with reference to products and future trends, describing some of the new technologies and what they will mean to the farmer and to the industry as a whole. In common with other companies, we at Monsanto realize the need to contribute to the feeding of two billion more people over the next 20 to 30 years, while respecting the environment. To rely on the methods of increasing food production that...

MICROBIOLOGY. For the article ‘‘Subcellular localization of acetylCoA carboxylase in the apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii,’’ by J. Jelenska, M. J. Crawford, O. S. Harb, E. Zuther, R. Haselkorn, D. S. Roos, and P. Gornicki, which appeared in number 5, February 27, 2001, of Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (98, 2723–2728; First Published February 13, 2001; 10.1073 pnas.051629998), the authors no...

The commercial seed industry has undergone tremendous consolidation in the last 40 years as transnational corporations entered this agricultural sector, and acquired or merged with competing firms. This trend is associated with impacts that constrain the opportunities for renewable agriculture, such as reductions in seed lines and a declining prevalence of seed saving. To better characterize th...

The demand for S A R plants is on the rise. this. First and foremost, the requirements for dealing with spent acids in an environmentally safe manner and the shift toward a refinery alkylation process to avoid the possible hazards from hydrogen fluoride. "tolling" or transporting spent acid long distances to independent regeneration plants for recycling is hazardous and may be cost prohibitive....

Much has been made of the supposed problem of farmers being exposed to liability for patent infringement based on the inadvertent, or even unavoidable, presence of patented genetically modified plants on the farmer’s fields. It has resulted in calls for limitations on the scope and enforceability of patents that would in all likelihood substantially undercut the ability of many innovators to ob...

Do firms need to sacrifice profit while innovating in order to further social objectives, as corporate social responsibility (CSR) would seem to suggest? To answer this question, the paper compiles a classification of innovations according to market impact and CSR potential. Then it details case studies of two market changing (MC) innovations in India: genetically modified cotton of Monsanto an...

MARKUS LIPP Monsanto Co., 800 N. Lindbergh Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63167 RAYMOND SHILLITO Bayer CropScience, PO Box 12014, 2 T.W. Alexander Dr, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 RANDAL GIROUX Cargill Inc., 2301 Crosby Rd, Wayzata, MN 55391 FRANK SPIEGELHALTER GeneScan USA, 2315 N. Causeway Blvd, Suite 200, Metairie, LA 70001 STACY CHARLTON Syngenta Biotechnology, PO Box 12257, 3054 Cornwallis Rd, Re...

Au-delà d’une bataille écologique tenace pour l’abandon du projet d’aéroport, le bocage de Notre-Dame des Landes a constitué un terrain d’expérimentation transformer l’occupation militante en droit pérenne d’usage terres. Les « zadistes » se sont battus devenir agriculteurs et exploiter collectivement la terre au service agriculture écolo non Monsanto ». Ils ont parié sur fait mener une face à ...

In today’s debates on transgenic, or genetically modified (GM), crops for third world farmers, some of the most diverse positions have come from the third world itself. For instance, Indian physicist-cum-activist Vandana Shiva is one of the world’s most potent opponents of GM crops, while Kenyan biologist Florence Wambugu is a leading proponent (and practitioner) of crop genetic modification an...

This document provides an opinion of the Scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO Panel) of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) on genetically modified maize MON 863 and the maize hybrid MON 863 x MON 810. The opinion is based on two questions raised by the Commission related to applications for the placing of the maize on the market by Monsanto under the Novel Food Regulat...