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Tag Archives: vegetable variety
No seeds, no future
Biowatch South Africa shows us a film about agroecology and food sovereignty. ‘We accept maize seeds from the Department of Agriculture, but we don’t plant those GM seeds. We feed them to chickens.’
Posted in agriculture, food
Tagged Africa, agroecology, biotechnology, bird, chicken, corn, crop, crop variety, development, family farm, feed, food, food sovereignty, genetic modification, grain, livestock, local variety, maize, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, poultry, seed, seedbank, smallholder, subsistence, trade, tradition, vegetable, vegetable variety, vertebrate
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Open Source Seeds
Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
A group of researchers and plant breeders based at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on Thursday announced a new initiative intended to break the monopoly control over plant genetic materials promoted by the use…
Posted in agriculture, horticulture, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged America, brassica, breeding, broccoli, carrot, conservation, crop, crop diversity, development, Europe, farmer, food sovereignty, gardener, genetic diversity, kale, patent, plant_dicot, pseudocereal, quinoa, scientist, seed, seedbank, tradition, umbellifer, vegetable, vegetable variety
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Monsanto Admits: 1. We Don’t Need Genetic Engineering, 2. We Don’t Need Monsanto
Originally posted on Volatility:
> Recently Wired magazine ran a Monsanto infomercial touting its alleged change of strategic course on vegetables. Monsanto, through its subsidiaries Seminis and others, is selling a line of high-end conventional vegetables dolled up as some kind of high-tech breakthrough. Contrary…
Posted in agriculture, horticulture, human health, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged allergy, America, Asia, biofortification, biotechnology, brassica, breeding, broccoli, Bt crop, commodity crop, corn, cotton, crop, crop variety, DNA, drought, Europe, evolution, farmer, feed, fruit, fruit variety, genetic modification, germplasm, glucoraphanin, glyphosate, Golden Rice, grain, grocery, herbicide, herbicide resistance, history, human, insecticide, knowledge, label, lettuce, maize, marker assisted selection, melon, Monsanto, nitrogen, nutrition, onion, organic, pepper, pesticide, pesticide resistance, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, potato, research, rice, Roundup, Roundup Ready crop, salt, seed, selective breeding, Seminis, soya, tomato, trade, transport, vegetable, vegetable variety, watermelon, weed, wild vegetable
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What happens to European seeds now?
Originally posted on Passion in Food and Field:
Today (11th of March) the European Parliament voted for the rejection of the Commission proposal for a Regulation the production and marketing of Plant Reproductive Material. The Commission published the draft of…
Posted in agriculture, horticulture, money and trade
Tagged crop, crop diversity, crop variety, Europe, farmer, fruit, fruit variety, gardener, genetic diversity, grain, law, local variety, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, politics, rare variety, seed, trade, vegetable, vegetable variety
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Exposing the Lie: How Monsanto Does Not Represent Sustainable Agriculture
Originally posted on Paper to Use:
A web search for Monsanto brings up their homepage along with the phrase “A Sustainable Agriculture Company.” They have a heart-warming mission statement about “helping farmers” meet the needs of a growing population. There…
Seeds on seeds on seeds: Why more biodiversity means more food security
argylesock says… The United States is home to Monsanto, the biotechnology giant that develops and sells the world’s most popular genetically modified (GM, genetically engineered, GE) crops. I blog about GM often, including reviews of a series of articles by … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, food, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged biodiversity, biotechnology, climate, climate-ready crop, crop diversity, crop variety, food, food security, fruit variety, genetic diversity, genetic modification, local variety, Monsanto, rare variety, seed, trade, vegetable variety
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8 Reasons GMOs are Bad for You
Originally posted on Agriculture Information Bank:
Genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, are created when a gene from one species is transferred to another, creating something that would not be found in nature. A large percentage of domestic crops (up to…
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Tagged biotechnology, Bt crop, corn, crop, crop diversity, crop variety, feed, food, food safety, genetic modification, knowledge, lab animal, law, maize, maize MON863, maize NK603, mammal, Monsanto, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, potato, rat, research, rodent, Séralini_Gilles-Eric, soya, tumour, vegetable variety, vertebrate
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AFSA meets in Ethiopia to oppose GM products
Originally posted on ECO-opia:
The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) will next week meet in Ethiopia to discuss strategies for resistance against genetically modified (GM) seeds. AFSA is a Pan African platform comprising networks and farmer organisations…
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Tagged Africa, agroecology, biodiversity, biotechnology, crop variety, development, farmer, food sovereignty, fruit variety, genetic modification, Green Revolution, knowledge, local variety, pastoral, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, politics, seed, selective breeding, smallholder, vegetable variety
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Bangladesh Gets Bt Brinjal
Originally posted on Thought + Food:
It has been a recurring theme here at Thought+Food that the debates going on about the food system should not be overwhelmed by special interest groups. Instead, there must be room for the farmer to make…
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Tagged arthropod, Asia, aubergine, biotechnology, brinjal, Bt crop, Bt toxin, development, eggplant, evolution, farm, farmer, garden, gardener, genetic modification, insect, insecticide, larva, law, lepidopteran, Monsanto, pest, pesticide, pesticide resistance, plant_dicot, politics, population, root borer, staple food, stem borer, vegetable, vegetable variety
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The case for seed saving
Danielle Nierenberg at Food Tank writes, in that organisation’s e-newsletter, about the case for seed saving. ‘There are roughly 100,000 global plant varieties endangered in the world. Extreme weather events, over-exploitation of ecosystems, habitat loss, and a lack of public … Continue reading
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Tagged biodiversity, biotechnology, climate, conservation, crop, crop variety, development, ecosystem, food, genebank, genetic diversity, genetic modification, local variety, neglected crop, rare variety, seed, seedbank, vegetable, vegetable variety
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