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Après le coton, #Monsanto cherche à multiplier les #OGM en Afrique de l’Ouest - Biotechnologies - Basta !
http://www.bastamag.net/article2992.html

Le #Burkina_Faso, l’un des pays les plus pauvres de la planète, a opté pour une variété OGM de Monsanto dans l’espoir de redresser sa filière cotonnière, qui fait vivre trois millions de personnes. Promesses de rendements non tenues, droits de propriété prohibitifs, coton de moindre qualité… Le bilan est plus que mitigé. Qu’importe, Monsanto cherche à étendre son coton OGM et travaille sur des haricots et du sorgho génétiquement modifiés. Certains craignent « une mainmise des biotechnologies » sur les cultures alimentaires.

#brevets #alimentation #agrobusiness #fibres

The Hindu : Opinion / Lead : GM crops are no way forward
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article3812825.ece?homepage=true

Food security is not about production alone; it is also about bio-safety, and access to food for the poorest

We are predominantly an agricultural economy, with the agricultural sector providing employment and subsistence to almost 70 per cent of the workforce. There have been some remarkable contributions from the agriculture sector to food grain production in the last six decades, when from a meagre 50 million tonnes in the 1950s, the country has been able to produce a record 241 million tonnes in 2010-2011. Despite these achievements, the condition of the farming community is pitiable considering that 70 per cent of our farmers are small and marginal, and there is a complete absence of pro-farmer/pro-agriculture policies which has led us to an environment of very severe agrarian distress.

#Inde #OGM #politique_agricole

Defending seed sovereignty - The Ecologist
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/1547385/defending_seed_sovereignty.html

A new Global Campaign for Seed Freedom will be celebrating the fortnight from Ghandi’s birthday (October 2nd) to World Food Day (October 16th) as the first Seed Satyagraha during which all participants will declare No Patents On Seeds

The brainchild of Indian environmental activist Vandana Shiva and her Navdanya organisation, the new campaign is circulating a declaration (see details below) that you can sign to become a Seed Defender.

#semences #résistance #agriculture #alimentation

GM Crops Offer Natural Pest Control | The Scientist
http://the-scientist.com/2012/06/13/gm-crops-offer-natural-pest-control

Furthermore, if the spill-over effects seen in their test plots also applies to crops commonly planted alongside Bt cotton in northern Chinese farms, it could confer wide-reaching benefits. But the strategy will only work if Bt crops are not ubiquitous, Desneux noted, because it’s the diversity of crops that alleviates the selection pressure on pests to become resistant to Bt’s insecticide. “To prevent the selection of resistant populations in the pest, we just have to ensure that we still have non-Bt crops in the landscape,” Desneux said

#foutagedegueule

New report: Genetic engineering is dangerous for health and the environment | Social Watch
http://www.socialwatch.org/node/15162

A new study entitled “GMO myths and truths” challenges the conventional wisdom that “critics of genetically engineered food are anti-science”, reported Earth Open Source. The study produced by Dr Michael Antoniou, Dr John Fagan and Claire Robinson presents a large body of peer-reviewed scientific and other authoritative evidence of hazards to health and the environment posed by genetically engineered crops and organisms (GMOs).

Unusually, the initiative for the report came not from campaigners but from Antoniou and Fagan, two genetic engineers who believe there are good scientific reasons to be wary of GM foods and crops.

#OGM #agrobusiness #santé #environnement #pesticides

Science hits GM crops (while China stops sowing) | Social Watch
http://www.socialwatch.org/node/13810

Far from putting an end to the hunger in the world and from improving farmer’s quality of life, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are raising food insecurity and health hazards and failing to increase the yields of crops, according to new scientific studies.

A month later, a report launched by 20 South-east Asian, African and Latin American civil society organizations proved that GMOs have caused an increase in the use of chemicals that contaminate the ground, and the rapid spread of infertile transgenic “superweeds” to lands where they were not seed.

Navdanya’s research in India has shown that contrary to [US firm] Monsanto’s claim of Bt cotton yield of 1500 kg per acre, the reality is that the yield is an average of 400-500 kg per acre,” wrote renowned scholar and activist Vandana Shiva, who led the report among with her colleagues Debbie Barker and Caroline Lockhart.

Another study, published on Sept. 28 by the Washington-based Food and Water Watch and titled “Genetically Engineered Food: An Overview”, conclude that GMO’s proliferation into vast lands have caused a slew of environmental and health crises, and actually increased poverty by forcing millions of farmers to “buy” patented seeds at exorbitant prices, reported IPS news agency.

A third report, published this month by the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB), warned against the authorisation to conduct the first ever field trials in South Africa involving GM bananas not only because of the biosafety risks “to human and animal health, the environment and to society”, but also because of “the lack of public interest or commercial justification”.

ACB thinks that transgenic disease resistant bananas cannot overcome the problems of land tenure to competition from more ecologically suitable production areas, such as those in Mozambique, a shift in the industry that will mean the loss of 24 000 on farm jobs in South Africa.

#OGM #Monsanto #agriculture

GM crops promote superweeds, food insecurity and pesticides, say NGOs | Environment | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/19/gm-crops-insecurity-superweeds-pesticides

Genetic engineering has failed to increase the yield of any food crop but has vastly increased the use of chemicals and the growth of “superweeds”, according to a report by 20 Indian, south-east Asian, African and Latin American food and conservation groups representing millions of people.

#OGM #alimentation #agribusiness #érosion

Compaoré livre les paysans ouest-africains à Monsanto...
►http://survie.org/billets-d-afrique/2011/204-juillet-aout-2011/article/compaore-livre-les-paysans-ouest
Avec le Burkina et son industrie cotonnière comme cheval de Troie, les industries biotechs mènent une offensive massive pour imposer les OGM en Afrique de l’Ouest. A terme, l’Europe sera encore davantage isolée dans son refus des semences « made in Monsanto ». Etat des lieux et des complicités.

Compaoré livre les paysans ouest-africains à Monsanto... | deor (Relevé sur le net)
►http://survie.org/billets-d-afrique/2011/204-juillet-aout-2011/article/compaore-livre-les-paysans-ouest

Avec le Burkina et son industrie cotonnière comme cheval de Troie, les industries biotechs mènent une offensive massive pour imposer les OGM en Afrique de l’Ouest. A terme, l’Europe sera encore davantage isolée dans son refus des semences « made in Monsanto ». Etat des lieux et des complicités. (...)

OGM : de la toxine Bt retrouvée dans le sang de femmes enceintes et de leurs fœtus au Québec

Les auteurs concluent à la nécessité de poursuivre les analyses d’impact des organismes génétiquement modifiés (#OGM) sur les humains. Professeur-chercheur au département de gynécologie-obstétrique de la faculté de médecine de l’Université de Sherbrooke, Aziz Aris s’intéresse particulièrement à la toxicité d’origine environnementale sur les fœtus et les mères. Or, dit-il, l’impact des OGM a été abondamment testé sur les animaux, mais jamais sur les humains. C’est la première fois que la présence de résidus de #pesticides d’OGM dans le sang des femmes est démontrée. Ces femmes et leur conjoint, étant citadins et n’ayant jamais travaillé au contact de pesticides, ces résultats résulteraient donc principalement de leur #alimentation.

| Greenpeace France
http://ogm.greenpeace.fr/ogm-de-la-toxine-bt-retrouvee-dans-le-sang-de-femmes-enceintes-et-de-

Monsanto reconnaît l’inutilité de son coton OGM - Agriculture - Basta !
http://www.bastamag.net/article943.html

Suite à une étude menée dans l’Etat du Gujarat, à l’ouest de l’Inde, la firme Monsanto feint aujourd’hui de découvrir que son coton transgénique (le « coton Bt ») se révèle... inefficace. Les insectes contre lesquels est censé lutter ce coton OGM ont développé des résistances aux pesticides inoculés dans les plantes. Annoncé depuis longtemps par diverses ONG, ce risque d’apparition de résistance est documenté scientifiquement depuis plusieurs années déjà. Monsanto et ses chercheurs sont, en fait, en retard de dix ans. Ça c’est de l’innovation !

#agriculture #menteur #profitation #for:twitter