Here are our Featured Link Archives: 2004 October September August July June May April March February January 2003 December November October September August July June May April March February January 2002 December November October September August July June May April 2002 Indian group to protest decision on BT cotton seed (4/30/2002) Zambian scientists without tools to regulate GM products (4/30/2002) Bt corn gets favorable review in French newspaper (4/30/2002) GM safety tests 'flawed' (4/28/2002) Accord reached on raising farm subsidies (4/28/2002) U.S. farm bill blasted in Australia, accepted in Asia (4/28/2002) Biotech crops make inroads (4/28/2002) Monsanto to move ahead with GM wheat approval (4/26/2002) EU to fund organic pest control project (4/26/2002) ADDIS ABABA, 26 Apr 2002 (IRIN) - The European Union has pledged almost one million euros (about US $897,400) to fund an innovative organic pest control-farming project in Ethiopia. Millions of farmers in the north of the country are expected to benefit from the scheme, which was set up by Save the Children Fund UK (SCFUK). The three-year project, which uses naturally-found, environmentally friendly pesticides rather than chemicals, has won plaudits worldwide. The EU pledge comes just days after the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned of a “toxic time bomb” facing Africa from highly poisonous chemicals currently used by farmers. Titans at the table (4/25/2002) It's no secret some farmers were angry when the nation's largest farmer-owned cooperative announced a joint venture with grain merchant Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM). The Farmland-ADM joint venture gives ADM management control of 24 Farmland grain elevators, with a total capacity of 174 billion bushels. Buried deep down on the farm (4/25/2002) Review of global food standards launched (4/24/2002) Mycogen patents Bt corn (4/22/2002) Mexico reports widespread GM maize contamination (4/22/2002) The Mexican government has confirmed that despite its ban on genetically modified maize, there is massive contamination of crops in areas that act as the gene bank for one of the world's staple crops. United Nations says GM crop trials fail to help developing countries (4/17/2002) Farm Bill negotiators class over loan rates (4/17/2002) (corrects million to billion in 1st paragraph). WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Key Senate and House negotiators struggled on Wednesday to reach an agreement on a new U.S. farm policy that would raise crop subsidies by $4.8 billion annually, after repeated clashes over soybean and corn loan rates that influence farmers' planting decisions. Center for Food Safety seeks federal probe of Monsanto, Aventis over canola issue (4/17/2002) NFU calls for investigations into falling cattle prices (4/16/2002) Plant patents sow seeds of destruction (4/16/2002) Sunday, March 31, 2002 - Somebody's trying to patent fish and chips - the chips part, anyway. The nonprofit organization ActionAid has filed an application with the British Patent Office, claiming that Professor Leo Pyle of Reading University has "invented" a thickly sliced, salted, deep-fried potato. Status of transgenic rootworm-protected corn (4/16/2002) China to draft new biotech safety laws (4/10/2002) Sen. Grassley: Packer Ownership Study is a 'Subterfuge' (4/10/2002) Biotechnology's Third Generation From Golden Rice to Anti-Viral Tomatoes -- Good Health or Good Marketing? (4/8/2002) As the international leaders prepare to meet in the Hague next week to discuss the UN Convention on Biodiveristy, activists are finding it difficult to get the biotech genie back in the bottle. Not even negative world opinion has slowed the development of a new generation of genetically modified plants and animals. The global controversy surrounding genetic engineering includes: U.S.-based group opens Thai office to counter `anti-GM bias' (4/8/2002) Farm Bill conferees set next formal meeting (4/5/2002) Ban Terminator before it's too late (4/5/2002) Brazil claims huge soya trade loss from U.S. subsidies (4/5/2002) Journal editors disavow article on biotech corn (4/4/2002) A more balanced Farm Bill (4/3/2002) Dispute ends for Monsanto and DuPont (4/3/2002) U.S. Targets Foreign Trade Barriers in Annual Report (4/2/2002) March February January 2001 December November October September August July June May March February 2000 November October September August July June May April March February Featured Link