
Promote or support, as appropriate, farmers and local communities efforts to manage and conserve on-farm their plant genetic resources for food and agriculture; (d) Promote in situ conservation of wild ... interpreted to limit any rights that farmers have to save, use, exchange and sell farm-saved seed/propagating material, subject to national law and as appropriate. PART IV - THE MULTILATERAL SYSTEM ...
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GeneWatch UK - Terminator technology - Sterile seed to prevent farmers using saved seed
Terminator technology Terminator technology Terminator technology is primarily intended to prevent seed being resown and to force farmers to purchase seed each year. As such it clearly has social and economic implications for the millions of poor farmers in developing countries who rely on farm-saved seed for survival. This is one of the most contested applications of GM to crops. Because ...
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IELRC.ORG - The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
An important consequence of the Treaty is that guidance concerning the management of CGIAR ... that the negotiators had to provide between the interests of developed and developing countries, big private seed companies and small farmers and a number of other actors in between. Endnotes Res. 4/ ...
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International News on Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - 1998/09/01
American Home "Monster" Terminator Technology is the Verminator, a new chemically activated seed killer. The Verminator kills seeds - in one of the invention's claims - by switching on ... and Agriculture Organization (FAO, Rome) estimate that 1.4 billion poor people depend on farm-saved seed for their food security. The farmers involved often grow their food under unfavourable conditions ...
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Say No To GMOs! - April 2004a
Bayard Littlefield, coordinator of the Vermont Genetic Engineering Action Network. on this page VT Approves Seed Labeling Bill EU Enforces Strict Labeling Brazil Labels GM Food Venezuela Prohibits GMOs Confronting Contamination ... crops from seeds purchased from the company, leaving no room for seed saving or exchange. Farmers growing farm-saved seed will have to sell their crops outside of the non-GM ...
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Say No To GMOs! - 2007 Updates
Slow to Gain Global Acceptance Debate Rages Over Genetically Modified Crops The End of Farm-saved Seed? Industry's Wish List for the Next Revision of UPOV Mystery Fungus Hits Bt ... Key Monsanto Patent Rejected Federal Judge Orders First-Ever Moratorium On Sale Of Genetically Altered Seed Judge Mulls Making Alfalfa Ban Permanent Judge Prohibits Planting of Genetically Engineered Alfalfa Federal Judge ...
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