News and Updates: GMOs

Under Pressure from Large Farmers, Iguaçu National Park is Threatened [3-23-11]

By Riquieli CapitaniIguacu National Park

A newsletter of the Federation of Agriculture of the State of Paraná (Faep) announced a reduction of 10 km to 1,200 meters of the buffer zone of Iguaçu National Park, later this month,...

Women’s Protest at Aracruz Celebrates 5 Years [3-4-11]

2006 action at aracruzBy Bianca Costa

On the morning of March 8, 2006, 1,800 women from Via Campesina carried out a major action against the monoculture...

[12/02/09] MST Informa #177: Science According To CTNBio

Since the creation of the National Technical Commission (CTNBio) in 2005, biotech multinationals have benefited with consecutive approvals without exception of all of the petitions to release transgenic varieties in Brazil. Between 2005 and the end of 2009, CTNBio will give full reign to the commercial planting of two different varieties of...

[05/22/08] Friends of the MST Protest Syngenta Outside Chicago

Protesters target seed company in Lisle May 9, 2008 The Lisle Sun By Eva McKendrick emckendrick@scn1.com About a dozen activists May 2 staged a protest at the Syngenta Seeds facility in Lisle, seeking a response from its Swiss headquarters on alleged environmental and human rights violations in Brazil...

[03/22/08] Expansion of Biotechnology in Brazil Augments Rural Conflicts

by Isabella Kenfield Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP) On March 7th—International Women's Day—dozens of Brazilian women occupied a research site of the U.S.-based agricultural biotechnology giant Monsanto in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, destroying the greenhouse and experimental plots of genetically-modified (GM) corn...

[10/25/07] MST Informa #144: Crimes of Syngenta Seeds -- Out of Brazil!

Dear friend of the MST,

In this special edition we would like to share with you the struggle of Via Campesina against the transnational company Syngenta Seeds, of Switzerland, and denounce the number of crimes which this company has committed against humanity in the Brazilian territory:

1. SUMMARY EXECUTION CRIMES AGAINST THE...

[10/29/07] Corporate Murder in Brazil: Land Activists Shot by Militia Linked to Multinational

by Isabella Kenfield and Roger Burbach In the Brazilian state of Paraná, Valmir Mota de Oliveira of Via Campesina, an international peasant organization, was shot twice in the chest at point blank range by armed gunmen on an experimental farm of Syngenta Seeds, a multinational agribusiness corporation. The cold blooded murder took place on...

[10/23/07] MST's Valmir Mota de Oliveira, aka "Keno", murdered on 10/21/07

MST's Valmir Mota de Oliveira, aka "Keno"...

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