Agriculture
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From definitions to solutions: Can local food systems sustainably deliver fair rewards for farmers and access to quality food for all?
Richard Kipling, the SFT’s Senior Research Advisor, takes an in-depth look at how we can work towards flourishing local food systems that build communities, increase food security for all, and provide a fair return to farmers and growers. Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 3 December 2024
Tuesday, 3 December 2024 — GM Watch Victory! US federal court strikes down lax GMO rules, halts GE crop introductions without USDA oversight In a precedent-setting victory for food and environmental safety, a federal district court in the US has ruled that genetically engineered (GE) organisms must be regulated. The Court’s ruling overturns the 2020… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 28 November 2024
Thursday, 28 November 2024 — GM Watch New Zealand: Farmers want consultation on gene editing changes The vast majority – 93% – of farmers surveyed think it is important that there is widespread consultation with farmers and growers on changes to New Zealand’s gene editing regulations. Account director at research company Truwind (formerly Research First)… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 20 November 2024
Wednesday, 20 November 2024 — GM Watch New Zealand: Market, not scientists, must drive GM stance Concerned dairy farmers are asking the New Zealand government to slow the process of weakening the GMO laws. They say New Zealand dairy is the gold standard for non-GMO supply, but the government seems determined to wreck that. They… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 4 November 2024
Monday, 4 November 2024 — GM Watch US government paid PR firm to track and vilify critics of GMOs and pesticides Covert PR operations involving the secret profiling of over 3,000 people and organisations considered “critics” of the pesticide industry recently made headlines around the world. The secret profiles, including ones on GMWatch and its… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 25 October 2025
Friday, 25 October 2025 — GM Watch Landmark Supreme Court of Appeal judgment on the precautionary principle in GMO decision making The African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) on 22 October reported on a groundbreaking ruling against Bayer-Monsanto and five state respondents in South Africa, which set aside several layers of decision-making regarding the approval of… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 23 October 2024
Wednesday, 23 October 2024 — GM Watch South Africa: Court ruling sets aside commercial approval of GM drought-tolerant maize A precedent-setting ruling by the South African Supreme Court of Appeal in favour of African Center for Biosafety (ACB) vs Monsanto/Bayer has set aside the commercial approval of GM drought-tolerant maize. ACB said: “South Africa’s Supreme… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest, 22 October 2024
Tuesday, 22 October 2024 — GMWatch AI + synthetic biology: What could possibly go wrong? GMO soybeans and corn were a pale forerunner of what is about to happen: the marriage of artificial intelligence (AI) and synthetic biology. For many years already scientists have been able to create novel sequences of DNA, and they’ve already… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 20 September 2024
Friday, 20 September 2024 — GMWatch The appearance in the EU of illegal GM-contaminated organic basmati rice reminds us that GMOs, once released, cannot be contained (GMO CONTAMINATION). Also in the EU, GMO advisory body EFSA continues to appoint industry-linked experts to its GMO Panel (LOBBYWATCH). Continue reading
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GMWatch Daily Digest – 18 September 2024
Wednesday, 18 September 2024 — GMWatch Cutting the crap on gene technology Three articles published over recent weeks and months demolish the EU Commission’s and New Zealand government’s proposals for deregulating new GMOs made with techniques such as gene editing. They show why the proposals, which would remove safety checks and labelling from a new… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest – 17 September 2024
Tuesday, 17 September 2024 — GM Watch Successful detection methods for new genomic techniques It’s becoming increasingly clear that detection and identification of new GMO (new genomic techniques, NGT) plants will be possible, as long as such research continues to be supported. In a study commissioned by the German Federal Office for Agriculture and Food,… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest, Monday, 16 September 2024
Monday, 16 September 2024 — GM Watch Impossible Burger maker drives rival out of business with “incredibly bitter” lawsuit In his 2022 book Regenesis and his subsequent campaigning with WePlanet, Guardian-columnist George Monbiot has championed “precision fermentation” (the PR term for synthetic biology – synbio – or extreme genetic engineering) as the main future generator… Continue reading
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The Animal Feed Industry’s Impact on the Planet
In some parts of the continental United States, you might drive through a nearly unchanging landscape for hours. Stretching for miles and miles, vast swaths of soil are dedicated to growing crops—corn, grains, fruits, and vegetables that make up the foundation of our food system. Continue reading
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Dutch farmers battle technocratic forces driving them into oblivion
Dutch farmers are in open struggle against a cartel of multinational corporations, Davos-aligned parties and NGO’s seeking control over the global food supply. “They are sweeping the culture from the land,” a farmer laments. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 2 December 2022
Friday, 2 December 2022 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks New Figures Show Massive Decrease in Planting of GM Crops in European Union Figures for the area under MON810, the only transgenic GMO crop authorized for cultivation in the European Union, have just been published. And it’s a downward spiral: a third less than last year.… Continue reading
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Pesticide Action Network News – November 2022
This year marks the 60th anniversary of Silent Spring, one of the most important environmental books of the 20th century. We dedicate this November issue of Pesticide News to the book’s author, Rachel Carson, who wrote a ground-breaking, ecological alarm call that we are still rallying behind today. Continue reading
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Food, Farming, and Africa: An Open Letter to Bill Gates
We, 50 organizations focused on food sovereignty and justice worldwide, want you to know there is no shortage of practical solutions and innovations by African farmers and organizations. We invite you to step back and learn from those on the ground. —Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa Continue reading
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Glyphosate, GMOs and Pesticides – Weekly Global News Bulletin 28 October 2022
Friday, 28 October 2022 — Sustainable Pulse Indian Government Restricts Use of Glyphosate in Massive Blow to Agrichemical Lobby The Indian government has restricted the use of glyphosate-based herbicides due to the risks to human and animal health. On Tuesday the Agricultural Ministry stated in a notification that “the use of glyphosate is prohibited and… Continue reading
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Engineered Food Crisis: Agri Biotech Motivated by Monopoly Control and “Sacred GMO Cash Cow”
We are currently seeing rising food prices due to a combination of an engineered food crisis for geopolitical reasons, financial speculation by hedge funds, pension funds and investment banks and profiteering by global grain trade conglomerates like Cargill, Louis Dreyfus, ADM and Bunge. Continue reading
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Whose Grain Is Being Shipped From Ukraine?
A great humanitarian uproar in recent weeks demanding the safe shipping of Ukrainian grain to ease a hunger crisis in Africa and elsewhere is deceptive on many levels. Not the least is who owns the land on which the grain is grown and whether that grain is actually illegal GMO patented corn and other grains.… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 