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17 April 2010

140 groups & scientists urge Senate to oppose GM clause in Global Food Security Act

140 groups & scientists urge Senate to oppose GM clause in Global Food Security Act 13 Apr 2010 Dear Colleagues: Today’s press release on the Global Food Security Act below, expressing the concerns of PAN, Food First, National Family Farm Coalition, the African Center for Biosafety and partners. And MANY MANY thanks to all of […]

14 April 2010

ACB’s objection to Monsanto’s application for trial release of drought tolerant GM ma...

Monsanto has been conducting field trials of drought tolerant maize in South Africa since 2007, and has recently applied to have these trials extended. Monsanto has presented the trials as forming part of the much larger Water Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA) Initiative, of which the African Centre for Biosafety has already criticised in a […]

12 March 2010

Support our appeal to the minister for Environmental Impact Assessment of GM maize GA21

On the13th of December 2009, Syngenta published a public notice of their intent to apply to the GMO Registrar for a permit for the general release of genetically modified maize, GA21. Having obtained a ‘non-confidential-business-information’ version of Syngenta’s application, it is our contention that the application cannot be adequately assessed. The information provided is sketchy […]

7 February 2010

ACB’s Objection to Syngenta’s application for general release of GM maize GA21

On 13th of December 2009, Syngenta published a public notice of their intent to apply to the GMO Registrar for a permit for the general release of genetically modified maize, GA21. Having obtained a ‘non-confidential-business-information’ version of Syngenta’s application, it is our contention that the application cannot be adequately assessed. The information provided is sketchy […]

15 September 2009

ACB’S Objections to Syngenta’s application for field trials of GM Maize

Prepared for the African Centre for Biosafety by Dr William Stafford September 2009 Description of Application GA21 and Bt11xGA21 transgenic maize are genetically modified maize events. The Bt11xGA21 stacked maize was produced by the conventional breeding of individual GA21 and Bt11 transgenic events. GA21 maize produces a modified maize 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase enzyme (mEPSPS) that confers […]

7 September 2009

Monsanto GM Canola objection

ACB’S OBJECTIONS TO MONSANTO’S APPLICATION FOR FIELD TRIAL RELEASE OF HERBICIDE-RESISTANT CANOLA (BRASICA NAPUS RT73) Prepared for the African Centre for Biosafety by Dr William Stafford September 2009. Read here.

28 August 2009

Objections to Syngenta’s application for commodity import of triple stacked maize

(Bt11xMIR162xGA21) Prepared for the African Centre for Biosafety by Dr William Stafford CONTENTS Read here.

28 January 2009

Final Petition anti GM Potatoes

South Africa’s Agriculture and Research Council (ARC) has announced their intention to apply to the SA government for permission to make GM potatoes commercially available.

14 January 2009

South African government non-compliance with national and international law on access to information

Take Action! Write to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry demanding access to information on GMOs On 14th January 2009 the African Centre for Biosafety wrote to the Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs, Lulama Xingwama, alerting her to the fact that South Africa is not complying to an important provision in the Cartagena […]

3 June 2008

Resist Bayer Cropscience’s GM Cotton Trials in SA

GMOs Contribute Towards Food Crisis Read objection here.