PANUPS: Resource Pointer #387: Genetically Modified Organisms

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Resource Pointer #387: Genetically Modified Organisms

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Resource Pointer #387 (Genetically Modified Organisms- GMOs)

June 15, 2005

 

For copies of the following resources, please contact the appropriate

publishers or organizations directly.

 

*Genetically Modified Crops: The African Challenge, 2005* Environmental

Rights Action, Friends of the Earth, Nigeria. Explores the challenges

Africa faces today as leaders are being assured that genetically

modified or engineered (GM) crops and GM food aid will eradicate

hunger, and

malnutrition. Report emphasizes the environmental and social risks of a

GMO invasion of Africa. 26 pages. Available online as a free download

at http://www.eraction.org/index.php/. Contact Friends of the Earth

Nigeria, PO Box 10577, Ugbowo, Benin City, Nigeria; phone +234 52 600165;

fax +234 52 602680; email eraction; website

http://www.eraction.org/.

 

*Genetically Engineered Crops and Pesticide Use in the United States:

The First Nine Years, 2004* Charles M. Benbrook. Reveals that farmers

now use more pesticides on the top three genetically engineered (GE)

crops--corn, soybeans, and cotton--than on conventional varieties.

Predicts

that the intensity of herbicide use on GE crops is not likely to

subside in the near future because of the popularity of herbicide

tolerant

(HT) varieties (tolerant to glyphosate), the limited supply of seeds for

non-HT varieties, and increasingly aggressive pesticide industry

campaigns targeting farmers growing HT crops. Available as a free

download at

http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_environment/biotechnology/page.cfm?pageID=1542.

 

Contact Union of Concerned Scientists, 2 Brattle Square, Cambridge, MA

02238-9105; phone (617) 547-5552; fax (617) 864-9405; website

http://www.ucsusa.org/.

 

*Control Through Contamination: US Forcing GMO Corn and Free Trade on

Mexico and Central America, 2003* S'ra DeSantis. Looks at the dangers

genetically engineered crops and foods pose to human health, the

environment and farming communities. Also focuses on the ways that

free trade

agreements force GMOs (genetically modified organisms) into Mexico and

Central America. 28 pages. Available online as a free download at

http://www.asej.org/index.php?name=home & ID=59. Contact ISE

Biotechnology Project, Northeast Resistance Against Genetic

Engineering, 1118 Maple

Hill Road, Plainfield, VT 05667; phone (802) 454-7138; email

info; website http://www.nerage.org/.

 

*Status of crop biotechnologies in Developing Countries - FAO report,

2003* Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Contains

an on-line searchable database called FAO-BioDeC, providing information

on biotechnology products and techniques in use or in the pipeline in

developing countries. Entries cover genetically modified crops and

non-GM biotechnologies. Accessible in Arabic, English, French and

Spanish.

53 pages. Available as a free download at http://www.fao.org/biotech/.

Contact FOA, Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture; email

charlotte.lietaer website http://www.fao.org/biotech/.

 

*GM Contamination Register,

Website*http://www.gmcontaminationregister.org/. GeneWatch UK and

Greenpeace.

Intended to be a resource for individuals, public interest groups and

governments. Searchable website gives details of all the known cases of

GM contamination of food, feed, seed and wild plants that have taken

place worldwide. Includes information about, and links to GeneWatch UK

and

Greenpeace websites as well as other useful sites. Contact GeneWatch

UK, The Mill House, Manchester Road, Tideswell, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17

8LN, UK; email info; website

http://www.genewatch.org.

 

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