Tag: transgenics

Brazil: Multinationals’ Pressure Delays Transgenics’ Labeling Tilll 2012

Until 2012 exports and imports among the Cartagena Biosecurity Protocol signatory nations will not ...

Large importers demand identification of transgenics

By backing the detailed identification of transgenic products for export, Brazil is meeting a ...

Genetically Modified Crops Heat Up Brazil’s Environment Meeting

The transposition of the São Francisco River and transgenic foods are the issues generating ...

Brazil Government Blames Congress for Use of Transgenics

Responding to criticisms made by social movements and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) about authorizing the ...

Transgenics Is Like the Plague and Brazil Caught It

On March 4, 2005, Brazil’s Law of Biosecurity, which legalizes the planting and commercialization ...

Brazil Greenlights Transgenics and Stem Cell Research

Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies ended the controversy over the cultivation of genetically modified seeds ...

Greenpeace Calls Brazil’s Biosecurity Bill Unconstitutional

The non-governmental organization (NGO), Greenpeace, released a note summoning civil society to mobilize against ...

Brazil: Lula Between Greens and Farmers on GMC

Movements grounded in civil society raised their voices last week against the possibility of ...