Protecting native maize diversity is one of the key arguments behind Mexico’s constitutional ban on genetically modified corn cultivation. Read the full article in “The Scientist”: https://www.the-scientist.com/scientists-divided-on-mexico-s-genetically-modified-corn-ban-73114
Forty years of genetic engineering (GE) have led to a host of new products and a recent surge in new techniques, but in agriculture and various other fields of application the level of insight into the effects of GE on organisms and ecosystems has progressed much less. The claims about the potential benefits and possibilities … Read more
Recommendations and requests – a call to actionA pro-forma public consultation period in México of requests for commercial-scale planting of GM maize has just finished as the last procedural hurdle on the path to approval, despite all previous efforts to convey. We conclude that the potential impacts threaten the right to maize as a vital … Read more