“Biodiversity and Biosafety key to Food Security"
Published By kavitha On Sunday, February 17th 2013. Under Uncategorized Tags: Biodiversity, Biosafety, GM crops
“TRANSGENICS WILL NOT MEET OUR FOOD SECURITY NEEDS”
National Seminar on GM Crops and Food Security asks for a Biosafety Law to be enacted
New Delhi / Ahmedabad, February 15, 2013: The 2-day national seminar on “GM Crops and Food Security” jointly organized by Jatan Trust, Gujarat Vidyapith and Bharatiya Kisan Sangh ... Continue Reading
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