Agriculture, Beverages & Food

Is fabric made from corn an eco-friendly wonder product or just more greenwash? Read More

This articles lists the world's seven largest agrochemical companies and according to 2001 sales reports, published in Agrow: World Crop Protection News the gap in sales between these companies has narrowed. Syngenta continued to maintain highest revenues, with nearly US$5.4 billion in pesticide and seed sales. However, Bayer's anticipated purchase of Aventis CropScience (formerly Rhone-Poulenc and Hoechst/AgrEvo) may increase Bayer's 2002 sales to over US$6 billion. Read More

Farmer, environmental, indigenous, and consumer groups will stage protests and hold press conferences across North and South America the week of April 10-17 -- launching a Continental Campaign Against Genetically Engineered Corn. Read More

Nature magazine's flip-flop today over the testing protocols involved in determining GM maize contamination in Mexico is just the latest in a string of absurdities as the scientific community struggles over what to do as genetically-modified germplasm invades the genetic homelands of the world's food supply. Read More

From golden rice to anti-viral tomatoes, is the biotech industry's third generation good medicine or good marketing? And, activists ask, what are the environmental consequences? Read More

India said on Wednesday it had allowed production of three genetically modified cotton hybrids by a private company which has U.S. biotechnology giant Monsanto as its partner Read More

Some 300 members of Brazil's Landless Peasants' Movement (MST) took over an estate belonging to an associate of the country's president in the state of Sao Paulo Monday, organization spokesmen said. Read More

Mexican farmers say their crops are contaminated by GM corn. At stake: their harvest, native seeds and very livelihood. Read More

Negotiations on the world's first international tobacco control treaty, The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, are being held in Geneva, Switzerland, March 18-23, 2002. This is an excellent opportunity for public health and tobacco control advocates to voice their concerns over the Bush Administration's attempts to weaken the treaty. Read More

Tobacco giant Philip Morris is undergoing a PR makeover. This Greenwash Award says the public won't be fooled. Read More