The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
Four U.S. lawmakers joined with more than 200 food companies, organic farming groups, health and environment organizations and other groups on Thursday to urge President Barack Obama to require manufacturers to label food products that contain genetically engineered ingredients. The groups delivered a letter to the president dated January 16 …
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Monsanto Co's biotech seed patents on Monday, dealing a blow to a group of organic farmers and other activists trying to stop the biotech company from suing farmers if their fields contain a few plants containing the company's genetically modified traits. The Organic Seed Growers …
Three of the world's largest agrochemical companies have filed a lawsuit in Hawaii to block a law enacted on the island of Kauai in November to limit the planting of biotech crops and the use of pesticides. DuPont, Syngenta and Agrigenetics Inc, a company affiliated with the Dow AgroSciences unit …
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued an interim order to the government to prohibit imports of genetically modified (GM) seeds including those supplied by Monsanto, a US- based chemical and agricultural biotechnology company. The newfangled seeds can be used for growing crops only once, and cannot be reproduced unlike regular …
Britain's farm minister called on the European Union to approve a strain of genetically modified maize in a vote later this month, saying such a move was supported by scientific evidence. "If approval is granted ... then it will be the first GM food crop authorised for planting by the …
New Delhi : In a signal that the stalemate over the policy on genetically modified (GM) crops could end soon with the change of guard at the ministry of environment and forests, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) is likely to take a call on over 50 applications for field …
Environment Minister Veerappa Moily and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar are learnt to have agreed that a joint affidavit should be filed in the Supreme Court, asking that field trials of genetically modified (GM) crops be allowed, albeit with “stringent conditions”. The line taken by Moily, who met Pawar on Thursday …
Govt. committee headed by Cabinet Secretary readies draft affidavit If the Environment Ministry relents, the government will intend slamming the Supreme Court’s Technical Expert Committee (TEC) on genetically modified (GM) crop regulations. The draft affidavit prepared jointly by the Ministries of Agriculture and Science to be submitted to the court, …
Apprehensions of various sections must be allayed: M.S. Swaminathan In matters relating to genetically modified (GM) food crops, the government should ‘hasten cautiously,’ said eminent agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan. He was speaking on the sidelines of a visit to the Wheat Breeding Research Station of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute …
The government’s attempts to get the Environment Ministry to support field trials have failed. The government’s attempts to persuade the Environment Ministry to accept the Agriculture, and Science and Technology Ministries’ views in favour of immediately going ahead with field trials of genetically modified (GM) food crops have failed so …
The government’s attempts to get the Environment Ministry to support field trials have failed. The government’s attempts to persuade the Environment Ministry to accept the Agriculture, and Science and Technology Ministries’ views in favour of immediately going ahead with field trials of genetically modified (GM) food crops have failed so …
A writ was filed in the Supreme Court on Sunday seeking the court’s intervention to prevent the import of genetically modified (GM) seeds developed by Monsanto Company, a USA-based chemical and agricultural biotechnology company. Advocate Arjun Aryal, who filed the writ, has maintained that GM seeds hamper local verities of …
New minister to allow field trials, reversing stand of predecessors Ramesh and Natarajan Environment Minister Veerappa Moily is expected to cast his vote in favour of allowing genetically modified (GM) food crops in the country, overturning the position of his immediate predecessors — Jayanthi Natarajan and Jairam Ramesh. Moily’s support …
Supporters of genetically-modified (GM) crops are likely to draw the Supreme Court’s notice on the retraction by the Food and Chemical Toxicology Journal of the only study on adverse effects of GM corn to justify their case for allowing field trials in the country. The Supreme Court will resume hearing …
With Ramesh and Natarajan ousted, many fear the MoEF may go back to being a puppet ministry Is the suspected expulsion of Jayanthi Natarajan from the environment portfolio for purportedly halting projects worth Rs 10 lakh crore a step back from the nascent effort made by the UPA government to …
Vandana Shiva, a renowned environmentalist, has said the genetically modified organism (GMO) is not inventions but the genetic contamination that destroys ecology, diversity and resilience of local crops. Delivering lecture on Seed Freedom and Food Freedom in Times of Globalisation at Mahesh Chandra Regmi Lecture series in the Capital on …
Vikhe Patil wanted a public hearing to be held before clearing the trials Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan overruled reservations expressed by the State’s Agriculture Minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil in clearing no objection certificates (NOC) for “confined” field trials of genetically modified crops in the state, The Hindu has learnt. …
Nobel laureate Venkataraman ‘Venki’ Ramakrishnan on Monday came down heavily on those opposed to genetic modification of agricultural crops. In an exclusive interview to The Hindu , he said there was definitely a need to be careful while dealing with GM crops with proper regulatory mechanism, but one should not …
Contrary to the perception that young farmers are abandoning active farming, the survey conducted by the Indian Society for Cotton Improvement (ISCI) demonstrates that Bt cotton technology has attracted young farmers to cotton farming in the country. "More than 50% of respondent Bt cotton farmers were from the lower middle …
A fierce public debate over GM food exposes concerns about America. Of the many thousands of usually small protests that break out in China every year, few relate to national policy. Many consider the risk of challenging the central government too great. But the entrance to the agriculture ministry is …
