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Environmental Commons: Attempt to strip local authority over seeds and plants fails in California legislature
Bayer Corporation. Japan, South Korea, and Europe immediately placed bans and restrictions on long grain rice imports. The contamination has caused rice futures to fall an ...
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Environmental Commons: Genetically Engineered Rice Wins USDA Approval
U.S. rice supply this summer... The experimental rice, designed to resist Bayer's Liberty weedkiller, ... prompted countries around the world to block rice imports from the United States, sending rice futures plummeting and farmers into fits. In approving the rice, the USDA allowed Bayer to take ...
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GM crops | Greenpeace UK
US rice imports because of GM contamination threat 29 Sep 2006 Contaminated US rice has been found all over Europe, including in the UK and Germany Bayer's illegal GM rice ... company will purchase rice from other countries, with the exception of China, which continues to have problems with GM contamination of its rice. "By imposing a blanket ban on rice imports from the US ...
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New Rice for Africa
Rice Promises and Perils of GM Rice Two Rice Better Than One One Bird - Ten Thousand Treasures New Rice For Africa ISIS Press Release 28/07/04 New Rice for Africa A new rice ... rice species with the high productivity of the Asian rice. This has happened at a time when demand for rice is growing faster in West Africa than anywhere else in the world. Rice imports ...
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Banned Pesticides Heavily Used in Third World
This followed a brownhopper outbreak that seriously damaged the country's rice crop and set the nation's political alarm bells ringing. It is estimated that the ... consumption of rice is increasing faster than any other staple, but there is a growing gap between domestic production and demand. FAO estimates that, by the turn of the century, rice imports for ...
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Say No To GMOs! - September 2006
Japan, the E.U., and other important U.S. rice importing countries reacted immediately with bans and restrictions on long grain rice imports, shaking the rice industry and causing the rice ...
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Say No To GMOs! - 2006 Updates
GM Rice Bayer Faces More Lawsuits Over GMO Rice EU Set to Stop GMO-Tainted US Rice Rice Contaminated by GM Has Been on Sale for Months Japan Suspends US Long-Grain Rice Imports Biotech Firm, Government Hid Rice Contamination from Public GMO Chinese Rice ...
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rice | Greenpeace UK
EU is contaminated with an illegal genetically modified (GM) strain from the US. Those are the findings of the European Commission's own investigation into EU rice imports, following the admission in August by the US government that untested strains of GM rice had entered the food chain. Read more » Tags: GM, GM food, rice, bayer, germany ...
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At Time of Food Crisis, New Rice Varieties Boost Africa’s Rice Production
In 2006, when prices were much lower, the region’s rice imports cost US$2 billion. “Relying so much on rice from other countries is a recipe for disaster for this continent,’’ said Dr. Papa Abdoulaye Seck, Director General of the Africa Rice ...
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Chart - China's Rice Balance: Supply & Utilization, 1961-1996
Stocks had to be used to achieve the necessary supply. 1995 was the first year, where China needed significant net-imports of rice. Fortunately, rice production was up again in 1996, so that no no imports and extractions from stocks were necessary. Utilization The most significant trend in China's rice ...
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