Essentially the application of the patent constituted an act of biopiracy – violating Indian law and international treaties.
CONTINUE READINGMonsanto’s melon Patent is biopiracy at its most devious. The patented resistance was not invented, but just discovered in an Indian melon […]
CONTINUE READINGNavdanya ‘Pulse of Life’ Campaign Launch Celebrations at Navdanya Biodiversity Conservation Farm in Doon Valley and at Navdanya Organic Café […]
CONTINUE READINGJoin us in The Hague from 14th to 16th October 2016 – The People’s Assembly will be a gathering of movements, seed savers, seed defenders, farmers and growers and civilians to address the crimes […]
CONTINUE READING– 2016 is the year of Pulses. Navdanya is launching a campaign “Pulse of life” to conserve India’s pulse diversity, […]
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CONTINUE READINGAn independent fact-finding team of cotton experts that examined Bt cotton fields destroyed by pink bollworm in Raichur district on Thursday strongly held that the crop destruction was not due to adulteration of seeds, but due to the failure of Bt technology itself.
CONTINUE READINGMahyco Monsanto Biotech (MMB), the joint venture between US-based Monsanto and Mahyco, has cancelled the licence of Bt cotton seed manufacturer Nuziveedu Seeds and its two subsidiaries, Prabhat Seeds and Prabhat Agri Bio-tech, for “non-payment of royalty fees” (trait value) of Rs 160 crore for using its Bollgard-II technology.
CONTINUE READINGVenezuelan lawmakers approved Wednesday a new law that will impose stricter regulations on hybrid seeds and ban transgenic seed research.
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