Transgenic Crop (Field Trial)s & Food Security: more than 150 scientists write to MoEF
Published By kavitha On Saturday, February 9th 2013. Under Uncategorized Tags: GM crop field trials, GM crops & food security, SC TEC
To: February 8th, 2013
Ms Jayanti Natarajan,
Hon’ble Minister for Environment & Forests,
Government of India.
Dear Madam,
Sub: TRANSGENIC CROP (FIELD TRIAL)S & FOOD SECURITY
Greetings! This is in the context of the Ministry of Agriculture responding on behalf of the Union of India to the Supreme Court Technical Expert Committee (TEC)’s first set of ... Continue Reading
“Food security through GM crops fallacious”: Scientists
Published By kavitha On Saturday, February 9th 2013. Under Uncategorized Tags: Bt brinjal, Bt brinjal moratorium, National Safe Food Day, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture, SC TEC, Task Force on Agri Biotechnology
National Safe Food Day being celebrated throughout the country, on 3rd anniversary of Bt brinjal moratorium
(Please read this press release of the Coalition along with this letter : http://indiagminfo.org/?p=540)
New Delhi, February 9th 2013: On the 3rd anniversary of a moratorium on Bt brinjal in India, in a letter to the ... Continue Reading
Coalition condemns MoA’s attempt to bring in controversial people as “eminent speakers” in a Ministry’s Conference
Published By kavitha On Tuesday, January 29th 2013. Under Uncategorized Tags: "Doubling Food Production in Five Years", Food Security, GM crops India, Sharad Pawar
The following is the text of a letter sent by the Coalition to the Minister for Agriculture, in the context of an upcoming Conference by the Ministry called "Doubling Food Production in Five Years", on Feb. 1-3, 2013 in Delhi. A full page advertisement about this appeared in national newspapers ... Continue Reading
Mark Lynas & his support of GM crops – Much ado about nothing!
Published By kavitha On Saturday, January 19th 2013. Under Uncategorized Tags: GM crops, Lynas & Lies, Mark Lynas
This note has been prepared in the context of the absolutely vested and purposefully planted story of Mark Lynas and his Confession. The Coalition for GM Free India sees this as a distraction, from the real debate on GM crops and its impacts, and its disturbing to see that even ... Continue Reading
Letter from Civil Society Organisations on Improving current regulation and implementing a robust regulatory mechanism for GM crops to ensure biosafety
Published By kavitha On Sunday, January 6th 2013. Under Uncategorized Tags: Biosafety, Civil Society to MoEF, GM crops, GM regulation, SC TEC
New Delhi
2nd January 2013
To:
Ms. Jayanti Natarajan
Minister for State for Environment & Forests (Independent Charge)
Paryavaran Bhavan, CGO Complex,
Lodi Estate, New Delhi.
Dear Madam,
Re: Improving current regulation and implementing a robust regulatory mechanism for GM crops to ensure biosafety
Greetings! And Happy New Year Wishes !
This is with regard to the first report of ... Continue Reading
ICAR REPORT ON BNBt Cotton EXPOSES INCOMPETENCE OF GM SCIENTISTS AND REGULATORS TO REGULATE GMOs IN INDIA
Published By kavitha On Saturday, December 15th 2012. Under Biosafety, Bt Cotton, Press Releases, Regulatory Processes, Uncategorized Tags: Bikaneri Bt cotton, Biosafety, Bt cotton, Desi Bt cotton, SC GMO PIL, Sopory Committee
Coalition for GM Free India demands withdrawal of Supreme Court affidavit of Ministry of Agriculture that gives clean chit to GM regulators.
Reacting to the Prof.Sopory Committee Report1 that investigated the Bt Bikaneri Narma case, the Coalition for a GM-Free India said that, “We congratulate the Committee for its thorough investigation ... Continue Reading
GOVERNMENT’S POSITION IN COURT A LET-DOWN AND UNACCEPTABLE, A BOW TO THE PRESSURE FROM BIOTECH INDUSTRY
Published By kavitha On Friday, November 9th 2012. Under Uncategorized Tags: Biosafety, Coalition for a GM-Free India, GM field trials, SC Technical Expert Committee & Field Trials
In today’s Supreme Court hearing in the PIL on GMOs, the Government of India, through its representative from the Ministry of Agriculture (and not the Ministry of Environment & Forests which has the jurisdiction on regulation of GM crops), opposed the scientifically sound recommendations of the Technical Expert Committee to ... Continue Reading
Open Letter from Indian Scientists to the Hon’ble Supreme Court
Published By kavitha On Thursday, November 8th 2012. Under Uncategorized Tags: Biosafety, Bt brinjal, Bt crops, Centre of Diversity, GM field trials, Herbicide Tolerant crops, Task Force on Agricultural Biotechnology, TEC interim report
In the case of Aruna Rodrigues Vs. Union of India ( Writ Petition (Civil) No. 260 of 2005)
November 8, 2012
To:
Hon'ble Justices Swatanter Kumar & S.J Mukhopadhyay
Supreme court of India
In the case of Aruna Rodrigues Vs. Union of India
(Writ Petition (Civil) No. 260 of 2005)
Respected Sirs,
Sub: Request to accept the interim ... Continue Reading
Major Farmer Unions Urge Supreme Court To Stop GM Field Trials
Published By kavitha On Wednesday, November 7th 2012. Under Uncategorized Tags: AIKS, AISSMS, APRS, Biosafety, BKS, BKU, farmers' unions, GM field trials, Gujarat Khedut Samaj, SICCFM
Before the crucial hearing on 9th November on the interim report of the Court-appointed Technical Expert Committee (TEC) in the GMOs PIL in the Indian Supreme Court, major farmers’ unions across the country have sent letters to the Court, urging it to put an end to field trials of GM ... Continue Reading
MoEF should accept the Technical Expert Committee’s interim report on GMO field trials
Published By kavitha On Tuesday, November 6th 2012. Under Uncategorized Tags: Biosafety, Convention on Biological Diversity, GM crop field trials, Supreme Court TEC and field trials
Coalition for a GM-Free India's letter to Ms Jayanti Natarajan:
6th November 2012
To
Smt. Jayanthi Natarajan,
Hon’ble Minister for Environment & Forests
Government of India.
Dear Madam,
Sub: MoEF should accept the Technical Expert Committee’s interim report on GMO field trials and safety assessment
Greetings!
As you are well aware, that the Supreme Court has a crucial hearing ... Continue Reading
TECHNICAL EXPERT COMMITTEE REPORT SCIENTIFIC AND SENSIBLE: FARMER UNIONS AND COALITION HOPE THAT SUPREME COURT WILL ACCEPT THE INTERIM REPORT IN TOTO
Published By kavitha On Monday, October 29th 2012. Under Uncategorized Tags: Cartagena Biosafety Protocol, Field Trials, superpests, Superweeds, Technical Expert Committee report in GMOs PIL
On the eve of the Supreme Court Hearing in the PIL related to GMOs (Writ Petition (Civil) No. 260 of 2005, by Aruna Rodrigues and ors) which is to look into the interim report of the Technical Expert Committee appointed by the Court, the Coalition for a GM-Free India condemned ... Continue Reading
All field trials to be stopped, unless conditions met: SC Technical Expert Committee submits interim report
Published By kavitha On Thursday, October 18th 2012. Under Field Trials, Uncategorized Tags: Biosafety, Bt brinjal, Bt cotton, GM field trials, Moratorium on Bt food crops, SC technical expert committee in GMOs PIL
"10-year Moratorium on field trials of Bt food crops, Moratorium on field trials of Herbicide Tolerant crops (till independent assessment of impact and suitability) and Ban on field trials of GM crops for which India is Centre of Origin/Diversity"
In an Interim Report signed off on 7th October 2012 (D.No.1944/2005/SC/PIL in ... Continue Reading
Coalition condemns Biotech industry attempts to hijack and dilute the CBD MOP6 discussions
Published By kavitha On Saturday, October 6th 2012. Under Uncategorized Tags: Biosafety, Biotech Industry, CBD MOP6, Coalition for GM-Free India, Field Trials, Monsanto, Nagoya Supplementary Protocol, Precautionary Principle, Socio Economic Considerations
MOP exposes real safety concerns of GM crops;
Coalition demands that India should not allow any open-air field trials or release of GM crops.
A comprehensive Biosafety Law be enacted with strict liability and redress provisions.
The CBD MOP6, has for once, exposed the Global Biotech industry’s attempts to ... Continue Reading
NO SHORT-CUT TO REAL BIOSAFETY
Published By kavitha On Wednesday, October 3rd 2012. Under Uncategorized Tags: Biosafety, Coalition for a GM-Free India, GM field trials
Today (October 2nd 2012), civil society, particularly from the host country India, urged global leaders at the MOP6 on Biosafety Protocol to follow the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), in letter and spirit, to ensure that our biodiversity and with it the access of the local people to their biological ... Continue Reading
“GM Crops a Danger to India’s Food and Nutrition Security”
Published By kavitha On Tuesday, October 2nd 2012. Under Uncategorized Tags: GM & Yield, GM crops & food security, Superweeds
’GM lobbyists’ claims of yield advantage for GMOs unfounded, state international scientists’
Hyderabad, September 27th 2012: GM crops do not provide a solution to current and coming challenges. These include climate change, increased losses from pests, increasing population, scarce water and expensive energy and fertilizers. Analysis of Monsanto’s new drought-tolerant ... Continue Reading