GM maize splits Mexico

Dismay with GM maize

in 1974, the physician and writer Lewis thomas published a collection of essays titled The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher. in one of those articles, ‘the technology of Medicine’, thomas divides technological progress into three categories that he describes as “nontechnology”, “halfway technology” and “high technology”. Nontechnological solutions include bedside care—delivered by ph...

Spanish farmers welcome GM maize

European resistance to GM crops — the result of one of the most highly effective environmental campaigns and ongoing worries about environmental damage — is set to be challenged by soaring food prices and a new enthusiasm on the part of farmers. A new study finds European farmers who grow genetically modified crops enjoy higher yields and revenues than conventional growers. A team from the Join...

Maize and Biodiversity: The Effects of Transgenic Maize in Mexico

Note: Ten chapters were prepared as background for the work of the Maize Advisory Group and for input to the public symposium, held 11 March 2004, in Oaxaca as part of the CEC Article 13 study on maize and biodiversity. These chapters were later reviewed and revised prior to this release, based on comments received at the symposium and during the subsequent comment period. Responses to reviewer...

Co-existence of GM and non GM crops: case study of maize grown in Spain

The evidence to date shows that these three types of maize production have co-existed without economic and commercial problems. This includes in regions such as Catalunya where GM (Bt) is concentrated. Where non GM maize has been required in some markets, supplies have been relatively easily obtained, based on market-driven adherence to on/post farm segregation and by the purchase of maize from...

Monitoring the Environmental Impacts of GM Maize in South Africa