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GRAIN | Growing Resistance
... agriculture. Freedom from IPR features some successes of circumventing monopoly control as well as looks at the potentialities of a cross-sectoral movement to challenge the concept, legitimacy and regime of intellectual property rights. Growing Resistance Asserting autonomy & sovereignty Confronting GM agriculture Freedom from IPR Feedback Copy and distribute Privacy About GRAIN RSS feeds
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GRAIN | Growing Resistance | Asserting autonomy & sovereignty
GRAIN | Growing Resistance | Asserting autonomy & sovereignty 100% width Low graphics Share RSS Sitemap Search What's new? Publications Resources Subscribe 中文 Français Español Home > Growing Resistance > Asserting autonomy & sovereignty Print Asserting autonomy & sovereignty To take food production from the hands of farmers and give it to a few corporations is more than an act of betrayal; it is ...
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The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
These drought-related problems are likely to increase under projected climate change. Vulnerabilities and control measures will affect the impact, however. The growing resistance of insects to insecticides and of microorganisms to antimicrobials, as well as the toxicity of pesticides to helpful (predator) insects and larger animals (including humans), ...
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Environmental Commons: State Regulation of GMOs in 2007
From late 2004-2006, nearly twenty state legislatures attempted to subdue the growing resistance to genetically modified organisms. In the wake of four California counties and numerous New ... hearing on the preemption bills erupted into an emotional discourse on the specific impacts of growing GMOs and the toll which this mode of farming exacts on the environment and public ...
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GAIA
"Japanese government should follow Kamikatsu's lead instead of building more burners and exporting them to its neighboring countries in Asia. In Southeast Asia, there is already growing resistance to these Japanese dirty technology transfer schemes which are often masquerading as aid packages." For his work in helping ban waste incineration in Philippines, Hernandez was awarded the ...
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Do or Die - Voices from the Ecological Resistance - Issue 6
Life on the Battle Star (p. 82)A personal account of the eviction of the Manchester Airport Battle Star Galactica.Other Islands Reports "from our own correspondents" around the globe. Wilderness & Resistance (p. 87)Blockades & burning bridges in the struggle to protect temperate rainforest and national sovereignty in Canada.Cascadia Rises! (p. 93)Free State in the Forest: forest defence creates an ...
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Our Stolen Future: Effects on disease resistance
Basics Synopsis & excerpts The bottom line Key points The big challenge Chemicals implicated The controversy Recommendations New Science Broad trends Basic mechanisms Brain & behavior Disease resistance Human impacts Low dose effects Mixtures and synergy Ubiquity of exposure Natural vs. synthetic New exposures Reproduction Wildlife impacts Recent Important Results Consensus News/Opinion Myths vs. ...
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GeneWatch UK - Worldwide Commercial Growing - Where GM crops are grown around the world
Press Releases Online orders You are in GM Crops and Food → Introductory Guide → Worldwide Commercial Growing Worldwide Commercial Growing During 2005, 21 countries grew GM crops commercially on 90 million hectares, an ... and maize which is known as gene 'stacking'. Herbicide tolerance made up 71%; Bt insect resistance, 18%; and the two traits 'stacked', 11% of the area of GM crops grown. Soybeans ( ...
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Tolerance and Resistance: Factors Affecting Response to Drugs: Merck Manual Home Edition
Similarly, cancer cells may develop resistance to chemotherapy drugs. Resistance appears because of the mutations that take place spontaneously in any group of growing cells, whether exposed to drugs or ... that are affected by drugs, decreasing the drug's ability to work (that is, causing resistance). Because such mutations are very rare, there are normally only a few such resistant cells ...
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(9/29/97) Growing Euro Blockade of U.S. Genetic Engineered Food
Euro Blockade of U.S. Genetic Engineered Food Growing Euro Blockade of U.S. Genetic Engineered Food by Niccolo Sarno BACKGROUND and related article in this topic (IPS) BRUSSELS -- A trio ... environment" -- acknowledging only that a gene contained in some genetically modified crops might develop a resistance in insects "that could cause problems afterwards." Austria says it will fight the ruling in ...
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